Evening star., 1936-02-18
GAZETTE ON j. 5.
RULES DUE SOON
Federal Bar Association
Hears of Plans to List
Regulations.

To make available administrative
rules and regulations of the Federal
Government in the form OF an Of
fetal gazette, publication OF the daily
Federal Register will begin March II
in the form, style and size Of the
Congressional Record" it was an
nounced last night.
Mai. B. r. Kennedy, director OF
the Division Of the Federal Register,
the National Archives, explained plans
for the new Government publication
to the Federal Bar Association at a
meeting in the auditorium Of the Ma
tional Archives.
Five Days Per Week.
The register will be issued on Tues
days, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays
and Saturdays, excepting days follow
ing legal holidays. Maj. Kennedy said
This work." he added, ''is being
carried out under authority of the
Federal Register act Of last July,
which proposes GENERALIZATION Of all
administrative law heretofore or here
after issued and the establishment OF
an agency charged with the function
of publishing such law when pre-
scribed by Federal agencies pursuant
to authority delegated in statutory en-
actments"
For the present no notices of hear
ings will be printed in the register,
Maj. Kennedy explained. although
they will be included later.
May Change Act.
Concerning the compilation Of the
entire body of the administrative law,
the speaker announced that consider
alton is being given to changing the
compilation" to "codification." This
would necessitate change in the
Federal Register act, and such an
amendment is now under considera-
tion,, Maj. Kennedy said.
Explaining that the new Feders,
register will be "judicially noticed"
by the courts, Maj. Kennedy declared
that insofar as administrative law Is
concerned" this will be very advan-
tageous" But he declared 1T will
leave the statutory law in somewhat
inferior position" He explained that
the official slip law" session law"
and statutes at large" forms Of the
statutory law were not available for
the courts .ntil long after the Federal
Register will have made available to
the courts the administrative law"
=. Would Speed Text.
1T would seem that some method
should be worked out whereby the
courts and persons interested should
have before them, within few days
after the approval Of particular act,
the text of such act in the form OF
which the courts may take judicial
notice in the same manner as the
court will have before them the text
of the rules and regulations issued.
prescribed, or promulgated by the
Federal agencies when appearing In
the daily issue of the Federal Regis
ter"
Explaining how the new Federal
Register will fill a long-felt want
in the American Government. the
speaker declared, that there has been
no Federal agency wherein the text OF
the myriad rules and regulations
which have been issued by Federal
agencies since the inception of the
Government could be found. Nor has
there been q single Federal agency
wherein the rules and regulations
which are currently issued could be
found. >..
Face Difficulties. -.
Persons interested in obtaining the
text of documents are faced first with
the problem of isolating the Federal
agency wherein such documents would
be most likely to be filled. There re-
mains the problem of ascertaining
whether the particular document has
been published, or obtaining a copy,
or of gaining access to the original
document. This might be relatively
easy for the official or the attorney
within the city of Washington, but
for the person outside the city, who
might be vitality affected, such prob
lens present insurmountable difficult
ties
The Register will begin with cur
rent administrative law and regula-
tions, and catch up on the past with
Issuance of supplemental editions. The
whole will be properly indexed.
DR.. r. D. W. Cornor, arcnivist.
spoke briefly, :
Following the program, the mem
bers of the Bar Association were taken
for a tour of the new Archives Build
ing. ..-