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[CITE: 50USC211]

 
                   TITLE 50--WAR AND NATIONAL DEFENSE
 
                        CHAPTER 13--INSURRECTION
 
Sec. 211. Investigations to detect and prevent frauds and abuses

    It shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury, from time to 
time, to institute such investigations as may be necessary to detect and 
prevent frauds and abuses in any trade or transactions which may be 
licensed between inhabitants of loyal States and of States in 
insurrection. And the agents making such investigations shall have power 
to compel the attendance of witnesses, and to make examinations on oath.

(R.S. Sec. 5307.)

                          Codification

    R.S. Sec. 5307 derived from act July 2, 1864, ch. 225, Sec. 10, 13 
Stat. 377.


                            Cross References

    Authority of any employee of any Department detailed to investigate 
frauds on the Government, or any official misconduct, to administer 
oaths to witnesses, see section 303 of Title 5, Government Organization 
and Employees.
