AN ACT TO PREVENT THE FAILURE OF MILITARY JUSTICE, TO AUTHORIZE THE SWEARING OF WITNESSES BEFORE A MILITARY INVESTIGATION, AND TO PUNISH PERJURIES THEREIN COMMITTED.

• Number: Act No. 1562
• Sections: 4

Section 1

SECTION 1. Any officer or clerk of any of the Departments lawfully detailed to investigate frauds on, or attempts to defraud, the Government, or any irregularity or misconduct of any officer or agent of the United States, and any officer of the Army detailed to conduct any investigation, and the recorder, and, if there be none, Administration of the presiding officer of any military board appointed for such purpose, shall have authority to administer an oath to any witness attending to testify or depose in the course of such investigation.

Section 2

SEC. 2. Any witness so testifying, who shall willfully, corruptly and falsely testify as to any material fact relative to such investigation shall be guilty of perjury, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished with a penalty of arresto mayor in its maximum degree to presidio correccional in its medium degree and a fine of from six hundred and twenty-five pesetas to six thousand two hundred and .fifty pesetas.

Section 3

SEC. 3. The public good requiring the speedy enactment of this bill, the passage of the same is hereby expedited in accordance with section two of "An Act prescribing the order of procedure by the Commission in the enactment of laws," passed September twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred.

Section 4

SEC. 4. This Act shall take effect, on its passage.

Enacted, November 10, 1906.