HERBERT R. O'CONOR, GOVERNOR. 875
of Law Examiners to give pre-legal education. The said
Board of Law Examiners, when said rule shall have been
promulgated, shall thereafter neither enlarge nor diminish
the course of study nor number of hours specified. The
State Board of Law Examiners shall not add to nor take
from the list of Maryland Colleges and universities
approved by it, except that if the State Board of Education
shall certify to the State Board of Law Examiners that any
college or university theretofore approved is not providing
the pre-legal education required by the rule promulgated,
such institution may be removed from the list, 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. Actual college or university attendance shall not
be "required in the acquisition of said "Equivalent" educa-
tion herein provided for, but if the applicant has not com-
pleted such course of study as may be prescribed by said
rule under this Section in such an approved college or uni-
versity, 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 standard of pre-legal education estab-
lished and required by Sections 3 and 3½ of this Article.
Prior to taking such last mentioned examination, appli-
cants shall pay to the State Board of Law Examiners a fee
not in excess of the cost involved in giving such examina-
tion, which said fee shall be determined and fixed by rule
or resolution passed or adopted by said Board.
SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That Section 3-A of
Article 10 of the Annotated Code (1924 Edition), title
"Attorneys at Law, and Attorneys in Fact", sub-title
"Admission to the Bar, " be and it is hereby repealed.
SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That all laws or parts
of laws inconsistent with the provisions of this Act are
hereby repealed to the extent of such inconsistency.
SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall
take effect June 1, 1939.
Approved May 3, 1939.
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