P. G. L., (1860,) art. 11, sec. 1. 1715, ch. 48. 1783, ch. 17. 1831, ch. 268. 1. No attorney or other person shall practise the law in any of the courts of this State without being admitted thereto as herein directed.

Ibid. sec. 2. 1831, ch. 268, sec. 1.

2. All applications for admission as attorney to practise the law in this State shall be made to some one of the circuit courts for the counties, the supreme bench of Baltimore city, or to the court of appeals, in open court.

Ibid. sec. 3. 1831, ch. 268, sec. 2. 1876, ch. 264. 1888, ch. 204.

3. Upon every such application for any male citizen of Maryland, above the age of twenty-one years, and who shall have been a student of law in any part of the United States for at least two years previous to said application, it shall be the duty of

the court to which such application shall be made, to appoint an examining board of not less than three members of the bar, who shall examine the applicant in the presence of the court, touching his qualification for admission as an attorney, and the said court shall also require and receive evidence of his probity and general character; and if upon such actual examination, and being satisfied that he has been a student of law for at least two years, and having heard evidence of his probity and general character, the said court shall be of the opinion that said applicant is qualified to discharge the duties of an attorney, and worthy to be admitted, the said court shall admit him; and the circuit court for the counties, and the supreme bench of Baltimore city, are authorized to appoint a permanent examining board, but no member of said board shall be appointed for a longer period than one year. Graduates of the law department of the University of Maryland shall be entitled to admission upon the production of their diplomas, without undergoing such examination, and upon offering such evidence of their probity and general character as the court shall require.

Matter of Charles Taylor, 48 Md. 30.

P. G. L., (1860,) art. 11, sec. 4. 1831, ch. 268, sec. 3.

4. Upon the admission of any applicant to practise law in any of the courts of this State above mentioned, it shall be the duty of the court so admitting him to certify the same with their own proper signatures; which certificate shall be recorded, and a copy thereof, authenticated with the seal of the court, shall be available and sufficient to entitle the applicant so admitted to admission to practise in any of the courts of this State.

Ibid. sec. 5. 1831, ch. 268, sec. 4.

5. If, upon the application and examination of any citizen as aforesaid, the court shall be of opinion that he ought not to be admitted, the said applicant shall not again be entitled to a hearing for admission in any court of this State until the expiration of twelve months after the first application; and if upon a second application he shall be rejected, he shall not again be heard until the expiration of twelve months after such second application.

P. G. L., (1860,) art. 11, sec. 6. 1831, ch. 268, sec. 5.

6. Upon the application of any lawyer who may have practised, or who may have been licensed to practise in any otherState, district or territory of the United States, for admission to practise in the courts of this State, it shall be the duty of the court to whom he shall apply, to admit him upon the terms and under the same regulations that a citizen of Maryland would be admitted to the courts of the State, district or territory in which said applicant may have practised, or may have been licensed to practise; provided, that in the said State, district or territory, the mode and terms of admission to the bar be regulated by law.

7. Upon the application to practise law in any of the courts. of this State, of any citizen of any other State, district or territory, in which the mode and terms of admission to the bar are not regulated by law, the said courts shall admit him or not, as in their discretion they may think fit.

Ibid. sec. 8. 1783, ch. 17. 1831, ch. 268, sec. 7.

8. If, upon the rejection of any applicant for admission to practise law in any circuit court in this State, or in the supreme bench of Baltimore city, such applicant shall deem himself aggrieved by such rejection, he may apply to the court of appeals for admission to practise law in said court, who shall examine such applicant as to his qualifications, character and time of studying, in manner and subject to the regulation hereinbefore provided as to such examination; and if, upon such examination, the court of appeals shall determine that the applicant ought to be admitted to practise in the court of appeals, he shall be admitted accordingly; and such admission shall entitle him to admission to practise in any court of this State.

State v. Johnson, 2 H. & McH. 160,

Ibid. sec. 9. 1831, ch. 268, sec. 1. 1878, ch. 400.

