Source: http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/33/924?quicktabs_8=2
Timestamp: 2013-12-10 15:50:57
Document Index: 529896631

Matched Legal Cases: ['§ 924', '§ 924', '§ 924', '§ 24', '§ 32', '§ 127']

33 USC § 924 - Witnesses | Title 33 - Navigation and Navigable Waters | U.S. Code | LII / Legal Information Institute
USC › Title 33 › Chapter 18 › § 924	prevnext
33 USC § 924 - Witnesses
No person shall be required to attend as a witness in any proceeding before a deputy commissioner at a place outside of the State of his residence and more than one hundred miles from his place of residence, unless his lawful mileage and fee for one day’s attendance shall be first paid or tendered to him; but the testimony of any witness may be taken by deposition or interrogatories according to the rules of practice of the Federal district court for the judicial district in which the case is pending (or of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia if the case is pending in the District).
(Mar. 4, 1927, ch. 509, § 24,44 Stat. 1437; June 25, 1936, ch. 804, 49 Stat. 1921; June 25, 1948, ch. 646, § 32(b),62 Stat. 991; May 24, 1949, ch. 139, § 127,63 Stat. 107.)
As originally enacted, this section contained a reference to the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia. Act June 25, 1936, substituted “the district court of the United States for the District of Columbia” for “the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia”, and act June 25, 1948, as amended by act May 24, 1949, substituted “United States District Court for the District of Columbia” for “district court of the United States for the District of Columbia”.