52 ATTORNEYS. [ART. 11.

35. Any justice of the peace may issue an attachment against
a non-resident or absconding debtor, where the sum claimed shall
not exceed one hundred dollars, but no special pleading shall be
required before a justice of the peace.

36. No attachment of the wages or hire of any laborer or em-
ployee in the hands of the employers, whether private individuals
or bodies corporate, shall affect any salary or wages of the debtor
which are not actually due at the date of the attachment, and
the sum of ten dollars of such wages or salary which may be
due shall be exempted from attachment, whether on warrant or
on judgment.

37. Any judgment of condemnation against a garnishee and
execution thereon, or payment by such garnishee, shall be suffi-
cient, and pleadable in bar in any action brought against him by
the defendant in the attachment for or concerning the property
or credits so condemned.

ARTICLE XI.
Attorneys at Law and Attorneys in fact.

ATTORNEYS AT LAW.

SEC. 1. No attorney or other person shall practice the law in
any of the courts of this State without being admitted thereto
as herein directed.

2. All applications for admission as attorney to practice the
law in this State shall be made to some one of the Circuit Courts
for the counties, the Superior Court of Baltimore city, the Cir-
cuit Court for Baltimore city, or to the Court of Appeals, in open
court.

3. Upon every such application for 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 be made,
to examine said applicant upon some day during the regular