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TABLE OF ATTORNEY FEES.

ALLOWED BY LAW.

In original claims allowed under

All general laws (except act June 27, 1890, act April 19, 1908,
and such acts as do not provide for payment of a fee), sec.
4, act July 4, 1884, authorizes a fee-

On properly executed articles of agreement, any amount
contracted for, not exceeding..

Without articles of agreement...

Act June 27, 1890 (sec. 4 of said act).
Act April 19, 1908 (sec. 2 of said act).

Supplemental claims

To allow for child by former marriage if filed by new attor

.$25 00

10 00

10 00

10 00

ney

10 00

To allow for helpless child

If named in original application, but new attorney pre-
sents claim....

10 00

If not so named, whether supplemental claim be filed by
new or original attorney.

.. 10 00

To allow for posthumous child, born after filing claim, unless
expressly exempted by mutual agreement between
claimant and attorney.

10 00

.. 10 00

Rerating or reissue to correct rate or date of commencement, if
filed by new attorney (11 P. D. 202)......
Reduction in rate of pension, for services rendered in preventing
(Secretary's decision, Dec. 27, 1900, case of Charles Hebel,
certificate No. 113,168).

Dropping pensioner's name from roll, for services rendered in
preventing (9 P. D. 236). ...

10 00

... 10 00

Renewal, restoration, removal of suspension, etc., "cases of difficulty and trouble" (sec. 4, act July 4, 1884), commissioner may recognize articles of agreement for not exceeding (8 P. D. 182)....

Restoration

Dropped for loss of title on testimony taken by a special exam-
iner showing that the disability or cause of death on account
of which pension was allowed did not originate in line of
duty, and in cases of dependent relatives whose names were
dropped, on like testimony, upon the ground of nondepend-
ence (act July 4, 1884)—

In claims under all general laws (except act June 27, 1890,
act April 19, 1908, and such acts as do not provide for
payment of a fee)—

On properly executed articles of agreement, any amount
contracted for, not exceeding
Without articles of agreement.

25 00

25 00

10 00

Under act June 27, 1890...

Under act April 19, 1908...

Where dropped under sec. 4719, R. S. (4 P. D. 405)

Increase claims

.$10 00

Mexican War, Jan. 5, 1893, and amendatory acts, in which fee

10 00

10 00

was not paid prior to September 20, 1902 (12 P. D. 505)... 10 00 In cases where increase is granted because of increase of the disability for which pension was originally allowed (act March 3, 1891)..

2.00

NOT PAYABLE ON ORDER OF COMMISSIONER OF PENSIONS,
BUT A MATTER OF CONTRACT BETWEEN CLAIMANT AND
ATTORNEY, SUBJECTING THE LATTER TO DISCIPLINARY
PROCEEDINGS IN THE EVENT OF EXTORTION OR UN-
REASONABLENESS.

Accrued pensions, act March 2, 1895, due deceased pensioners
(rule 26, practice): Attorney may collect 10 per cent of
accrued pension paid, but fee must not exceed...
Divided pensions, act March 3, 1899 (10 P. D. 403): Attorney
may collect reasonable fee, and in absence of abuse or
misconduct on his part justifying disbarment, Commis-
sioner of Pensions has no authority.

By law

CASES WHEREIN FEES ARE DENIED.

10 00

Act July 4, 1884, arrears of pension allowed by Congress subsequent to original grant.

No fee.

No fee.

Act March 19, 1886, increasing rates of pension to certain
widows..

Act August 5, 1892, granting pensions to Army nurses..
Act March 3, 1901, and act February 28, 1903, amending sec.
4708, R. S., giving pensionable status to certain remarried
widows...

No fee.

.... No fee.

Act February 6, 1907, granting pensions to certain survivors of the Mexican and Civil Wars..

No fee.

