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14 Copp's Land Owner 1 (1887-1888)

handle is hein.journals/coplndow18 and id is 1 raw text is: COPP'S LAND OWNER. VOL. XIV. WASHINGTON, D. C., APRIL 1, 1887. No. 1. SEE Table of Contents on second page of cover. OFFICE OF Copp's LAND OWNER is now at No. 822 8th Street, N. W., within two squares of the General Land Office. Do you need any of Copp's plats or plat books? THE 21st volume of the Court of Claims reports, just issued. can be had for $2.50 by addressing .the Land Owner. HAVE you Copp's new books? See ad- vertisement of List of Mines, 10,000 names. WE have obtained a few copies of vol. 4, Land Decisions, price $4.00. VOLUME V., LAND DECISIONS. We have made arrangements with the Government Printer by which we can send to subscribers Volume V. of the offi- cial Land Decisions just as it comes from the press, each week or every two weeks. The entire expense to subscribers will be $2.00. Send on )-our money at once. We. have an al)propriate temporary binder (Von Laer's patent) ready for this publication. Price'$2.00. INDEX TO VOLS. 1 TO 9. This book is now ready for delivery. It contains 203 pages, price $2.00. The Table of Cases takes 52 pages; Acts of Congress cited and construed, 10 pages; Circular Instructions, 4 pages; Court De- cisions, 3 pages; Homesteads, 7 pages; Laws of Congress, 5 pages; Lodes, Mines, and Placers, 7 pages; Patents, 4 pages.; Pre-emptions, 5 pages; Railroads, 4 pages; Surveys, 6 pages; Timber- Culture, 4 pages; Widow, Wife, and Woman, 2 pages. PORTERFIELD WARRANT. For sale, one PORTERFIELD Warrant or Scrip, 40 acres. Bv F. M. Heaton, Lock Box 44, Washington, D. C. HON. H. G. HANKS, State mineralogist, Sacramento, California, has the Land Owner's thanks for his interesting sixth annual report. ATTENTION is called to the card of Lamar & Zachry on front page. EXLINE & MECHLINO, of Lamar, Colo- rado, favor the Land Owner with their printed brief in Todd Knepple's case, in- volving Osage Land Entry as exhausting pre-emption right. SECRETARY LAMAR has won the esteem of the Washington land attorneys by his recent decisions in the Lamar and Heaton cases. But there is another side to this matter. Commissioner Sparks is held re- sponsible for the safe keeping of the offi- cial records and the protection of the clerks. If attorneys are allowed to come and go as they please and examine papers without leaving any memorandum of so do- ing, the Secretary should see to it that the Commissioner's recommendations for the disbarral of dishonorable attorneys are promptly acted upon. Fully a year and a half ago Commissioner Sparks asked the disbarral of a notorious rascal who was proved to have swindled his client. For some mysterious reason no action has yet been taken, and this fellow con- tinues to advertise himself as a land at- torney under this reform administration. PRACTICE. MAX FaOS Attorne --Admission-Dibarment. - Until an attorney is admitted to practice before the land department, he cannot be disbarred and .he should not be recognized as an attorney in land cases. ACTING SECRETARY MULDROW to Commissioner Sparks, February 26, 1887. Herewith are returned the papers which accompanied your recommendation that Max Frost, of Santa Fe, New Mexico, be disbarred from practice as attorney or agent before your office and local land offices. It appears that prior to and at the* date of passage of the act of July 4, 1884, rela- tive to the recognition of attorneys and other persons to represent claimants be- fore this Department, Mr. Frost held the position of Register of the Land Office at Santa Fe. After leaving that office he could not properly be recognized in any matter before the Department or any of its bureaus or offices without having com- plied with the regulations established lty the Secretary of the Interior in pursuance of the statute above mentioned. He has never been admitted to practice as pro- vided in such regulations, and until your office is duly notified of his admission it will be proper for you to refuse to recog- nize him as agent or attorney before the General Land Office and local land oflices. This would seem to be sufficient to ac-. complish the purpose contemplated in your recommendation, without requiring the irregular action on the part of the De- partment of disbarring an attorney who had never been admitted to practice. It may be added that Mr. Frost has made formal application to the Depart- ment for admission to practice, which has not been complied with in view of the charges against him in your office; and in consideration of the information contained in a telegram received by you on the 24th instant from a special agent of your office (and informally submitted by you to the Department) that said Frost had been convicted of receiving illegal fees and sentenced by the court to fine and im- prisonment, favorable action upon his ap- plication will not be taken. t. J. WASGATT. Attorney-A' is o---Disbarment.-Until an at- torney is admitted to practice before the Land Department, he cannot be disbarred, and he should not be recognized as an attorney in land cases. ACTING SECRETARY MULDROW tO Commzssioner Sparks, March 19, 1887. Your letter has been received in which you recommend the disbarment of A. J. Wasgatt; of Clifton, Dakota Territory upon charges growing out of his practice before the land office at Huron, Dakota. It does not appear from the records of this Department that the said Wasgatt has ever been admitted to practice as Agent or Attorney under the regulations of the Secretary of the Interior, estab- lished in pursuance of Section 5, Act of July 4, 1884, relating to the subject, and it is not stated in your letter that lie has been recognized as Agent or Attorney be- fore your office and Local Land Offices in accordance with any 'regulation of your office in force prior to the passage of the act above mentioned. Under these circumstances it is not ne- cessary to consider the subject of disbar! ment. Under the regulations approved by the Secretary as of this date respecting the recognition of Attorneys before the Local Land Offices, it will be necessary for the party above mentioned to make applica- tion for admission to practice before he can be further recognized, and the charges referred to in your letter should be con- sidered in connection with such applica- tion.

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