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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
two years. Every applicant, upon presenting himself or her-
self 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 pay-
ment of one examination fee the applicant shall be entitled to
the privilege of three examinations, but no more. Any fraud-
ulent 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 practise.
The board of law examiners shall render an annual account of
their expenses to the court of appeals. 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 the production of their diplomas of
graduation as heretofore.
In re Maddox, 93 Md. 729.

1902, ch. 399, sec. 3 A.

4. Women shall be permitted to practise law in this State
upon the same terms, conditions and requirements and to the
same extent as provided in this article with reference to men.

1888, art. 10, sec. 6. 1860, art. 11, sec. 6. 1831, ch. 268, sec. 5. 1898, ch. 139.

5. Members of the bar of any State, district or territory of
the United States, who, for five years after admission, have
been engaged as practitioners, judges or teachers of law, shall
be admitted without examination on proof of good moral char-
acter, after becoming actual residents of this State. Members
of the bar of any other State, district or territory of the United
States, who may be employed as counsel in any case pending
before any of the courts of this State, may be admitted for all
the purposes of the case in which they are so employed by the

court before which said case is pending, without examination.
Nothing herein contained shall be construed to deprive the
courts of this State of the power, as at present existing, of

disbarring or otherwise punishing members of the bar.

Ibid, sec 9. 1860, art. 11, sec. 9. 1831, ch. 228, sec 1. 1878, ch. 400.

6. All persons who are now or shall hereafter be admitted
to practise law in the court of appeals of this State, shall be