Chapter 255.
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CHAP. 255.— An act in relation to the execution of declarations and other papers in pension claims.July 26, 1892. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Pensions. That declarations of pension Declarations may be made before any officer authorized to administer oaths.claimants shall be made before a court of record, or before some officer thereof having custody of its seal, or before some officer who, under the laws of his State, city or county, has authority to R.
S., sec. 4719. p. 919. amended.administer oaths for general purposes; and said officers are hereby fully authorized and empowered to administer and certify any oath or *Proviso*.affirmation relating to any pension or application therefor: *Provided*, That Certificate of official character to be filed.where such declaration or other papers are executed before an officer authorized as above but not required by the laws of his State to have and use a seal to authenticate his official acts, he shall file in the Pension Bureau a certificate of his official character, showing his official signature and term of office, certified by a clerk of a court of record or Recognized during term of office.other proper officer of the State as to the genuineness thereof; and when said certificate has been filed in the Bureau of Pensions his own certificate will be recognized during his term of office.
Sec. 2. That the Commissioner of Pensions may accept declarationsDeclarations made in foreign countries. and other papers of claimants residing in foreign countries made before a United States minister or consul or other consular officer, or before some officer of the country duly authorized to administer oaths for general purposes, and whose official character and signature shall be duly authenticated by the certificate of a United States minister or consul Declarations of Indians.or other consular officer; and declarations in claims of Indians may be made before a United States Indian agent.
Sec. 3 That any and all declarations or affidavits now on file in the Curing defective declarations, etc.Pension Bureau which are considered informal by reason of not having been executed in conformity to the laws heretofore in force covering such, and in which it is shown or may be hereafter shown by proper evidence that the same were executed by and before an officer who was duly authorized to administer oaths for general purposes at said date of execution, shall be accepted as formal as from date of tiling such declarations or affidavits.
Sec. 4. That all acts and parts of acts inconsistent with the provisionsRepeal. of this act are hereby repealed. Approved, July 26, 1892.