290 ATTORNEYS. [ART. 10

1900, ch. 13, sec. 12 A.

13. Any attorney who shall habitually go to the several
jails, station-houses and other places of criminal punishment
with the view of soliciting the clientage of persons confined
therein awaiting trial, without having been first sent for by such
persons or by their friends, or who shall solicit such clientage
through sheriffs, constables, jailors or professional law-breakers,
shall be deemed guilty of .a misdemeanor, and upon proper proof
before a court of which he shall be a member of the bar, shall
be suspended from practice in all the courts of'this State for a
period of not less than one year; and the judge imposing the
suspension shall have the same publicly posted on the bulletin
board of his said court, and shall direct the clerk of his said
court, under a penalty of five dollars for each default, to send
notice of such suspension to the clerk of every other court
in the State. Any sheriff, deputy sheriff, constable, police
officer, justice of the peace or other official who shall act as
such agent or broker for any lawyer shall be deemed guilty of
a misdemeanor and, on conviction, shall be fined not less than
twenty-five dollars, or be imprisoned, in the discretion of the
court, for not less than thirty days.

1888, art. 10, sec. 13. 1860, art. 11, sec. 13. 1722, ch. 12, sec. 4. 1775,
ch. 5, sec. 1. 1854, ch. 18, sec. 2. 1865, ch. 114. 1867, ch. 126.

14. The several courts of this State may, in their discretion,
where it shall appear to them that any plaintiff or defendant in
any action brought in said courts shall suffer by the negligence
or omission of the attorney, immediately adjudge such attorney
to pay the lawful costs accruing from such plaintiff or defendant
through such neglect or omission, not exceeding ten dollars;
but if the costs exceed that sum", then the plaintiff or defendant
shall be left to his remedy at common law; and every attorney
practising in the court of any county or city whereof he is not
an inhabitant may be sued in such county or city for any such
omission or neglect as if he resided therein.

Who May Not Practise Law.

Ibid. sec. 14. 1860, art. 11, sec. 15. 1715, ch. 41, sec. 9.

15. No sheriff or deputy sheriff, warden or keeper of a jail,
or any of his deputies; no warden or keeper of the penitentiary,
or deputy warden or keeper thereof, shall be admitted to practise
as attorney in any of the courts of this State; and if any of
said officers shall practise law in any court of this State, he
shall forfeit fifty dollars for each offense.