The exercise of rule-making power and the preparation of proposed legislative measures by administrative departments. 1. The exercise of rule-making power, by James Hart. 2. The preparation of proposed legislative measures by administrative departments, by E. E. Witte

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Page 43 - The head of each department is authorized to prescribe regulations, not inconsistent with law, for the government of his department, the conduct of its officers and clerks, the distribution and performance of its business, and the custody, use. and preservation of the records, papers, and property appertaining to it.
Page 17 - No provision of this title imposing any liability shall apply to any act done or omitted in good faith in conformity with any rule or regulation of the Commission, notwithstanding that such rule or regulation may, after such act or omission, be amended or rescinded or be determined by judicial or other authority to be invalid for any reason.
Page 22 - But even in such a case he may consider the decision after its rendition as a reason for removing the officer, on the ground that the discretion regularly entrusted to that officer by statute has not been on the whole intelligently or wisely exercised. Otherwise he does not discharge his own constitutional duty of seeing that the laws be faithfully executed.
Page 45 - ... 2 inches and a right-hand margin of approximately 1 inch, and shall be double-spaced, except that quotations, tabulations, or descriptions of land may be singlespaced.
Page 45 - USC 312) , nothing in this order shall be construed to apply to treaties, conventions, protocols, or other international agreements, or proclamations thereof by the President. § 7.6 Definition. The term "Presidential proclamations and Executive orders...
Page 45 - Specifications for Descriptions of Tracts of Land for Use In Executive Orders and Proclamations," prepared by the Bureau of Land Management, Department of the Interior.
Page 45 - Executive order or proclamation, he shall transmit it to the Attorney General for his consideration as to both form and legality.
Page 27 - General, who is not an elected servant of the people and who is not amenable to their will, the power arbitrarily to make rules and regulations having the force and effect of law which directly affect every home.

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