Rules of Practice. SEC. 4. No applicant shall be admitted to the bar unless a majority of the members conducting the examinations shall certify that they find him to have a competent knowledge of the law and to have sufficient general learning to discharge the duties of an attorney and counselor at law, and shall recommend his admission. Such certificate shall not be made unless the applicant has sustained on his written answers to the printed questions of the examiners an average grade of 75 per cent. on an examination embracing the following subjects: The law of real and personal property, torts, contracts, evidence, pleading, partnership, bailments, negotiable instruments, agency, suretyship, domestic relations, wills, corporations, equity, criminal law, constitutional law and legal ethics. No one shall be admitted to the examination whose educational attainments are not equivalent to those indicated by the completion of the course of study in the public high schools of this state. The following will be accepted as evidence of such attainments: (a) A diploma or certificate of graduation from such high school; (b) a diploma from a college or university of approved standing; (c) a certificate of matriculation in the freshman or a higher class in the academic department of such college; (d) a certificate from the state board of school examiners. Applicants not having such evidence of general learning may, on payment of a fee of five dollars, submit to an examination to be held at Columbus on the third Tuesday of each September, by a committee to be appointed by the court for that purpose. A certificate from such committee that the applicant's attainments are equivalent to those of such high school course will be sufficient evidence of general learning. This requirement as to general education shall apply to all Rules of Practice. whose certificates of entrance upon the study of law are filed with the clerk of this court after December 31, 1900. Such evidence of general education must be filed with the clerk of this court at least ten days before the examination for admission. No one will be admitted to the examination who has not attained the age of twenty-one years. The printed interrogatories and the answers of applicants thereto shall be submitted to the court with the report of the examiners, and, together with all certificates and papers required under this rule, shall be filed with the clerk and preserved. SEC. 5. Every resident of this state who commences the study of law on and after January 1, 1898, either under the tuition of an attorney at law, or at a law school whether located in this state or elsewhere, shall file with the clerk of the Supreme Court the certificate of such attorney or of the chief officer of such law school, as the case may be, showing his name, age and residence, and the date when he commenced the study of law, which certificates shall be accompanied by a fee of fifty cents. As to all such persons the three years' study of law required by section 560 of the Revised Statutes, shall date from the filing of such certificate. SEC. 6. Every resident of this state who shall have commenced the study of law prior to January 1, 1898, shall on or before the first day of March, 1898, file with the clerk a certificate of his preceptor, or of the chief officer of his law school, showing his name, age and residence, and the time when and the place where, and under whom he commenced the study of law, which certificate shall be accompanied by a fee of fifty cents. Rules of Practice. SEC. 7. Every person who shall commence the study of law while a non-resident of this state, and who has not been regularly admitted as an attorney at law in some court of record within the United States, shall, on coming into this state to reside, file with the clerk an affidavit showing that he has come into the state for the purpose of making it his permanent residence, and stating his name, age, and present or former residence, and also the certificate of his preceptor, or of the chief officer of his law school, showing the time when, and the place, or places, where and under whom he has studied law, which papers shall be accompanied by a fee of fifty cents. The one year's residence in this state required of such persons by section 560 of the Revised Statutes shall date from the filing of such papers. SEC. 8. Every person entitled to be admitted to the examination, under section 560 of the Revised Statutes, on the ground that he has been regularly admitted as an attorney and counselor at law in some court of record within the United States, shall, not more than sixty days nor less than thirty days before the time fixed for the examination, file with the clerk (1) an affidavit showing that he is a resident of this state or that he has come into the state for the purpose of making it his permanent residence, and stating his name, age, and former and present residence. (2) His certificate of admission to the bar, which, if issued less than three years before such filing, must be accompanied by the certificate of his preceptor, showing the extent and character of his study of the law, and (3) the certificate of a judge of the court of record in which he has practiced law, showing the time such judge has personally known him, and his moral and professional standing at such bar, which application Rules of Practice. and papers shall be accompanied by an examination fee of $8.00, and a registry fee of fifty cents. SEC. 9. If the filing of any affidavit, certificate or other paper required by this rule has been omitted by excusable mistake or without fault, the court may order such filing as of the proper date. SEC. 10. Except as provided in section 8, concerning persons who have been admitted to the bar in some court of record within the United States, every person who desires to have his name enrolled for examination must not more than sixty nor less than thirty days before the time fixed for the examination, file with the clerk his application for admission to the bar, giving his name, age, residence and postoffice address, and with such application the certificate of qualification required by section 560 or 561 of the Revised Statutes, as the case may be. Except as provided in section 561 of the Revised Statutes, each applicant must produce a certificate of qualification as required by section 560 of the Revised Statutes, signed by his preceptor, and in no case will the certifi cate of any other attorney or counselor at law be received unless it be shown by the affidavit of the applicant that his preceptor is dead or that his certificate cannot, for some reason satisfactory to the court, be obtained. In case the length of study shown by the certificate falls short, by sixty days or less of a fll three years' course, a supplemental certificate may be presented by the applicant at the time of the examination, showing, with such former certificate, a full three years' study. And in every case the certificate must show that the certifier has personal knowledge of the length of time the applicant has been engaged in the study of law. The certificate shall also show Rules of Practice. the name and postoffice address of the applicant's preceptor. SEC. 11. No certificate, affidavit or other paper produced in conformity with this rule shall be deemed conclusive evidence of the fact therein stated, and in all cases the court must be satisfied of the truth thereof before the applicant shall be admitted to examination. SEC. 12. Every application for admission to an examination must be accompanied by an examination fee of eight dollars, which will be returned to the applicant if his name is not placed on the examination roll. If his name is placed on the examination roll, and he fails to receive a certificate of qualification, he shall not be required to pay any further sum upon a second application. For each subsequent application a fee of eight dollars shall be paid. If the applicant, on examination, shall be rejected, he may be admitted to the next examination upon filing a certificate that he has studied law for six months subsequently to the date of his former examination; but no one shall be admitted to more than five examinations after this 20th day of December, 1900, and the fifth examination shall not be less than two years after the fourth and during the intervening two years said applicant shall regularly and attentively study law, and he shall furnish the prescribed certificate thereof. SEC. 13. After the expiration of the thirtieth day before the examination the court will examine the papers filed by the applicant, and cause him to be notified whether he will be admitted to the examination unconditionally, or subject to the production of a supplemental certificate of additional study, when that may be necessary, and if so admitted, will |