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B-56200 1 (1976-09-14)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadczi0001 and id is 1 raw text is: DECISION FILE: B-56200 MATTER OF: DIGEST: United States Court of Military Appeals * Use of Attorneys' Admission Fees United States Court of Military Appeals may retain admission fees collected from attorneys seeking to become members of its bar and use them for certificates of admission, maintenance of Court library, and other matters Court may designate. Since 1951 GAO has declined to raise objection to similar practice by other courts established by authority of Congress, and sees no basis to distinguish this Court in the interest of establishing uniform practice among such courts. The Acting Clerk of the United States Court of M1ilitary Appeals requested out opinion as to vhether the Court can receive and dis- burse admission fees collected from lawyers seeking admission before the Court, rather than depositing these funds in the United States Treasury as miscellaneous receipts. Contemplating that a portion of these admission fees would be used to pay for Certificates of Ad- mission, the Court would like to know whether funds not needed for Admission Certificates can be used to establish a fund to support the Court library and for such other purposes as the Court may designate. Since 1951 our office has declined to raise objection to the judicial practice of using part or all of attorneys admission fees to maintain court law libraries. In our decision of June 8, 1951, 3-56200, we held, with reference to the United States Circuit Courts of Appeals, that, considering certain Supreme Court decisions dis- cussed therein, together with the long-standing practice of the Courts of Appeals to retain admission fees for library and other purposes, and the fact that failure to deposit fees in the Treasury had been called to the attention of Congress, we would no longer question such use of admission fees * * * unless and until the Con- gress should take further action in the matter. This decision effectively overruled our earlier holding in 11 Comp. Gen. 372 (1932). S THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITEO STATES WASHINGTON. D. C, 20549 C ATE:SEP 141976

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