Act May 28, 1908, for services in introducing or securing the passage of a private act of Congress granting a pension.. No fee. By departmental construction or regulations:

Increase by operation of law, Secretary's decision, or bureau schedule ratings (ruling 124 and order 266).

No fee.

Claim filed by State agent or commissioner (7 P. D. 293)..
Wherein power of attorney only is filed (4 P. D. 356; 7 P.

No fee.

D. 517)......

No fee.

No fee.

Wherein no service is rendered (7 P. D. 517)...
Wherein attorney transmits only order for medical examina-
tion or reasons for claimant's failure to appear for such
examination (9 P. D. 375), unless in response to bureau
call

No fee.

Where guardian, as attorney, prosecutes claim of his ward,
or firm of attorneys of which guardian is a member, prose-
cutes such claim (rule 15, practice)....
Where no fund accrues by reason of allowance out of which
fee could be paid (8 P. D. 139; 11 P. D. 149)
Reissue to include new disability, if no increase (8 P. D.
139)
Rerating or reissue to correct rate or date of commence-
ment, if same attorney as in original claim (7 P. D. 359;
13 P. D. 75) ...
Securing new or duplicate pension certificate (8 P. D. 261).
Supplemental claims-

No fee.

No fee.

No fee.

No fee.

No fee.

To allow for child by former marriage if claim be filed by original attorney (7 P. D. 47; 16 P. D. 546). . . No fee. To allow for helpless child if child named as helpless in original declaration, to original attorney (9 P. D. 117).. No fee.

POSTAGE.

By order of May 26, 1891, attorneys may receive, from and after April 22, 1891, for postage in any one claim....

$0.50

ATTORNEYS RULES OF PRACTICE BEFORE THE BUREAU OF PENSIONS.

Rule 1. Authority to Prosecute Claims.-A person appearing of record in the Bureau of Pensions as having complied with the regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior for the recognition of agents or attorneys before the Department of the Interior will be held authorized to prosecute any claim for pension or bounty land, in which the law does not prohibit the payment of an attorney's fee, on filing a power of attorney from the claimant: Provided, however, that the Commissioner of Pensions, in his discretion, may recognize such person without compensation in any claim for pension or bounty land heretofore filed, or that may hereafter be filed, in which the law prohibits the payment of such fee.

Rule 2. Transfers of Attorneyship.-Transfers of attorneyship will be governed by the following rules:

(a) Transfers of attorneyship must be acknowledged before some officer authorized to administer oaths for general purposes in the presence of two witnesses who must sign their names to the instrument of transfer.

(b) In all transfers of attorneyship a separate slip must be filed for each claim transferred, showing its number, the name of the claimant, the name of the soldier or sailor, the service on which the claim is based, the name and address of the transferee, and an acknowledgment by the transferee of the transfer.

(c) A transfer not general in character, but of a limited number of claims, from one agent, attorney, or firm to another, must be accom

panied also by a schedule, alphabetically arranged, showing for each claim the data required on said slips.

(d) A transfer made by the legal representative of a deceased or incompetent agent or attorney must be accompanied by a duly authenticated certificate of an officer of the court having jurisdiction, showing the authority of such representative.

(e) The written consent of the claimant is necessary to entitle a transferee to recognition in an incomplete claim, the transfer of attor neyship in all such cases being subject to protest.

Rule 3. Consent to Assignment.-No agent or attorney shall have power to make a valid assignment of any claim in which he has been recognized, even with the written consent of the claimant, unless he is at the time of such assignment and of such consent in good standing before the Bureau of Pensions.

Rule 4. Power of Attorney-Execution.-No power of attorney purporting to be executed by a claimant will be recognized as good and valid unless the same is signed in the presence of two witnesses and acknowledged before an officer duly authorized to administer oaths for general purposes, whose official signature is certified under seal.

Rule 5. Articles of Agreement-Pension Claims-Execution.-No articles of agreement filed under the act of July 4, 1884, will be recognized as valid, and no fee will be paid thereunder, unless the claimant's signature thereto is witnessed by two attesting witnesses and acknowledged before some officer authorized to administer oaths for general purposes, whose official signature is certified under seal.

