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the court to which such application shall be made, to appoint an
examining board of not less than three members of the bar, who
shall examine the applicant in the presence of the court, touch-
ing his qualification for admission as an attorney, and the said

court shall also require and receive evidence of his probity ond
general character; and if upon such actual examination, and
being satisfied that he has been a student of law for at least two
years, and having heard evidence of his probity and general
character, the said court shall be of the opinion that said appli-
cant is qualified to discharge the duties of an attorney, and
worthy to be admitted, the said court shall admit him; and the

circuit court for the counties, and the supreme bench of Balti-
more city, are authorized to appoint a permanent examining
board, but no member of said board shall be appointed for a
longer period than one year. Graduates of the law department
of the University of Maryland shall be entitled to admission
upon the production of their diplomas, without undergoing such
examination, and upon offering such evidence of their probity
and general character as the court shall require.
Matter of Charles Taylor, 48 Md. 30.

P. G. L., (1860,) art. 11, sec. 4. 1831, ch. 368, sec. 3.

4. Upon the admission of any applicant to practise law in
any of the courts of this State above mentioned, it shall be the

duty of the court so admitting him to certify the same with
their own proper signatures; which certificate shall be recorded,
and a copy thereof, authenticated with the seal of the court,
shall be available and sufficient to entitle the applicant so
admitted to admission to practise in any of the courts of this
State.

Ibid. sec. 5 1831, ch. 268, sec. 4,

5. If, upon the application and examination of any citizen as
aforesaid, the court shall be of opinion that he ought not to be
admitted, the said applicant shall not again be entitled to a hear-
ing for admission in any court of this State until the expiration
of twelve months after the first application; and if upon a
second application he shall be rejected, he shall not again be
heard until the expiration of twelve months after such second
application.