Chapter 10. Relating to the disqualification of registers and receivers of the United States land offices, and making provision in case of such disqualification
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CHAP. 10.— An Act Relating to the disqualification of registers and receivers of the United States land offices, and making provision in case of such disqualification.January 11, 1894. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Public lands.Registers and receivers not to proceed in cases whore personally interested, etc. That no register or receiver shall receive evidence in, hear or determine any cause pending in any district land office in which cause be is interested directly or indirectly, or has been of counsel, or where he is related to any of the parties in interest by consanguinity or affinity within the fourth degree, computing by the rules adopted by the common law.
Sec. 2. That it shall be the duty of every register or receiver so disqualifiedSubstitution of other officer. to report the fact of his disqualification to the Commissioner of the General Land Office, as soon as be shall ascertain it, and before the hearing of such cause, who thereupon, with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, shall designate some other register, receiver, or special agent of the Land Department to act in the place of the disqualified officer, and the same authority is conferred on the officer so designated which such register or receiver would otherwise have possessed to act in such case.
Approved, January 11, 1894.