NAVIGATION AND NAVIGABLE WATERS
 
         CHAPTER 18--LONGSHORE AND HARBOR WORKERS' COMPENSATION
 
Sec. 924. Witnesses

    No person shall be required to attend as a witness in any proceeding 
before a deputy commissioner at a place outside of the State of his 
residence and more than one hundred miles from his place of residence, 
unless his lawful mileage and fee for one day's attendance shall be 
first paid or tendered to him; but the testimony of any witness may be 
taken by deposition or interrogatories according to the rules of 
practice of the Federal district court for the judicial district in 
which the case is pending (or of the United States District Court for 
the District of Columbia if the case is pending in the District).

(Mar. 4, 1927, ch. 509, Sec. 24, 44 Stat. 1437; June 25, 1936, ch. 804, 
49 Stat. 1921; June 25, 1948, ch. 646, Sec. 32(b), 62 Stat. 991; May 24, 
1949, ch. 139, Sec. 127, 63 Stat. 107.)

                          Codification

    As originally enacted, this section contained a reference to the 
Supreme Court of the District of Columbia. Act June 25, 1936, 
substituted ``the district court of the United States for the District 
of Columbia'' for ``the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia'', and 
act June 25, 1948, as amended by act May 24, 1949, substituted ``United 
States District Court for the District of Columbia'' for ``district 
court of the United States for the District of Columbia''.