The attorney's acceptance of such agreement must also be executed before some officer duly authorized to administer oaths for general purposes, whose official signature is certified under seal.

Rule 6. Articles of Agreement-Pension Claims, Forms, Requirements.-Articles of agreement, to be recognized as valid by the Commissioner of Pensions, must be in duplicate and in the form prescribed by order of July 8, 1884, and have printed upon the reverse: "Notice to Claimant," "This agreement is permissible under the law, but not compulsory," and a copy of the act of July 4, 1884.

Rule 7. Articles of Agreement-Bounty Land Claims.-When a claim for bounty land has been allowed and the warrant issued, one approved copy of the articles of agreement will be forwarded to the agent or attorney of record and the other preserved in the files of the claim. The bounty land warrant will be forwarded direct to the party entitled to the possession thereof.

Rule 8. Postage. An agent or attorney may request and receive from a claimant sum not exceeding fifty cents for postage in the prosecution of any one claim, original or increase, but compliance with such request of the agent or attorney is optional with the claimant.

Agents and attorneys are not allowed to demand a sum for postage as a right, or to refuse to prosecute a claim where the request for postage is not complied with.

Rule 9. Articles of Agreement-Attorney to Stipulate Amounts Received. When in the adjudication of any claim for pension or bounty land in which articles of agreement have been or may hereafter be filed, it shall appear that the claimant, prior to the execution thereof, had paid to the agent or attorney any money for fee, postage (other than as allowed by Rule 8), or expenses in connection with the prosecution of the claim, and the amount so paid is not stated in the acceptance of agreement by the agent or attorney, then every such claim shall be adjudicated as if the articles of agreement contained no stipulation as to a fee, and from the fee of ten dollars allowed by law such sums as are shown to have been paid to the agent or attorney shall be deducted.

Rule 10. Attorney not to Act as Notary, etc., or Attesting Witness. No power of attorney or articles of agreement will be accepted as valid wherein the claimant's acknowledgment is taken before an officer who is the agent or attorney named therein, or where the agent or attorney acts as one of the attesting witnesses to claimant's signature to such instrument.

A declaration, affidavit, or any paper, requiring execution, or acknowledgment in connection with a claim for pension, or bounty land, must be executed or acknowledged before an officer duly authorized to administer oaths for general purposes, who is not interested in the prosecution of the claim to which said paper pertains, and the jurat must so show. An agent or attorney who shall file any paper containing in the jurat a false statement that the officer before whom such paper was executed, or acknowledged, is not interested in the prosecution of the claim, or any statement equivalent thereto, when in truth. and in fact, such agent or attorney has entered into a contract, agreement, or understanding, with such officer, by virtue of which said officer is to receive compensation, or a commission, from such agent or attorney, in the event of the allowance of the claim, will subject himself to suspension or disbarment from practice before the Bureau of Pensions.

Rule 11. Limitation-Date of Filing.-All articles of agreement in claims for pension or bounty land that conform to the requirements of the law and regulations will be accepted if filed prior to the date of the issue of the certificate or of the bounty land warrant.

Rule 12. Limitation-Title to Fees.-No request of an agent or attorney for consideration of his title to a fee will be entertained unless the same is filed in the Bureau of Pensions within three years from the date of issue of the certificate upon which such fee is claimed.

Rule 13. Disbarment-Effect on Payment of Fee.-If an agent or attorney is disbarred pending the adjudication of a claim, and if, while such disbarment is in force, the claim is adjudicated and the certificate issued without certification of a fee by reason of such disbarment, and if thereafter said agent or attorney is restored to practice, and if claimant has not, by reason of such disbarment, canceled or revoked the authority theretofore existing, upon such restoration as aforesaid the lawful fee will be certified and paid to such agent or attorney.

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