Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-03-13
CLOSE OF THE WEEK.
Without Appearance Of the
Expected Saturday Session.
Many Measures Pushed Along At
Fridays Session.
Bill Regulating Admission Of Attorneys :
Afternoon Committee Work.

The 10th week closed its legislative
work Friday noon and for the 10th
time the members hurried off home for
Sunday visit without remaining for
Saturday session. 1t is commonly
agreed that adjournment will come in
two weeks more. but the disposition to
rush matters is not yet very apparent
Next week there Is only a little com
mittee work on the programme and ii
is likely two sessions will become in or
der. and possibly Saturday session.
Yesterday mornings session of the
House continued two hours and was
full of business. OF the three bills as
signed for the day the one abolishing
days of grace was passed without a
murmur of opposition; the one relating
to the packing of snrdines. with FIVE
amendments tackled on by Gen. Muir
ray of Pembroke, was finally passed
after an animated debate resulting in
the rejection of an amendment by Mr.,
Newcomb of PASSPORT, designed to keep
ire close time as at present; and the
one relating to free high schools was
the occasion Of an hour tlebate partici-
pated in by Boynton of Sullivan, Pat
tangall OF Machias, Burns of West
brook; Smith of Hampden Hamilton of
l5iddeford. Blanchard of Wilton, Walton
of Skowhegan and others. This bill con-
tains provision that no school receiv-
ing State aid as a free high school
shall also receive aid as an academy
and the debate was on MIR. Boynton's
amendment striking out this provis-
| ion Thpca
the real meaning Of the bill and amend
ment. and finally On motion of Mr..
Merrill of Portland, both We're laid over
for consideration later.
dozen measures lying on the table
We're takenup and pushed along on their
passage without opposition. Among the
many spectators present were score of
Monmouth academy pupils and teach
ers. Almost no new business appeared at
Fridays House session. There was an
act to incorporate the Lubec Water
Company; an act to permit the Patten
and Sherman Railroad Company to sell
or lease it's road, and resolve for $3.50
in favor of Perkins plantation to cor
rect an erroneous assessment of county
tax for 1891 and 1892.
Maine Relief Corps Soldiers Home at
Newport was assigned for next Thurs
day, on motion of Billings of Waldo
On motion of Walls of Knox. the re-
solve in favor of Castine normal
school was passed to be engrossed UNI
der suspension of rule.-Walls of Knox.
presented resolve providing that $3.50
be appropriated to be expended by the
adjutant general under direction of the
Governor and Council for the purchase
of uniforms and camp and garrison
equipage and for building of mess
houses and cook houses on the camp
ground for Company NJ. 1st Regiment.
at Westbrook, and Company NJ. I'd
Regiment. at Machias.
Stearns of Aroostook. presented an
act to regulate the admission to prec-
tice of attorneys, to provide for a
beard of examiners and to repeal all
acts conflicting Herewith. The bill
provides that attorneys of other states
may be admitted on motion to try any
case in court Of the State, but shall
not be admitted to the general prac-
tice of law in this State without COM
plying with the provisions of this act.
Every other person of full age, resi-
dent of the United States and of good
moral character. may be admitted to
practice as an attorney and counselor
at law and solicitor and counselor in
chancery in all courts of record of this
State on motion made in open court.
but the applicant must first prcdrco a
certificate from the board of exami-
rers to be appointed.b by the Governor on
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the superior judicial court, that he
possesses sufficient learning in the law.
No person shall be entitled to practice
until he is licensed to do so by the said
courts. The Governor shall on recon-
mendation of the chief justice of the
supreme judicial court and on or be-
fore the first of July. 1897, appoint a
beard of examiners composed of five
competent lawyers of this State. for
the examination of applicants for adj
mission to the bar, whose office shall
be as follows: One for one year, one
for two years. one for three years. one
| for four years and one for five years,
and thereafter each year the Governor
shall appoint one member for the term
of five years. The board shall meet
ANNUALLY at Portland in January. at
Bangor in April, at Augusta in OctO
Der during the session of the supreme
judicial court. and also at such other
time as the supreme judicial court shall
so direct for the purpose Of examining
all applicants for admission to the bar,
and on such examination being had
the board shall issue to such applicants
as shall pass the required examination
a certificate of qualification stating the
standard Of applicants and recommend
ling their admission to the bar. Such
board shall elect from their number a
secretary and treasurer and shall make
such rules and regulations relating to
said examination as to them may seem
proper The president of said board
shall be the member, whose term of Of
fee is soonest to expire. Three men,
bers shall constitute quorum. Appli-
cants must file evidence to effect that
they are of good moral character and
, have studied law in the office of an
attorney or in some recognized law
schocl for at least three years prior to