Chapter 303. To authorize acting registers of United States land offices to administer oaths at any time in public land matters
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CHAP. 303.— An Act To authorize acting registers of United States land offices to administer oaths at any time in public land matters.May 17, 1926.[[H. R. 6239](/us/bill/69/hr/6239).][[Public, No. 231](/us/pl/69/231).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Public lands.Department employee acting as register of land office may administer oaths.Vol. 42, p. 208. That a qualified employee of the Department of the Interior who has been designated to act as register of any United States land office pursuant to the provisions of the Act of October 28, 1921, “An Act for the consolidation of the offices of register and receiver in certain eases and for other purposes” (Forty-second Statutes at Large, page 208), may at all times administer any oath required by law or the instructions of the General Land Office in connection with the entry or purchase of any tract of public land, but he shall not charge or receive, directly or indirectly, any compensation for administering such oath.
Approved, May 17, 1926.