384 LAWS APPLICABLE TO DEPARTMEXT OF AGRICULTURE. 



LEGAL SERVICES AND CLAIMS. 

 REV. ST. SEC. 189. 



Employment of attorneys or counsel. 



Sec. 189. No head of a Department shall emplo}' attorneys or coun- 

 sel at the expense of the United States; but when in need of counsel 

 or advice, shall call upon the Department of Justice, the officers of 

 which shall attend to the same. 



REV. ST. SEC. 356. 



Opinion of Attorney General upon questions of law arising in departments. 



Sec. 356. The head of any Executive Department may require the 

 opinion of the Attorney-General on any questions of law arising in 

 the administration of his Department. 



REV. ST. SEC. 361. 



Officers of Department of Justice to perform all legal services required by other 

 departments. 



Sec. 361. The officers of the Department of Justice, under the direc- 

 tion of the Attorney-General, shall j^ive all opinions and render all 

 services roquirino^ the skill of persons learned in the law necessary to 

 enable the President and heads of all Departments, and the heads of 

 Bureaus and other officers in the Departments, to discharge their re- 

 spective duties; and shall, on behalf of the United States, procure the 

 proper evidence for. and conduct, prosecute, or defend all suits and 

 l)ro(.'eedings in the Supreme Court and in the Court of Claims, in 

 which the United States, or any officer thereof, as such officer, is a 

 party or may be interested; and no fees shall be allowed or paid to 

 any other attorney ov counselor at law for any service herein required 

 of the officers of the Department of Justice, except in the cases pro- 

 vided by section three hundred and sixty-three. 



REV. ST. SEC. 365. 



Counsel feeS' restricted. ^ 



Sec, 365. No compensation shall hereafter be allowed to any person, 

 besides the respective district attorneys and assi.stant district attor- 

 neys for services as nn attorney or counselor to the United States, or 

 to any branch or Department of tl\e Government thereof, except in 

 cases specially authorized by law, and then onh' on the certificate of 

 the .\ttorney-General that such services were actually rendered, and 

 that the same could not be performed by the Attorney-General, or 

 Solicitor-Cicneral, or llie oflicers of the Department of Justice, or by 

 the district attorneys. 



REV. ST. SEC. 355. 



Title to land to be purchased by United States. 



Sec. 355. No public money shall be expended upon any site or land 

 purchased by the United Statics for the purposes of erecting thei'eon 

 any ♦ * * piihlic- building, of any kind whatever, until the writ- 

 ten opinion of the Attorney-tTcneral shall be had in favtn- of the 

 ^alillity of the title, nor until the consent of the legislature of the 

 State in which the land or site may be. to such purchase, has i)een 

 given. The district attorneys of the Ignited States, upon the ap])lica- 

 tion of the Attornev-General. shall furnish anv assistance or informa- 



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