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she shall submit proof satisfactory to the State Board of Law Examiners
that in addition to the requisites of Section 3, he or she has successfully
completed two years of college work or its equivalent.

The following shall be accepted as satisfactory proof of compliance with
the requirements of this Section:

(a) If the application for registration as a law student is made on or
after June 1st, 1940, it must be accompanied by evidence satisfactory to
the State Board of Law Examiners of the successful completion of one
year's academic work, consisting of not less than thirty (30) semester
hours, and if made on or after June 1st, 1941, then of two years of
academic work, consisting of a total of not less than thirty-six (36)
semester hours, in each instance taken in a university or college recognized
by the Maryland State Department of Education as a standard institution
of college grade, or

(b) Filing with the said application for registration a certificate from
any college or university approved by the State Board of Law Examiners,
as hereinafter provided, certifying that the applicant has successfully com-
pleted a course of studies which the State Board of Law Examiners shall
have deemed for the purpose of pre-legal education as set forth in Sections
3 and 4 of this Article, as full and complete compliance with its require-
ments and which course of studies the State Board of Law Examiners
shall have promulgated by rule duly published in a newspaper of general
circulation in the State of Maryland within thirty (30) days from June
1, 1939. This rule when so promulgated shall specify the subjects to be
taught, the number of hours for each subject and the colleges or uni-
versities in Maryland which have been approved by the State Board
of Law Examiners to give pre-legal education. The said Board of Law
Examiners, when said rule shall have been promulgated, shall thereafter
neither enlarge nor diminish the course of study nor number of hours
specified. The State Board of Law Examiners shall not add to nor take
from the list of Maryland Colleges and universities approved by it, except
that if the State Board of Education shall certify to the State Board of
Law Examiners that any college or university theretofore approved is not
providing the pre-legal education required by the rule promulgated, such
institution may be removed from the list, provided, however, that the Gen-
eral Assembly of Maryland, may, from time to time, by an. enabling act
authorize the State Board of Law Examiners to make specified changes in
said rule. Actual college or university attendance shall not be required
in the acquisition of said "Equivalent" education herein provided for,
but if the applicant has not completed such course of study as may be
prescribed by said rule under this Section in such an approved college or
university, he or she shall submit to an examination to be held under the
supervision of the State Board of Law Examiners in subjects specified
by said rule of the State Board of Law Examiners in order to show that
his or her education is equivalent to the standard of pre-legal education
established and required by Sections 3 and 4 of this Article. Prior to
taking such last mentioned examination, applicants shall pay to the State
Board of Law Examiners a fee not in excess of the cost involved in giving
such examination, which said fee shall be determined and fixed by rule
or resolution passed or adopted by said Board.¹

¹ Sec. 3, ch. 410, 1939, repeals all laws inconsistent therewith.