Oklahoma Code § 22-788

Title 22. Criminal Procedure: Execution of commission
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The commissioner, unless otherwise specially directed, may
execute the commission as follows:
1.  He must administer an oath to the witness that his answers
given to the interrogatories shall be the truth, the whole truth and
nothing but the truth.
2.  He must cause the examination of the witness to be reduced
to writing and subscribed by him.
3.  He must write the answers of the witness as nearly as
possible in the language in which he gives them, and read to him
each answer so taken down, and correct or add to it until it
conforms to what he declares is the truth.
4.  If the witness declines to answer a question, that fact,
with the reason assigned by him for declining, must be stated.
5.  If any papers or documents are produced before him, and
proved by the witness, they, or copies of them, must be annexed to
the deposition, subscribed by the witness, and certified by the
commissioner.
6.  The commissioner must subscribe his name to each sheet of
the deposition, with the papers and documents proved by the witness,

or copies thereof, to the commissioner, and must close it up under
seal and address it as directed by the endorsement thereon.
7.  If there be direction on the commission to return it by
mail, the commissioner must immediately deposit it in the nearest
post office.  If any other direction be made by the written consent
of the parties, or by the court or judge, to the commissioner as to
its return, the commissioner must comply with the directions.  A
copy of this section must be annexed to the commission.

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