373

A. Regulations Relating to Army and Navy Pensions for the

Guidance of Claimants and Attorneys..

B.

Rules of Practice in Cases Before the Accounting Officers

of the United States in the Division of the Comptroller... 392

C. Customs Administrative Act of June 10, 1890, as Amended

by Act of July 24, 1897.....

416

D. Rules of Practice in the United States Patent Office...... 444

E. Rules of Practice in Cases Before the United States District

Land Offices, the General Land Office, and the Department

of the Interior.....

F. Laws Applicable to the Administration of the Internal Rev-

enue Laws.

... 523

557

ADMINISTRATIVE LAW.

CHAPTER I.

THE LAW OF THE ADMINISTRATION.

§ 1. Introduction.

2. Law for Administration.

3. External Law.

4. Internal Law.

5. Result for Administration.

6. Conclusion.

1. Introduction.

It is intended in these lectures to deal with the law governing the execution of law by public officers so far as such a law has a place in our system of law. The attempt will be to discover the principal rules of law that govern in administration; the object of which is to arrive at some theory as to the nature of this administrative law which regulates the rights and duties of officials in their various relations. Administrative law, then, is that body of rules which defines the authority and the responsibility of that department of the government which is charged with the enforcement of the law. At all events, the experiment in these lectures will be to treat these problems of administration as matters of law.

MR. DICEY in his admirable book The Law of the Constitution, which is already a classic among treatises

Adm. Law-1.