5. Publications

(1) The following price lists of publications obtainable from the Superintendent of Documents may be secured upon application, addressed to "The Superintendent of Documents, Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C."

(a) No. 15. Geological Survey.

(b) No. 20. Public Domain-Land laws and decisions, homesteading, railroad land grants.

(c) No. 24. Indians-Anthropology, mounds, antiquities, and other Ethnology Bureau publications, Indian Office reports, etc.

(d) No. 31. Education-American and foreign school systems, libraries, playgrounds, agricultural and vocational schools.

(e) No. 32. Insular Possessions (Philippines, Hawaii, Porto Rico, Guam, Samoa, Virgin Islands), Cuba and Panama Canal.

(f) No. 35. Geography and Explorations-Includes natural wonders, scenery, and national parks.

(j) No. 45. Roads-Making and maintaining roads; dust preventives, and road-building rocks.

(k) No. 53. Maps-List of government maps by various bureaus, with directions for obtaining them.

(1) No. 58. Mines-Mining, mineral resources, fuel testing, explosives, gasoline, petroleum, iron mines, and coal.

(m) No. 60. Alaska-Mineral and agricultural resources, coal lands, geology, water supply, seal fisheries, Eskimos, and all other available material.

(n) Annual Reports of Secretary.

(0) Hawaii. Governor's Annual Reports.

(p) Porto Rico. Departmental Annual Reports.

(q) Alaska. Governor's Annual Report.

(2) See Checklist of Public Documents, 1790-1909, pp. 426-557.

(3) Persons desiring to be informed regarding all government publications should obtain the Monthly Catalogue of United States Public Documents, which is sold by the Superintendent of Documents, Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C., for 50 cents a year; foreign subscriptions, 75 cents a year.

(4) Information regarding the publications of the various states may be obtained from the Monthly List of State Publications, which may be purchased from the Superintendent of Documents for $1 per year; foreign subscriptions, $1.25.

(5) Memorandum History of Department of the Interior, 1913. Government Printing Office.

(6) The decisions of the Department of the Interior relating to public lands and pensions may be purchased from the Superintendent of Documents, Government Printing Office. The advance sheets of the Land Decisions and Pension. Decisions are sold for $1 per volume for each series, payable in advance. A price list of the bound volumes will be forwarded by the Superintendent of Documents. These publications are not available for free distribution.

6. Communications

All correspondence and remittances should be sent to the proper bureau or office, as indicated by "Organization" and "Activities," supra, except such as should go to the Secretary of the Interior, Washington, in connection with his duties in relation to Hawaii and Alaska, and to matters of appeal.

7. Recognition of Agents, Attorneys, and Other Persons to Represent Claimants Before the Department of the Interior and the Bureaus Thereof

The following statutes relate to the recognition of attorneys and agents for claimants before this department:

(a) "That the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe rules and regulations governing the recognition of agents, attorneys, or other persons representing claimants before his department, and may require of such persons, agents, and attorneys, before being recognized as representatives of claimants, that they shall show that they are of good moral character and in good repute, possessed of the necessary qualifications to enable them to render such claimants valuable service, and otherwise competent to advise and assist such claimants in the presentation of their claims and such Secretary may, after notice and opportunity for a hearing, suspend or exclude from further practice before his department any such person, agent, or attorney shown to be incompetent, disreputable, or who refuses. to comply with the said rules and regulations, or who shall with intent to defraud. in any manner deceive, mislead, or threaten any claimant, or prospective claimant, by word, circular, letter, or by advertisement.43

(b) As to the oath required and the ineligibility of certain classes of persons, see "Recognition of Attorneys," etc., under General Accounting Office.

(c) Regulations.-Under the authority conferred upon the Secretary of the Interior by the fifth section of the Act of July 4, 1884, the following regulations are promulgated for the guidance of the various bureaus and offices:

(1) Any person who is an attorney at law in good standing and a citizen of the United States, or has declared his intention to become such a citizen, may be admitted to practice as an attorney in and may be recognized as the representative of claimants before the Department of the Interior and its several bureaus by presenting for that privilege his satisfactory application containing recitals as to the following facts:

(a) The applicant's full name, age, and permanent post office address; (b) the date on which he was first admitted to practice before any court and the name and place of location of such court; (c) the name and place of location of the last court before which he was admitted or enrolled, and the name and location of the court before which he has lately most actively practiced; (d) the name of the executive department or bureau of the federal government, if any, in which he has been admitted to practice or in which he has been denied admission to practice, and the date of such admission or denial; (e) whether he has ever been disbarred or suspended or excluded from practice, and if so, the grounds on which he was disbarred, suspended, or excluded, and the dates of his disbarment,

43 Act July 4, 1884, § 5 (23 Stat. 101 [Comp. St. § 684]).

suspension, or exclusion and readmission to practice; (f) the name and location of the court, courts, or executive department by which his disbarment, suspension, or exclusion, and readmission were ordered; and (g) the name of the office or employment, if any, which the applicant holds or has under the government of the United States at the date of his application for admission, or has theretofore so held or had, if any, and the date and the cause of his separation from such former office or employment.

