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LAWS OF MARYLAND.— 1831.

Compen-
sation.

as herein required, for which the sheriff shall be entitled to
receive the additional sum of twenty-five cents for every license
hereafter obtained above the amount or rate aforesaid.

Clerks to
include in
list return-
ed to trea-
surer, &c.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty of the
clerks of the county courts, and of the clerk of Baltimore city
court, to extend against the name of each and every person
contained in the list required to be transmitted to the treasurer
of the western shore, under the fifth section of the said original
act, the amounts or rates of rent or annual value for which
licenses shall have been obtained, where the same shall exceed
two thousand or five hundred dollars, as the case may be, under
the penalty provided by the fifth section of the said original act.

Repeating
clause.

SEC. 6. And be it enacted. That each and every matter and
thing contained in the act, to which this is a supplement, con-
trary to, or inconsistent with, the provisions of this act, be, and
the same is hereby repealed.

CHAPTER 268.
AN ACT regulating the admission of Attorneys to practise Law in the
several Courts of this Slate.

Preamble.

WHEREAS, under the existing laws of this state, it is in the
power of the several courts of law and equity, to regulate the
admission of attorneys according to their discretion, by which
different rules prevail in different courts ; and it is proper and
right, that the mode and terms of admission should be uniform
throughout this state ; therefore,

Application

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That all applications for admission as attorney, to practise the
law in this state, shall be made to some one of the county courts,
courts of equity or courts of appeals thereof in open court.

Qualifi-
cation.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That upon every such applica-
tion for admission to practise law as aforesaid, of any free white
male citizen of Maryland, above the age of twenty-one years,
and who shall have been a student of law in any part of the
United States, for at least two years previous to said application,
it shall be the duty of the court to whom such application shall

Examina-
tion.

be made, to examine said applicant upon some day during the
regular session thereof, touching his qualification for admission
as an attorney, and they shall also require and receive evidence
of his probity and general character, and if upon such actual
examination, and being satisfied that he has been a student of
law, at least two years as aforesaid, and having heard evidence
as to his probity and general character, the said court shall be
of opinion that said applicant is qualified to discharge the

Admission.

duties of an attorney and worthy to be admitted, they shall
admit him.