ATTORNEYS AT LAW AND ATTORNEYS IN FACT. 309

Prior to the act of 1902, ch. 399, women were not entitled to practice law in Mary-
land. 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).

An. Code, sec. 3. 1904, sec. 3. 1892, ch. 37. 1898, ch. 139. 1902, ch. 399. 1916, ch. 509.

1918, ch. 270.

3A.1 All applicants for admission to the bar shall be referred by the
Court of Appeals to the State Board of Law Examiners, who shall examine
the applicant touching his or her qualifications for admission to the bar.
The said board shall report their proceedings in the examination of appli-
cants to the Court of Appeals, with any recommendations said board may
desire to make. If the Court of Appeals shall then find the applicant to
be qualified to discharge the duties of an attorney, and to be of good moral
character and worthy to be admitted, they shall pass an order admitting
him or her to practice in all the courts of this State. The Court of Appeals
shall prescribe rules providing for a uniform system of examinations in
this State, which shall govern the Board of Law Examiners in the per-
formance of their duties. The expenses of said board, including such com-
pensation to the members thereof as the Court of Appeals may determine,
shall be paid out of the fees of the 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 three
years; provided, that those who are subject to draft or who may become
subject to draft in the military service of the United States before the next
regular State bar examination or who have volunteered for the military or
naval service of the United States, or any student now enrolled at any
recognized law school in the State of Maryland, may be examined after
having studied law in a law school for at least two scholastic years or in
the office of a member of the bar of this State for at least two calendar
years, the above provisions in relation to two years shall apply only during
the period for which the United States shall be at war with the Government
of Germany. Every applicant, 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 practice. The Board of Law Exam-
iners shall render an annual account of their expenses to the Court of Ap-
peals. 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

1Both the act of 1918, ch. 426, and the act of 1918, ch. 270, repealed and re-enacted
art. 10, sec. 3. Although' the former was approved on April 18, 1918, and the latter on
April 10, 1918, in view of the decision of the Court of Appeals of Maryland in Balti-
more v. German-American Fire Insurance Company, 132 Md. 380, both acts are codified.