ART. 40] LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL AND AGENTS. 1173

that such person be allowed a hearing before a committee or
otherwise, upon the question of such disbarment, and that
cause be shown therefor. No person shall employ any one as
legislative attorney or agent within the period of three years
after his disbarment, as above provided. Any person regularly
or professionally employed as a legislative agent may cause
his name to be entered upon a list of such agents, which shall
be kept by the secretary of State in connection with said
docket. When any person is disbarred from employment as a.
legislative agent, as above provided, his name shall be stricken
from such list and shall not again be placed thereon within the
period of three years.

1900, ch. 328 sec. 8.

8. The legislative dockets shall be closed biennially upon
the adjournment of the general assembly, and the docket for the
ensuing two years shall then be opened. In the absence of
rules made by the general assembly with reference to said
dockets, the secretary of State may adopt such rules with
reference thereto as may be proper under this sub-title.

Ibid. sec. 9.

9. Within thirty days of the adjournment of the general
assembly every person whose name appears upon the legislative
dockets of. the previous two years as employing any legislative
counsel or agent shall render to the secretary of the State a
full, complete and detailed statement, sworn to before a proper
officer, by the person making the same, or, if a corporation, by
botb president and treasurer, of all expenses paid or incurred
by such person or corporation in connection with such employ-
ment of legislative counsel or agents, or in connection with,
promoting or opposing in any manner, directly or indirectly,
the passage or defeat by the general assembly of any legislation
within the terms of this sub-title; said reports shall be made
in such form as may be indicated and approved by the secretary
of State, and shall be open to public inspection.

Ibid. sec. 10.

10. Legislative counsel or agents shall within ten days of
the date when their names are entered upon the legislative
dockets, as required by this sub-title, file with the secretary of
State a written authorization to act as such counsel or agent,
signed by the person for whom they claim to act.