EXHIBIT A. [General Accounting Office. Office Comptroller General. Form 25.) APPLICATION OF INDIVIDUAL OR FIRM FOR ADMISSION TO PRACTICE BEFORE THE GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE. I member We and each of us are members except... from said court. 2.1 I am am of the bar of...................... ...and attach hereto certificate.. to that effect I we (Name 1) familiar with the laws, rules, and regulations of the General Accounting Office and qualified to act as the representative.. of others and render them valu are able service, particularly in matters relating to..... our because of my education, training, and business experience, which have been respectively as follows: (State in chronological order, giving dates.) I 3. We and each of us have never been rejected or suspended or disbarred from appearing as attorney or agents, or in any other representative capacity, before any branch of the Federal or any State Government or municipality, or court thereof, except...... been an officer or employee of the United States, except as follows: (State name of office or nature of employment and dates.).... I 5. have read and noted paragraph 5 of General Accounting Office Circular No. 3. We dated November 1, 1921, and particularly the following clause thereof: "The Comptroller General regards as unethical advertising in any form which represents the fact of enrollment as a solicitation for employment, and particularly any suggestion of acquaintance with officials of, or prior connection with, the Government of the United States." I 6. have made no previous application to be recognized as attorney.. or agent.. We before the General Accounting Office, except.. 'Paragraph 2 should be filled out only where the applicant is not a member of the bar of a court of record OATH. I We I we do solemnly swear (or affirm) that will support and defend the Constitution I of the United States, against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that will bear we I true faith and allegiance to the same; that take this obligation freely, without we I any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am we are we about to enter. So help God. (Residence or address.) me (Name of individual or firm.) (Name of member.) (Residence.) [By two persons not related to applicant and who have known him more than one year.] We hereby certify that we have known the within-named firm him respectively; that during all that time we have known as of good moral character and worthy of the trust and confidence of claimants them and of the General Accounting Office. (Name.) (Name.) Leave blank if a member of the bar. (Address.) (Address.) The attached application of for enrollment to be recognized as to represent others before the General Accounting Office has been examined, and after consideration it is recommended that the application de. Chairman. Committee on Enrollment and Disbarment General Accounting Office. Approved: Comptroller General. A corporation will not be admitted to practice before the General Accounting Office, but any officer of a corporation, or member of its staff, may enroll individually, provided he possesses the requisite qualifications for enrollment as set forth in General Accounting Office Circular No. 3. All members of a firm are required to join in the execution of an application made in the firm name. The enrollment of a firm also enrolls all of its members individually, but members of a firm may enroll individually regardless of whether or not the firm itself is enrolled. The enrollment of a firm does not give members of its staff, or others associated with it but not members, the right to practice before the General Accounting Office. To be admitted to practice such persons should make individual applications for enrollment. A firm having an alien member will not be admitted to practice as a firm. However, all members of such a firm who are qualified to take the oath of allegiance to the United States and to support and defend the Constitution, and who possess the other requisite qualifications for enrollment, may enroll individually. REQUESTS FOR COPIES OF PAPERS. [1922. Circular No. 4.] GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE, OFFICE OF COMPTROLLER GENERAL, The General Accounting Office will furnish other agencies of the Government copies of official documents and records in its custody where it clearly appears that such service is proper and necessary. Requests for copies have grown to such proportions and the cost of complying therewith is so great that to avoid a waste of funds and effort some restrictions must be imposed. Hereafter such copies will be furnished only on the written request of the head of a department or independent establishment or agency, setting forth in detail the need therefor and the purpose to be served. Requests should be addressed to the Comptroller General and decision as to the propriety of complying therewith on the showing made must rest with this office. J. R. MCCARL, Comptroller General. 7920°-22-Vol. 1- -51 PENSION OFFICE CHECKS-PAYMENT OF, WHERE PAYEES ARE DECEASED OR INCOMPETENT. [1922. Circular No. 5.] GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFfice, OFFICE OF THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL, Washington, D. C., April 25, 1922. Pension Office checks, the payees of which are deceased or incompetent, are classified for the purposes of the disposition of their proceeds as follows: PENSION CHECKS. 