ART. 10] STATE BOARD OF LAW EXAMINERS. 9

Admission to the Bar.

1898, ch. 189.

2. All applications for admission to the bar in this State shall
be made by petition to the Court of Appeals. A State Board of
Law Examiners is hereby created, to consist of three members of
the bar of at least ten years' standing, who shall be appointed by
the Court of Appeals, and shall hold office for the term of three
years. Said appointment shall be made as follows: As soon
after the passage of this act as possible the Court of Appeals
shall appoint three law examiners. Said examiners shall hold
office for one, two and three years respectively, to be designated
by the judges of the Court of Appeals. After the first appoint-
ment the Court of Appeals shall annually appoint a member of
said board in the place of the examiner whose term shall expire.
Members of said board shall be eligible to re-appointment. In
case of any vacancy in said board by reason of death, resignation
or otherwise, the Court of Appeals shall fill said vacancy by the
appointment of a member of said board to serve until the expira-
tion of the term for which the person so dying or resigning had
been appointed.

1892, ch. 37. 1898, ch 139.

3. All applications 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 qualifications for
admission to the bar. The said board shall report their proceed-,
ings in the examination of applicants 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 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 performance of its duties. The
expenses of said board, including such compensation 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