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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Chapter 201.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amend-
ments section two of article eleven of the
Code of Public General Laws, title " Attor-
ney s-at-law and Attorneys in fact."

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General As-

Repealed and
re-enacted.

sembly of Maryland, That section two of article
eleven of the Code of Public General Laws,
title " Attorneys-at-law and Attorneys in fact,"
be and the same is hereby repealed, and re-en-
acted with amendments so as to read as follows :
2. Upon every such application for any male
citizen of Maryland above the age of twenty-

Duty of courts

one years, and who shall have been a student
of law in any part of the United States for at
least two years previous to said application, it
shall be the duty of the court to which such
application shall be made to appoint an examin-
ing board of not less than three members of the
bar, who shall examine the applicant in the
presence of the court touching his qualification
for admission as an attorney, and the said court
shall also require and receive evidence of his
probity and 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 applicant is qualified to dis-

Shall admit
him.

charge 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 Baltimore 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 Mary-
land shall be entitled to admission upon the
production of their diplomas, without undergo-
ing such examination, and upon offering such
evidence of their probity and general character
as the court shall require.

Effective.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall
take effect from the date of its passage.

Approved March 31, 1888.