556                              Laws of Maryland                      [Ch. 181

Section 11. And be it further enacted, That Sections 1 and 25 and
paragraphs (b)(3), (j)(3), (p)(3), (q)(2), and (v)(4) of Section
40 of Article 10, Annotated Code of Maryland (1968 Replacement
Volume and, as to paragraphs (j) (3), (p)(3), and (q) (2) of Section
40, 1971 Supplement), title "Attorneys at Law and Attorneys in
Fact," subtitles, respectively, "Admission to the Bar," "Misconduct of
Attorneys—Negligence—Disbarment—Suspension," and "State's At-
torney," be and they are hereby repealed and re-enacted, with
amendments, to read as follows:

1. Required before practicing as attorney; attorney defined.

No person shall practice the profession or perform the services
of an attorney at law within this State without being admitted to the
bar as hereinafter directed; and any person who shall give legal
advice, represent any person in the trial of any case at law or in
equity including the trial of any case before [any trial magistrate
or judge of any people's court] the District Court or any proceedings
conducted in orphans' courts of the State, [or in cases before the
People's Court of Baltimore City where the amount involved exceeds
the sum of $100.00] except cases arising under §§ [455 to 462]
9-1 through 9-8, inclusive, of the [Charter and] Code of Public
Local Laws of Baltimore City ([1949] 1969 Edition) or prepare any
written instrument affecting the title to real estate, or give advice in
the administration of probate of estates of decedents in any of the
orphans' courts of this State, for pay or reward shall be deemed an
attorney at law for purposes of this article.

25. Solicitation of clientage from jails, etc.

Any attorney who shall habitually go to the several jails, station-
houses and other places of criminal punishment with the view of
soliciting the clientage of persons confined therein awaiting trial,
without having been first sent for by such persons or by their
friends, or who shall solicit such clientage through sheriffs, con-
stables, jailors or professional lawbreakers, shall be deemed guilty of
a misdemeanor, and upon proper proof before a court of which he
shall be a member of the bar, shall be suspended from practice in all
the courts of this State for a period of not less than one year; and the
judge imposing the suspension shall have the same publicly posted on
the bulletin board of his said court, and shall direct the clerk of his
said court, under a penalty of five dollars for each default, to send
notice of such suspension to the clerk of every other court in the
State. Any sheriff, deputy sheriff, constable, police officer, [justice
of the peace] or other official who shall act as such agent or broker
for any lawyer shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and, on
conviction, shall be fined not less than twenty-five dollars, or be im-
prisoned, in the discretion of the court, for not less than thirty days.

40. Salaries and expense allowances of county State's attorneys,
(b) Allegany County.

(3) The State's Attorney and the deputy State's attorney, or
either of them, shall present cases to the grand jury and perform
such other acts and duties in relation to the grand jury, the Circuit
Court and [magistrates] the District Court as are necessary and
proper. In the absence of the State's Attorney, the deputy State's