ART. 40] LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL AND AGENTS. 1171

Employment of Legislative Counsel and Agents and
Return of Legislative Expenses.

1900, ch. 328, sec. 4.

4t Every person who employs or agrees to employ another
to act as counsel or agent to promote or oppose in any manner,
directly or indirectly, the passage by the general assembly of
any legislation, or to act in any manner as a legislative counsel
or agent in connection with any legislation shall within one
week of the date of such employment or agreement therefor
cause the name of the person so employed or agreed to be
employed to be entered upon a legislative docket as herein
provided, and it shall also be the duty of the person so
employed or agreed to be employed to cause his name to be
so entered or see that the same has been so entered upon such
docket. Upon the termination of such employment such fact
may be entered opposite the name of any person so employed,
either by the employer or by the person so employed.

Ibid. sec. 5.

5. The secretary of State shall prepare and keep two legisla-
tive dockets in conformity with the provisions of this sub-title.
One of such dockets shall be known as that of "legislative
counsel," and the other as that of "legislative agents." In that
of legislative counsel shall be entered the names of counsel
employed to appear at any hearing before the general assem-
bly, or either branch thereof, or any committee thereof, for the
purpose of making an argument or examining witnesses, and
also the names of any regular counsel of corporations or
associations who act or advise in relation to legislation, and in
the docket of legislative agents shall be entered the names of
all agents employed in connection with any legislation, and of
all persons employed for other purposes who render any service
as such agents. In such dockets there shall be entered the
name and business address of the employer, the name, resi-
dence and occupation of the person employed, the date of the
employment or agreement therefor, the length of time that the
employment is to continue, if such time can be determined,
and the special subject or subjects of legislation to which the
employment relates.

Ibid. sec. 6.

6. Any person employing any legislative counsel or agents
shall, from time to time, as fast as subjects of legislation are