954                                 LAWS OF MARYLAND                          [CH. 586

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FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS
ACT, SUCCESSFUL COMPLETION OF SIXTY (60) SEMESTER
HOURS OF ACADEMIC WORK IN FIELDS OF STUDY PRE-
SCRIBED BY THE COURT OF APPEALS AND THE MARY-
LAND STATE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION TAKEN IN AN
EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION APPROVED TO GIVE SUCH
PRE-LEGAL TRAINING BY THE MARYLAND STATE DE-
PARTMENT OF EDUCATION SHALL BE ACCEPTED AS SAT-
ISFACTORY COMPLIANCE WITH THE REQUIREMENTS OF
THIS SECTION. The requirements for pre-legal education as pro-
vided in the existing law shall continue until May 31, 1957.

[The following shall be accepted as satisfactory proof of com-
pliance with the requirements of this section:

(a)   If the application for registration as a law student is made
on or after June 1st, 1940, it must be accompanied by evidence satis-
factory to the State Board of Law Examiners of the successful
completion of one year's academic work, consisting of not less than
thirty (30) semester hours, and if made on or after June 1st, 1941,
then of two years of academic work, consisting of a total of not less
than thirty-six (36) semester hours, in each instance taken in a
university or college recognized by the Maryland State Department
of Education as a standard institution of college grade, or

(b)   Filing with the said application for registration a certificate
from any college or university approved by the State Board of Law
Examiners, as hereinafter provided, certifying that the applicant has
successfully completed a course of studies which the State Board of
Law Examiners shall have deemed for the purpose of pre-legal educa-
tion as set forth in Sections 3 and 4 of this Article, as full and com-
plete compliance with its requirements and which course of studies
the State Board of Law Examiners shall have promulgated by rule
duly published in a newspaper of general circulation in the State of
Maryland within thirty (30) days from June 1, 1939. This rule when
so promulgated shall specify the subjects to be taught, the number
of hours for each subject and the colleges or universities in Maryland
which have been approved by the State Board 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 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. Actual college or university attendance
shall not be required in the acquisition of said "Equivalent" education
herein provided 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