Chapter 65. to punish false swearing before trial boards of the Metropolitan police force and lire department of the District of Columbia, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 65.— An Act to punish false swearing before trial boards of the Metropolitan police force and lire department of the District of Columbia, and for other purposes.May 11, 1892. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,District of Columbia. Attendance of witnesses in police and fire department trials. That hereafter any trial board of the Metropolitan police force and of the fire department of the District of Columbia shall have power to issue subpoenas, attested in the name of the president of the Board of Commissioners of the District of Columbia, to compel before it the attendance of witnesses upon any 29 trial or proceedings authorized by the rules and regulations of the police force.
Sec. 2. That any willful and corrupt false swearing on the part ofPenalty for false swearing. any witness or person making deposition before any trial board mentioned in the preceding section as to any material fact in any proceedings, under the rules and regulations governing said police force, shall be deemed perjury, and shall be punished in the manner prescribed by law for such offense. Sec. 3. That if any witness, having been first personally summoned,Process to secure attendance. shall neglect or refuse to appear before any trial board mentioned in the first section of this act. then, on the fact being reported by the major and superintendent of police to one of the justices of the police court, it shall be the duty of that court to compel the attendance of such witness before such trial board in the same manner as witnesses are now compellable to appear before said court: *Provided*, That witnesses*Proviso*.
Witness fees. subpoenaed to appear before said trial boards, other than those employed by the District of Columbia, shall be entitled to the same fees as are now paid witnesses for attendance before the Supreme court of the District of Columbia. Approved, May 11, 1892.