298 LAWS APPLICABLE TO DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



United States, * * * shall have authority to administer an oath 

 to any witness attending to testify or depose in the course of such 

 investigation. 



This section is amended to read as above bv act March 2, 1901, c. 809, 

 8. 3, 31 Stat. 951, and act Febrnai-j- 13, 1911, c. 43, 36 Stat. 898. 



REV. ST. SEC. 1778. 



Taking oaths, acknowledgments, etc. 



Sec. 1778. In all cases in which, under the laws of the United 

 States, oaths or acknowledgments may now be taken or made before 

 any justice of the peace of any State or Territory, or in the District 

 of Columbia, they may hereafter be also taken or made by or before 

 any notary public duly appointed in any State, district, or Territory, 

 or any of the commissioners of the circuit courts, and, when certified 

 under the hand and official seal of such notary or commissioner, shall 

 have the same force and effect as if taken or made by or before such 

 justice of the peace. 



ACT AUGUST 13, 1894, c. 282. An act relative to recognizances, stipnlations, 

 bond.s, !uul iindertalviujjs, and to allow certain corporations to be accepted 

 as surety thereon. (28 Stat. 279.) 



That whenever any recognizance, stipulation, bond, or undertaking 

 conditioned for the faithful performance of any duty, or for doing 

 or refraining from doing anything in such recognizance, stipulation, 

 bond, or undertaking sj^ecified, is by the laws of the United States 

 recjuired or permitted to be given with one surety or with two or 

 more sureties, the execution of the same or the guaranteeing of the 

 performance of the condition thereof shall be sufficient when executed 

 or guaranteed solely by a corporation incorporated under the laws of 

 the United States, or of any State having power to guarantee the 

 fidelity of persons holding positions of public or private trust, and to 

 execute and guarantee bonds and undertakings in judicial proceed- 

 ings : Provided^ That such recognizance, stipulation, bond, or under- 

 taking be approved by the head of department, * * * officer, 

 lH)ard, or body executive, * * * required to approve or accept 

 the same. But no officer or person having the approval of any bond 

 shall exact that it shall be furnished by a guarantee company or by 

 any particular guarantee company. 



Act August 13, 1894, c. 282, s. 1, 28 Stat. 279. 



ACT AUGUST 5. 1909, c. 7. (36 Stat. 118.) 



Premium on surety bonds for officers or employees, limited; no payment of 

 premium, etc., by Government. 



Until otherwise nrovidod by law no bond shall be accepted from 

 any surety or bonding company for any officer or employee of the 

 United States which shall cost more than thirty-five per centum in 

 excess of tiie rate of premium charged for a like bond during the 

 cak'iidar year nineteen hundroil ami iy\^^\\i'. Provided^ That here- 

 after the United States shall not pay any part of the premium or 

 other cost of furnishing a l)on(l recjuired by law or otherwise of any 

 officer or employee of tiie United States. 



Act Aiigust n, 1909, c. 7, 36 Slat. 125. 

 Tills Is a paragraph of the urgent deficiency appropriation act for the 

 fiscal year 1909. cited above. 



