84 ATTORNEYS. [ART. 10.

ARTICLE X.

ATTORNEYS AT LAW AND ATTORNEYS IN FACT.

1. Must be admitted 2. To what courts application to be made. 3.. Examination. Admission. 4. Certificate of admission. 6. Rejection. Second application. 6. Lawyers from other States. 7. Other provisions upon same sub- ject. 8. Appeal by rejected applicants. 9. Certificate from court of appeals. 10. Oath. 11. Punishments for misconduct. 12. Negligence resulting in discontinu- ance. 13. Costs for negligence. 14. Who may not be admitted. 15. Register and clerks not to practise. 16. Nor judges.

State's Attorney. 17. To represent the State. 18. To order execution for penalties 18. May compromise cases of assault 20. To aid comptroller and treasurer. 21. Accounts for fees. 22. Comptroller may adjust fees of. 23. Ad interim appointment of. 24. When to enter judgment to use of surety. Attorneys in Fact. 25. When acts valid after death or principal 26. Transfer by attorney of stock owned by partnership. 27. How such power to be acknowl- edged. 28. Power of attorney to execute deed.

P. G. L., (1860,) art. 11, sec. 1. 1715, ch. 48. 1783, ch. 17. 1831, ch. 268.

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

Ibid. sec. 2. 1831, ch. 268, sec. 1.

2. All applications for admission as attorney to practise the
law in this State shall be made to some one of the circuit courts
for the counties, the supreme bench of Baltimore city, or to the
court of appeals, in open court

Ibid. sec. 3. 1831, ch. 269, sec. 2. 1876, ch. 264. 1888, ch. 204.

3. Upon every such application for any male citizen of Mary-
land, 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