Memorandum: Charges Against Registrar at New Orleans

put M.R. B. MEMORANDUM. CHARGES AGAINST REGISTER AT NEW ORLEANS. October 10, 1900, S. A. KEANE, dealer in municipal bonds, United States land warrants and scrip, of 132 La salle Street, Chicago, complained that he sold "an 80 acre soldier' sAddi- tional' to a certain party who presented it to the Register and Receiver at New orleans (WALTER L. cohen and CHARLES P. JOHNSTON). These officers handed him a certain form of af- fidavit, and refused to take the scrip unless he would sign and swear to the affidavit. The Commissioner of the General Land Office, having in- quired into the matter, reported that, as the affidavit in question was only intended to be made by the original claim- ant, as applicant for additional homestead right, the Regis- ter and Receiver had been directed to discontinue the require- ment of its use by an assignee. July 10, 1902, one ROBERT J. MAHONEY, attorney for PAUL SIGG of New Orleans, filed a claim of debt against Walter L. Cohen, the Register, amounting to $450. Cohen explained that the notes in question were then the subject of suit in the Civil District Court, and he intended tp pay whatever the Court awarded. The Commissioner of the General Land Office recommended that the Department take no action in the matter. The Land Office report upon Register Cohen is favorable, Inspector BURKE reported in March last as follows: