---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 656"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "656"
heading: "Agents; administering oaths and taking testimony"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/656"
units:
  - "Chapter 5 — Protection of Fur Seals and Other Fur-Bearing Animals"
---

# §656. Agents; administering oaths and taking testimony


The agents are empowered to administer oaths in all cases relating to the service of the United States, and to [take](/usc/16/3102.md?p=18) testimony in Alaska for the use of the Government in any matter concerning the public revenue.


## Source credit

(R.S. § 1976.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

R.S. § 1976 derived from act Mar. 5, 1872, ch. 31, § 3, 17 Stat. 35.