54 ATTORNEYS. [ART. 11.

8. If, upon the rejection of any applicant for admission to
practice law in any Circuit Court in this State, or in the Superior
Court of Baltimore city, such applicant shall deem himself
aggrieved by such rejection, he may apply to the Court of Ap-
peals for admission to practice law in said court, who shall
examine such applicant as to his qualifications, character and
time of studying, in manner and subject to the regulation
hereinbefore provided as to such examination; and if, upon such
examination, the Court of Appeals shall determine that the
applicant ought to be admitted to practice in the Court of Ap-
peals, he shall be admitted accordingly; and such admission
shall entitle him to admission to practice in any court of this
State.

9. The Criminal Court of Baltimore and the Court of Common
Pleas may admit attorneys to practice in their respective courts,
but such admission shall not authorize the attorney to practice
in any other court.

10. Every attorney or other practitioner of law shall take
and subscribe an oath that he will demean himself fairly and
honorably.

11. The judges of the several courts of this State shall observe
the demeanor of all attorneys practicing the law before them,
who shall use any indecent liberties to the lessening the grandeur
and authority of their respective courts, and shall discountenance
and punish the same according to the nature of the offense, either
by suspending such attorney from his practice perpetually, or for
a time, or by fine (at the discretion of the court) not exceeding
fifty dollars for any one offense.

12. Any attorney who, by his negligence in bringing a cause
to a decision within the time limited by law, shall suffer such
cause to be discontinued, shall forfeit the sum of one hundred
dollars, and all costs of suit accrued on any action discontinued
by his default; one-half to the party grieved, and the other half
to the State, for the use and benefit of the county where such
fines arise.

13. The several courts of this State may, in their discretion,
where it shall appear to them that any plaintiff or defendant in
any action brought in said courts shall suffer by the negligence or
omission of the attorney, immediately adjudge such attorney to