An Act to amend title 35 of the United States Code to permit a written declaration to be accepted in lieu of an oath, and for other purposes
PL 88-292 (S.2040), enacted 03/26/1964

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PUBLIC LAW 88-293-MAR. 26, 1964 
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Public Law 88-292 
AN ACT 
March 26, 1964 
To amend title 35 of the United States Code to i>ennit a written declaration 
[s. 2040] 
to be accepted in lieu of an oath, and for other purposes. 
Patent office 
62 Stat. 749. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
Cnited States of America 
in Congress assembled, That title 35, ^
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I'nited States Code, is amended by adding the following new sec- ^"^oeciarafions in 
tions after section 24: 
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"§ 25. Declaration in lieu of oath 
•'(a) The Commissioner may by rule prescribe that any docu-
ment to be filed in the Patent Office and which is required by 
any law, rule, or other regulation to be under oath may be sub-
scribed to by a written declaration in such form as the Commissioner 
may prescribe, such declaration to be in lieu of the oath otherwise 
required. 
"(b) Whenever such written declaration is used, the document 
must warn the declarant that willful false statements and the like 
are punishable by line or imprisonment, or both (18 U.S.C. 1001). 
"§ 26. Effect of defective execution 
"Any document to be filed in the Patent Office and which is required 
by any law, rule, or other regulation to be executed in a specified 
manner may be provisionally accepted by the Commissioner despite 
a defective execution, provided a properly executed document is sub-
mitted within such time as may be prescribed." 
SEC. 2. The analysis of chapter 2 of title 35, United Sta4;es Code, 
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immediately preceding section 21, is amended to read as follows: 
"Sec. 
"21. Day for taking action falling on Saturday, Sunday, or holiday. 
"22. Printing of papers filed. 
"23. Testimony in Patent Oflice cases. 
"24. SubiK)enas, witnesses. 
"25. Declaration in lieu of oath. 
•'26. Effect of defective execution." 
Approved March 26, 1964. 
Public Law 88-293 
AN ACT 
March 26, 1964 
To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to make water available for a per- 
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manei>t pool for fish and wildlife and recreation purposes at Cochiti Reservoir 
from the San Juan-Chama unit of the Colorado River storage project. 
Cochiti Reser-
voir. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assemJ)ledj That the proviso 
to subdivision (e) of the conditions applicable to the project for "water for recre-
improvement of the Rio Grande Basin authorized by section 203 of the ationai purposes 
Flood Control Act of 1960 (Public Law 86-645; 74 Stat. 493), is 
hereby supplemented to authorize, for conservation and development 
of fish and wildlife resources and for recreation, approximately fifty 
thousand acre-feet of water for the initial filling of a permanent pool 
of one thousand two hundred surface acres in Cochiti Reservoir, and 
thereafter sufficient water annually to offset the evaporation from 
such area, to be made available by the Secretary of the Interior from 
water diverted into the Rio Grande Basin by the works authorized by 
section 8 of the Act of June 13,1962 (Public I^w 87-^83, 76 Stat. 97), gi^tt-Tisvv!^''''' 
subject to the conditions specified in sections 8,12,13,14, and 16 of said 6i5xx. 
Act. An appropriate share of the costs of said works shall be reallo-