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specified. The State Board of Law Examiners shall not add
to nor take from the list of Maryland Colleges and universi-
ties approved by it except that any college or university
may be added to or removed from said approved list upon
certification by the State Board of Education that such
college or university is or is not providing the pre-legal
education required by said rule so promulgated, provided,
however, that the General Assembly of Maryland, may, from
time to time, by an enabling act authorize the State Board of
Law Examiners to make specified changes in said rule. Ac-
tual college or university attendance shall not be required
in the acquisition of said "Equivalent" education herein pro-
vided for, but if the applicant has not completed such course
of study as may be prescribed by said rule under this section
in such an approved college or university, he or she shall
submit to an examination to be held under the supervision
of the State Board of Law Examiners in subjects specified
by said rule of the State Board of Law Examiners in order
to show that his or her education is equivalent to the stand-
ard of pre-legal education established and required by Sec-
tions 3 and 4 of this Article. Prior to taking such last men-
tioned examination, applicants shall pay to the State Board
of Law Examiners a fee not in excess of the cost involved
in giving such examination, which said fee shall be deter-
mined and fixed by rule or resolution passed or adopted by
said Board.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act is hereby
declared to be an emergency law and necessary for the im-
mediate preservation of the public health and safety, and hav-
ing been passed upon by yea and nay vote, supported by
three-fifths of all the members elected to each of the two
Houses of the General Assembly of Maryland, the same shall
take effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 16, 1947.

CHAPTER 500.
(Senate Bill 82)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section
133A of Article 41 of the Annotated Code of Maryland
(1943 Supplement), title "Governor—Executive and Ad-
ministrative Departments", sub-title "The Finance Depart-
ment", relating to the compensation of the Administrator
of Loan Laws and the assistants and employees of said
Administrator.