(2) Any attorney at law whose application for admission to practice is pending before the Department of the Interior or any of its bureaus may, at the discretion of the officer before whom it is pending, secure the right to enter his appearance in any proper matter pending for adjudication by such department or bureau, and continuously thereafter and until final adjudication thereof exercise. all the rights and privileges of an admitted attorney by presenting his application therefor to the Secretary of the Interior or to the head of the bureau before which such matter is pending.

(3) Any competent person who is a citizen of the United States, or who has declared his intention to become such a citizen, and who is not an attorney at law, may be admitted to practice as an agent in, and may be recognized as the representative of claimants before the Department of the Interior and all its bureaus by presenting his satisfactory application, under oath, for that privilege containing recitals as to the following facts:

(3a) The applicant's full name, age, present occupation, permanent post office address, and his occupation during each of the preceding 10 years; (3b) a statement as to whether he has theretofore been admitted to practice or denied admission to practice before any executive department or bureau of the federal government, and if so, the name of such department and the date of his admission or denial; (3c) whether he has ever been disbarred or suspended or excluded from practice as such agent, and if so, the grounds on which he was disbarred, suspended, or excluded, the date of his disbarment, suspension, or exclusion, and the name of the department by which the same was ordered; (3d) the name of any office or employment, if any, which the applicant holds or has under the government of the United States at the date of his application for admission, or has theretofore so held or had, if any, and the date and cause of his separation from such former service or employment; (3e) a brief statement of the applicant's educational qualifications and knowledge of the laws administered by said department and its bureaus; and (3f) the names and post office addresses of five reputable persons who have an intimate knowledge of the applicant's character and qualifications.

(4) Each application for admission as attorney must be accompanied by and have attached thereto, in addition to the oath prescribed by section 1757, Revised Statutes, a duly executed and authenticated certificate from the clerk of the court or courts named in such application, stating that the applicant is a person of good moral character and in good repute, and that he has been and is duly admitted to practice in the court of which he is the clerk, and that the applicant is at that time an attorney in good standing therein; and each applicant for admission as an agent must furnish and attach to his application as a part thereof, and in addition to the oath prescribed by section 1757, Revised Statutes, supra,

a certificate signed by a judge of a court of record stating that the applicant is a person of good moral character and in good repute, possessed of the necessary qualifications to enable him to render claimants valuable service, and otherwise competent to advise and assist claimants in presenting their claims before the Department of the Interior and its bureaus.

(5) All applications for admission to practice must be addressed to the Secretary of the Interior and be filed with the head of the bureau before which the applicants named therein expect most frequently to appear; and the officer with whom any such application is filed will, after such consideration and investigation as he may deem necessary, forward such application, together with such report and recommendation thereon as the facts, in his judgment, warrant to the said Secretary for his consideration and action thereon.

(6) The Secretary of the Interior, or the head of any bureau with whom any application for admission to practice is filed, may require the applicant named therein to furnish such other evidence or statement in support thereof as he may deem advisable, and may make such investigation, or cause such investigation to be made as may in his judgment be necessary to enable him to determine the proper action to be taken on such application; and favorable action will not be taken on any such application until after the applicant named therein shall have furnished such additional evidence or statement as may be required of him.

(7) Firms of agents or attorneys, as such, will not be permitted to practice before the department, or recognized as having the right to appear before it, or any bureau or office thereof, in any proceedings or matter involving the services of an agent or attorney, and except in the Pension Bureau, in the prosecution of any matter by any such firm, every pleading, brief, motion, or other paper or communication shall be signed individually by one or more duly qualified members thereof, and such signature shall be considered as a certificate by such agent or attorney that he has read the papers so signed by him; that upon the instructions laid upon him regarding the case there is good ground for the same; that no scandalous matter is inserted therein; and that it is not interposed for delay. (8) No person holding any office or place of trust or profit under the government of the United States will be permitted to appear as an attorney or agent for the claimant in any case against the United States; nor shall any person who has, within two years next preceding his admission to practice before the department, been employed in any of the executive departments of the government be permitted to appear as attorney or agent of the claimant in any case involving the prosecution of a money demand against the United States, unless the case in which he appears shall have been presented after his retirement from such service. No attorney will be recognized or heard as counsel in any case in the consideration and disposition of which he has directly participated, in any capacity, during his connection with the department.

(9) No officer authorized to receive final proofs, or to officiate in the preparation and execution of applications and affidavits for entry of public lands, will be permitted to appear for and represent the claimant in any case pending before the department, the General Land Office, or any district land office in which he shall have rendered such official service.

(10) Authority to appear in and practice before the department includes au