EMERSON. C. HARRINGTON, GOVERNOR. 891

Section 3. Any person in this State desiring to begin the
study of law for the purpose of admission to the Bar shall
first file with the Clerk of the Court of Appeals an application
for registration as a law student, and at the same time shall file
therewith a certificate showing that he has completed a course
of study at some university, college, high school or other school
substantially equivalent to a high school education in Mary-
land; said university, college, high or other school to be ap-
proved by the State Board of Law Examiners; and if he has
not completed such course of study, he shall submit to an
examination, to be held under the supervision of the State
Board of Law Examiners, in such subjects as may be pre-
scribed by the rules of the Court of Appeals, in order to show
that his education is substantially equivalent to a high school
education in Maryland; if the said Board shall approve such
certificate of graduation, or the applicant shall pass such an
examination, he shall then be entitled to registration as a law
student.

Nunc pro tunc registration may be permitted if the candi-
date had the requisite education at the date as of which he
desires to be registered and there has been no laches on his
part, said matters to be determined by the State Board of Law
Examiners.

A candidate removing from a jurisdiction having similar
standards for registration may have the registration trans-
ferred. 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 or her
qualifications for admission to the Bar. No one shall be exam-
ined who shall not have studied law in a law school in some
part of the United States, or in the office of a member of the
Bar of this State for at least three years; no one shall be exam-
ined who shall not have been registered as aforesaid as a law
student before beginning said period of study; but any candi-
date who shall have pursued the study of law in a school out-
side the State of Maryland for the requisite period may take
the Bar examination without registration; provided he shall
satisfy the said Board of Law Examiners that before begin-
ning the study of law he had completed the course of a uni-
versity, college, high school or other school approved by the
Board of Law Examiners, or was admitted to a college or law
school, the requirements for entrance to which shall be ap-
proved by the Board of Law Examiners.