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applicants. No one shall be examined who shall not have studied the
law in a law school in any part of the United States or in the office of
a member of the bar of this State for at least two years. Every appli-
cant, upon presenting himself or herself for examination before the
board of law examiners, shall pay to the treasurer of the board such
fee, not exceeding twenty-five dollars, as may be fixed by the court of
appeals. On payment of one examination fee the applicant shall be
entitled to the privilege of three examinations, but no more. Any
fraudulent act or representation by an applicant in connection with
his or her application or examination shall be sufficient cause for the
revocation of the order admitting him or her to practise. The board
of law examiners shall render an annual account of their expenses to
the court of appeals. The provisions of this and the preceding section
shall not apply to those students who shall have matriculated at the law
department of the University of Maryland, or the Baltimore University
School of Law prior to the first day of January, 1898, but such students
shall be admitted upon the production of their diplomas of graduation
as heretofore.

Prior to the act of 1902, ch. 399. women were not entitled to practice law

in Maryland. In Re Maddox. 93 Md. 729.
For a case apparently now inapplicable to this section by reason of changes

in the law, see In Re Taylor, 48 Md. 30 (involving the right of a negro to

practice law).

1904, art. 10, sec. 4. 1902, ch. 399. sec. 3 A.

4. Women shall be permitted to practise law in this State upon the
same terms, conditions and requirements and to the same extent as
provided in this article with reference to men.

This section apparently grew out of the decision, In Re Maddox, 93 Md. 727.

Ibid. sec. 5. 188S, art. 10, sec. 6. 1860, art. 11, sec. 6. 1831, ch. 268, sec. 5.

1898, ch. 139.

5. Members of the bar of any State, district or territory of the
United States, who, for five years after admission, have been engaged
as practitioners, judges or teachers of law, shall be admitted without
examination on proof of good moral character, after becoming actual
residents of this State. Members of the bar of any other State, district
or territory of the United States, who may be employed as counsel in
any case pending before any of the courts of this State, may be admitted
for all the purposes of the case in which they are so employed by the
court before which said case is pending, without examination. Nothing
herein contained shall be construed to deprive the courts of this State
of the power, as at present existing, of disbarring or otherwise punish-
ing members of the bar.

This section would not authorize the admission to the Maryland bar of
women who had been practicing law in other states, if women were not enti-
tled to be originally admitted here. In Re Maddox. 93 Md. 734. (See Sec-
tion 4.)

The act of 1898. ch. 139. does not interfere with the authority of Maryland
courts to admit non-resident attorneys for the purpose of appearing in a
particular case. How a difficulty in serving pleadings in such case, may be
met. Chappell v. Real Estate Co., 89 Md. 261.

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