Authorize oath administration for PWDC claims

Section 1 covers claim forms, affidavits, and other documents presented to or filed with the Philippine War Damage Commission.
Section 1 limits the exercise of authority to the oath administration needed for claim papers submitted to the Philippine War Damage Commission.
The Philippine War Damage Commission is identified as the body created by Public Law Numbered Three hundred and seventy, seventy-ninth Congress of the United States, approved April thirty, nineteen hundred and forty-six.

Section 1 provides that Commissioners, officers, or employees of the Philippine War Damage Commission and attorneys of the Legal Aid Office of the Department of Justice shall not collect any fee for their oath-administration services.
Section 1 permits the other officers and employees of the Government authorized under existing law to administer oaths to collect for each oath a fee of not more than fifty centavos.
Section 1 does not impose a fee limit on the authorized public school teachers and other public school officials within the fifty centavos fee cap language, except as reflected through the rule governing “officers and employees of the Government authorized under existing law.”

Section 1 prohibits requiring a documentary stamp on any claim papers, affidavits, or other documents submitted to or filed with the Philippine War Damage Commission.

Section 2 exempts the persons authorized to administer oaths from being required to keep or use a seal.
Section 2 exempts the persons authorized to administer oaths from being required to keep a register of their official acts when performing the oath-administration authority granted by Section 1.