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If the Court of Appeals shall then find the applicant to be
qualified under the provisions of this section and also (if
registered on or after June 1st, 1940) under the provisions
of Section 4 to discharge the duties of any attorney, and
to be of good moral character, [and] worthy to be ad-
mitted, and not a subversive person, as defined by the
Subversive Activities Act of 1949, they shall pass an order
admitting him or her to practice in all the Courts of the
State.

7. Members of the bar of any State, district or terri-
tory of the United States, who, for five years after admis-
sion, have been engaged as practitioners, judges or teachers
of law, shall be admitted without examination on proof
of good moral character, and that they are not subversive
persons, as defined by the Subversive Activities Act of
1949, after becoming actual residents of this State. Mem-
bers of the bar of any other State, district or territory of
the United States, who may be employed as counsel in any
case pending before any of the courts of this State, may
be admitted for all the purposes of the case in which they
are so employed by the court before which said case is
pending, without examination. Nothing herein contained
shall be construed to deprive the courts of this State of
the power, as at present existing, of disbarring or other-
wise punishing members of the bar.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That Sections 12,
13, 16 and 17 of Article 10 of the Annotated Code of
Maryland (1939 Edition and 1947 Supplement), title
"Attorneys at Law and Attorneys in Fact", sub-title "Mis-
conduct of Attorneys—Negligence—Disbarment—Suspen-
sion", be and the same are hereby repealed and re-enacted,
with amendments, to read as follows:

12. Whenever a judge of any of the several courts of
this State shall have reasonable ground to believe that any
attorney admitted to the practice of law in his court is
guilty of professional misconduct, malpractice, fraud,
deceit, crime involving moral turpitude, [or] conduct
prejudicial to the administration of justice, or is a sub-
versive person, as defined by the Subversive Activities
Act of 1949, he shall issue an order directed to the Bar
Association and/or State's Attorney of the City or County,
as the case may be, in which his said court is located,
requiring said Bar Association and/or State's Attorney to
prosecute the charges named in said order on a day speci-
fied therein, which day shall not be less than fifteen or
more than sixty days from the date of said order, and shall