18 U.S.C. § 3493 : US Code - Section 3493: Deposition to authenticate foreign documents

Search 18 U.S.C. § 3493 : US Code - Section 3493: Deposition to authenticate foreign documents

The consular officer to whom any commission authorized under
section 3492 of this title is addressed shall take testimony in
accordance with its terms. Every person whose testimony is taken
shall be cautioned and sworn to testify the whole truth and
carefully examined. His testimony shall be reduced to writing or
typewriting by the consular officer taking the testimony, or by
some person under his personal supervision, or by the witness
himself, in the presence of the consular officer and by no other
person, and shall, after it has been reduced to writing or
typewriting, be subscribed by the witness. Every foreign document,
with respect to which testimony is taken, shall be annexed to such
testimony and subscribed by each witness who appears for the
purpose of establishing the genuineness of such document. When
counsel for all the parties attend the examination of any witness
whose testimony is to be taken on written interrogatories, they may
consent that oral interrogatories in addition to those accompanying
the commission may be put to the witness. The consular officer
taking any testimony shall require an interpreter to be present
when his services are needed or are requested by any party or his
attorney.