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of an attorney and counsellor-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. As a condition of admission to the examination, each applicant shall produce a diploma or certificate showing that he is a graduate or matriculate of a college or university, a graduate of a public high school, or of a private academy of equivalent standing, or the holder of a certificate issued by the board of school examiners, under section 4074, Revised Statutes, or a diploma of graduation from any of the common schools of the state, under what is known as the Boxwell law, as amended April 18, 1896 (92 Ohio Laws, 198). The printed interrogatories and the answers of the 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-atlaw, 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,

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which certificate 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 the 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.

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 attorneyat-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 and 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 counsellorat-law in some court of record within the United

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States, shal', not more than sixty 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 the 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 and papers shall be accompanied by an examination fee of $5.00, 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

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section 560 of the Revised Statutes, signed by his preceptor, and in no case will the certificate of any other attorney or counsellor-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 full 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 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 facts 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 $5.00, which will be returned to the applicant if his name is not placed on the examination rolì. 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 $5.00 shall be paid. If the applicant, on examination, shall be rejected, he may be admitted to an examination after six months from the date of such rejection, upon filing a certificate that he or she has studied law for six

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months subsequent to date of the former examination. But an applicant rejected at the October examination may be admitted to the following March examination upon producing a proper certificate of study from the date of such rejection. And all rejected applicants who have been reported by the committee as having reached a grade of sixty-one hundredths may be admitted to the next following examination upon producing a like certificate of study.

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 cause his name to be placed on the examination roll which will be delivered to the Standing Committee.

SEC. 14. The Standing Committee may, subject to the approval of the court, make rules not inconsistent herewith for the conduct of the examinations, which, together with this rule, shall be published in pamphlet form for distribution by the Standing Committee.

SEC. 15. The applicant, upon receiving the oath of office, shall sign a roll showing the date of his admission and his place of residence.

SEC. 16. The Clerk shall enter the date of the filing of all papers under this rule, with a pertinent description of the same, in a record provided for that purpose, and shall enter all sums received under this rule in a cash book, showing the date, from whom and for what received, and shall pay the same out upon the order of the Chief Justice