1. Checks drawn without vouchers, which bear underneath their number a letter or letters "A," or letter or letters "B," and which were delivered to the payees in person, or delivered prior to the death of the payees to anyone authorized to receive them for the payees. 2. Checks drawn without vouchers, which bear underneath their number the letter or letters "A" or letter or letters "B," and which were not delivered to the payees in person nor delivered prior to the death of the payees to anyone authorized to receive them for the payees. 3. Checks drawn with vouchers and which bear underneath their number a letter or letters "C." CIVIL SERVICE RETIREMENT CHECKS. 4. Checks for refundments from retirement fund; and checks to annuitants who die on or after the last day of the periods covered by the checks. 5. Checks to annuitants who die prior to last day of periods covered by the checks. PENSION AND CIVIL SERVICE RETIREMENT CHECKS. 6. Checks the payees of which are incompetent and for which payees committees or guardians of their estates have been appointed. CHECKS FOR WHICH APPLICATION FOR PROCEEDS SHOULD BE MADE TO COMPTROLLER GENERAL. Checks of Classes 1, 3, 4, and 6 should be forwarded directly to the Comptroller General of the United States, General Accounting Office, Washington, D. C., for the placing upon them of an authorization for the payment of their proceeds to the party entitled thereto as assets under the statutes of the State of the domicile of the deceased. The application for Classes 1, 3, and 4 should be by the executor or administrator of the estate of the deceased, or, if none, and the amount be not over $500, by the widow of the deceased, or other person claiming the proceeds as assets under the laws of his domicile, including the undertaker in the event the funeral expenses are a preferred claim by the laws of said domicile and the bill be unpaid. The application for Class 6 checks should be by the committee or guardian of the estate of the incompetent. EVIDENCE TO ACCOMPANY CHECKS FORWARDED TO COMPTROLLER GENERAL. Class 1 checks should be accompanied by a short certificate of letters testamentary or of administration, with a showing whether still in force and effect; or, if such letters have not been and will not be issued and the payee died intestate, and the amount involved be not over $500, by an affidavit executed on accompanying blank. In addition there must be a clear showing that the check was, in fact, delivered to the payee in person, or delivered prior to the death of the payee to some one authorized to receive it for the payee, giving dates of death and of delivery, and, in case where a short interval only elapsed between the date of the death and of the delivery, the hour of death and hour of delivery. Checks of classes 3 and 4 should be accompanied by the same evidence as in first paragraph of requirements for class 1 checks. That required by second paragraph for class 1 checks need not be furnished. Class 6 checks should be accompanied by a certificate of appointment of committee or guardian of estate of incompetent, with showing whether still in force and effect and that bond has been given and accepted, if one is required. CHECKS TO BE FORWARded to disBURSING CLERK, PENSION OFFICE. Class 2 checks should be forwarded to the disbursing clerk, Pension Office, Washington, D. C., for cancellation, and application should be made to the Commissioner of Pensions, Washington, D. C., for payment of their proceeds, or that part accruing to the pensioner from date of last payment to date of death, (1) to his widow, (2) to the pensioner's child or children under 16 years of age (except in the case of a dependent relative pensioner), or (3) to reimburse the person who bore the expense of the pensioner's last sickness and burial where the estate left by the decedent was insufficient to pay such expenses. Class 5 checks should be forwarded to the disbursing clerk, Pension Office, for cancellation. (Relating to employees of the General Accounting Office, and not of general information.) SATURDAY HALF-HOLIDAY, 1922. [Circular No. 7.] JUNE 10, 1922. (Relating to employees of the General Accounting Office, and not of general information.) CLASSIFICATION OF OBJECTS OF EXPENDITURE. [Bulletin No. 1.] (Not in appendix, being subject to modification from time to time.) MAY 11, 1922. WARRANTS AND CHECKS-PAYMENT OF WHERE PAYEES ARE DECEASED OR INCOMPETENT, OR WHERE ERROR IN NAME OR DESIGNATION. [1922. Bulletin No. 2.] GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE, Warrants checks drawn by the Treasurer of the United States upon warrants, and checks drawn by disbursing officers or agents of the United States, which can not be paid because of death of original payee, disqualification, or error in name or designation of, should be forwarded to the Comptroller General of the United States, General Accounting Office, Washington. D. C., without alteration or correction, for authorization for payment to the party ascertained to be entitled to the proceeds of the warrant or check upon its indorsement by such party in the usual manner. |