9. All persons who are now or shall hereafter be admitted to practise law in the court of appeals of this State, shall be entitled to practise law in any or all other courts of the State,

upon exhibiting to the judge or clerk thereof a duly authenticated certificate of such admission to the bar of the court of appeals.

P. G. L., (1860,) art. 11, sec. 10. 1777, ch. 5, sec. 1. 1854, ch. 18, sec. 2. 1865, ch. 114. 1867, ch. 126.

10. Every attorney or other practitioner at law shall in open court take and subscribe the following oath or affirmation: I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will at all times demean myself fairly and honorably as an attorney and practitioner at law; that I will bear true allegiance to the State of Maryland, and support the laws and constitution thereof, and that I will bear true allegiance to the United States, and that I will support, protect and defend the constitution, laws and government thereof as the supreme law of the land; any law or ordinance of this or any State to the contrary notwithstanding.

Ibid. sec. 11. 1719, ch. 4, sec. 2.

11. The judges of the several courts of this State shall observe the demeanor of all attorneys practising the law before them, who shall use any indecent liberties to the lessening the grandeur and authority of their respective courts, and shall discountenance and punish the same according to the nature of the offense, either by suspending such attorney from his practice perpetually, or for a time, or by fine (at the discretion of the court) not exceeding fifty dollars for any one offense.

Ibid. sec. 12. 1721, ch. 14, sec. 2.

12. Any attorney who, by his negligence in bringing a cause to a decision within the time limited by law, shall suffer such cause to be discontinued, shall forfeit the sum of one hundred dollars, and all costs of suit accrued on any action discontinued by his default; one-half to the party grieved, and the other half to the State, for the use and benefit of the county where such fines arise.

Ibid. sec. 13. 1722, ch. 12, sec. 4.

13. The several courts of this State may, in their discretion, where it shall appear to them that any plaintiff or defendant in any action brought in said courts shall suffer by the negligence

or omission of the attorney, immediately adjudge such attorney to pay the lawful costs accruing from such plaintiff or defendant through such neglect or omission, not exceeding ten dollars; but if the costs exceed that sum, then the plaintiff or defendant shall be left to his remedy at common law; and every attorney practising in the court of any county or city whereof he is not an inhabitant, may be sued in such county or city for any such omission or neglect as if he resided therein.

P. G. L., (1860,) art. 11, sec. 15. 1715, ch. 41, sec. 9.

14. No sheriff or deputy sheriff, warden or keeper of a jail, or any of his deputies; no warden or keeper of the penitentiary, or deputy warden or keeper thereof, shall be admitted to practise as attorney in any of the courts of this State; and if any of said officers shall practise law in any court of this State, he shall forfeit fifty dollars for each offense.

Ibid. sec. 16. 1786, ch. 10. 1862, ch. 179. 1868, ch. 404.

15. No register of wills or clerk of any court shall practise as attorney at law in any of the courts of this State, whatsoever; nor shall any deputy register of wills, or any deputy clerk of any court, practise as attorney at law in any court of this State of which he is an officer, or to which he may be attached as a deputy or assistant officer.

Ibid. sec. 17. 1715, ch. 41, sec. 9. 1791, ch. 76, sec. 3. 1796, ch. 43, sec. 8. 16. No judge of any court of this State, including the judges of the orphans' courts, shall act as attorney or solicitor in any court of law or equity in this State, during the time for which he shall act as such.

State's Attorney.

P. G. L., (1860,) art. 11, sec. 18. 1821, ch. 126. 1862, ch. 177.

17. The State's attorney for each county shall, in such county, prosecute and defend, on the part of the State, all cases in which the State may be interested.

McCauley v. State, 21 Md. 568.

Ibid. sec. 19. 1795, ch. 74, sec. 2.

18. He shall, ex officio, on the application of the sheriff of his county, order execution to be issued for the recovery of all