Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1905-04-04
|SOME ACTS PASSED BY Legislature
New Laws That viii Be Of Interest 10 the
!. People Of the State
BOARD OF BAR EXAMINERS.

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BOARD OF BAR EXAMINERS.
III. B. No. 70-Ryan)
An Act Creating State Board Of Bar Elk
aminers and Providing for their Appoint
ment, Compensation and Duties.
Be 1t enacted, etc.:
Section 1. AS soon as possible
after the passage, approval and tax
ing effect of this act the justices of
the supreme. court Of this state shall
appoint from the members of the bar
of this state, resident therein and who
shall be learned in the law, three per.
sons to constitute state board of ex.
aminers in law.
Sec. 2. The term of Office of the
members of the said board shall be as
follows: One shall be appointed for
two years, one shall be appointed for
four years and one shall be appointed
for six years, and their successors
shall receive their appointment IN q
like manner for a term of six years
each; but in case Of a vacancy occurr;
ing by. death or otherwise there shall
be appointed in like manner per-
son to serve through the unexpired
term of the member to whose place
he is appointed. .
Sec. 3. The said board shall elect
one of its members president. The
clerk of the supreme court shall be
ex-of1cio secretary and treasurer OF
said board. The said board shall, at
least two times in each year, hold
public examinations for admission to
the bar of this state, which examine
tions shall be both written and oral,
In such places and at such times in
this state as the said board, or ma
jority thereof, shall direct. The said
board shall keep record of all Its
proceedings and also record of all
applications for admission to the bar.
and shall enroll, in book kept for
that purpose, the name Of each per
son admitted as an attorney at law.
Sec. 4 The said board Shall as
soon as practicable thereafter. report
the result Of all examinations, to the
supreme court, with such recommen.
dations for admission as to the said
board shall seem just, and the su-
preme court shall, after considering
said report and said recommendations,
by order. either In term time or ii
vacation, authorize the issuance of
certificates of admission to the bar.
upon taking the oath of Office at such
time and place as such order may
provide. e., s. ...9 80. -;
Sec. 5. The said board shall re-
cefve from each person applying for
examination the sum of ten dollars "A
2 Zee therefor and all fees receiYed
BY said board shall be deposited WITH,
the treasurer Of said board and applied
toward the expenses and compensation
o. the respective members sof said
board. The secretary Of said board
shall be allowed such COMPENSATION
and expenses for his services from
the fees so received as the said board
shall determine. rs ~
Sec. s. There shall be paid out Of
the treasury of said board to each ex-
aminer appointed as aforesaid COM
pensation not exceeding ten dollars
per day and his actual necessary ex-
penses in going to, holding and re.
turning from any such examination:
provided, that all such expenses shall
be paid from the fees received by the
board under the provisions Of tfiis act
and no part Of the compensation or
expenses provided for herein shall be
paid out Of the state treasury.
Sec. 4 No person shall hereafter
be admitted to practice as an attorney
and counsellor at law, or to com
mence. conduct or defend any action
or proceeding in any OF the courts Of
record Of this state, in which he Is
not q party concerned, unless he has
complied with and been admitted nm.
der and pursuant to such rules as the
supreme court OF this state shall pre-
scribe. ... s
Sec. 8. All acts and parts Of acts
in conflict with the provisions Of this
act are expressly repealed. r.
Sec. Q. Emergency.
Approved February Is. 1905.