The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-08-30
Large Class Tolls on the
Courts Questions.
A SAFE EXAMINATION
While They Covered the Ground, Law
Students Find Judge Douglass
Questions Such as 10 Leave
Them Confident---Quer.
les Set Out in Full.

The class of applicants for license
the Senate Chamber from 10 O'Clock
yesterday morning until 5 o'clock in
the afternoon struggling with the
questions propounded by Justice Robt
Nj. Douglass, one of the retiring mem
bers of the court.
After the class had assembled the
members We're addressed by Justice
Douglass on their duties to the profess
son into which the larger portion of
them are about to enter
The class numbers fifty-two men.
OF these five are negroes and all but
nine have been in attendance on some
law school in preparation for today S
examination. 1t is on the whole q fine
and intelligent looking body of men.
While the majority of the applicants
have recently come of age, some few
are mature and settled men. OF the
latter an applicant of fifty years at
least made sharp contrast with his
full beard iron gray hair, and wrin-
Killed. brow to the fresher faces of his
younger brethren
Many of the applicants finished the
examination before the time limited by
the court. All of these express them
selves as confident of having answered
the questions propounded satisfactor-
lily and as being pleased with the ex-
animation, which was thorough but
not overly difficult. This view will be
agreed in by lawyers who peruse
the questions which are set out be-
low. Ex-Judge Jas. C. MacRae, Dean
of the University School. and DR.
Thomas Ruffin. Associate Professor.
1,
with the examination and as being
confident that all the graduates of
their school had passed. Prof. N. Y.
Gulley, of Wake Forest, was also in
the city. having come down with the
class from that institution.
Each member of the Supreme court
took a turn yesterday in presiding in
the chair of the President of the Sen
ate over the labors of the class. No
one save the applicants for license, the
judges and the marshal was allowed
i'm the chamber during the time of the
exam nation.
The Questions Asked.
The questions which the applicants
for license were. expected to answer
satisfactorily were as follows:
Preliminary Questions.
A. Are you q years of age? If not,
when will y0Sl become so?
IL. Haze you read law for two years ?
G. Have you read the course pre-
Scribed by the Rules of Court or its
just equivalent.
Constitutional Law.
1. What provision is there in the
Constitution of this State as to "sepa,
rate emoluments or privileges?
?. What says the Constitution of
this State as 10 1.-The ancient mode
of trial by jury?
4. What says the Constitution of this
state as to the powers that remain
with the people?
5. What says the Constitution of
this State as to how corporations 9TH
or than municipal may sue and be
sued?
g. What does the Fifth Amendment
TO the Constitution of the United States
provide as to due process of law?
Z. What are the provisions of the
said Constitution upon the same sub
ject in its Fourteenth Amendment?
8. What are the signs" considered
i'm the Interpretation of laws at the
common law?
8. What is the common law doc