Chapter LII. to authorize Notaries Public to take and certify Oaths, Affirmations, and Acknowledgments in certain Cases
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Chap. LII.— An Act to authorize Notaries Public to take and certify Oaths, Affirmations, and Acknowledgments in certain Cases.Sept. 16, 1850. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That in all cases in Oaths, &c., made before notaries, to have the same force as if taken before justices of the peace. Perjury punishable as in other cases. which, under the laws of the United States, oaths, or affirmations, or acknowledgments may now be taken or made before any justice or justices of the peace of any State or Territory, such oaths, affirmations or acknowledgments may be hereafter also taken or made by or before any notary public duly appointed in any State or Territory, and, when certified under the hand and official seal of such notary, shall have the same force and effect as if taken or made by or before such justice or justices of the peace.
And all laws and parts of laws for punishing perjury, or subornation of perjury, committed in any such oaths or affirmations, when taken or made before any such justice of the peace, shall apply to any such offence committed in any oaths or affirmations which may be taken under this act before a notary public, or commissioner, as hereinafter named: *Provided always,* That on any trial for either of Proviso. these offences, the seal and signature of the notary shall not be deemed sufficient in themselves to establish the official character of such notary, but the same shall be shown by other and proper evidence.
Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That all the powers and authority Commissioners appointed by Circuit Courts, to exercise powers above defined. conferred in and by the preceding section of this act upon notaries public be, and the same are hereby, vested in, and may be exercised by, any commissioner appointed, or hereafter to be appointed, by any Circuit Court of the United States, under any act of Congress authorizing the appointment of commissioners to take bail, affidavits, or depositions, in causes pending in the courts of the United States.
Approved, September 16, 1850.