tificate above prescribed shall be deemed to take effect as of the date of the completion of the regents' examination, as the same shall appear upon said certificate. Attendance on a law school during a school year of not less than eight months in any year, shall be deemed a year's attendance under this rule; and in computing the period of clerkship a vacation actually taken, not exceeding two months in each year, shall be allowed as part of such year. It shall be the duty of attorneys, with whom a clerkship shall be commenced, to file a certificate of the same in the office of the clerk of the court of appeals, which certificate shall in each case state the date of the beginning of the period of clerkship, and such period shall be deemed to commence at the time of such filing, and shall be computed by the calendar year. The same period of time shall not be duplicated for different purposes, except that a student attending a law school as herein provided, and who, during the vacations of such school, not exceeding three months in any one year, shall pursue his studies in the office of a practicing attorney, shall be allowed to count the time so occupied during such vacation or vacations, as part of the clerkship in a law office specified in these rules. RULE VI. The state board of law examiners, before admitting an applicant to an examination, shall require proof that the preliminary conditions prescribed by these rules have been fulfilled, which proof shall be made as follows, viz.: 1. That the applicant is a college graduate, by the production of his diploma or certificate of graduation under the seal of the college. 2. That he has been admitted to the bar of another state or country, by the production of his license or certificate executed by the proper authorities. 3. That he has served a regular clerkship in the office of a practicing attorney of the supreme court in this state, after the age of eighteen years, by producing and filing with the board a certified copy of the attorney's certificate as filed in the office of the clerk of the court of appeals, and producing and filing an affidavit of the attorney or attorneys with whom such clerkship was served, showing the actual service of such a clerkship, the continuance and end thereof, and that not more than two months' vacation was taken in any one year. 4. The time of study allowed in a law school must be proved by the certificate of the teacher or president of the faculty under whose instructions the person has studied, under the seal of the school, if such there be, in addition to the affidavit of the applicant, which must also state the age at which the applicant began his attendance at such law school, which proof must be satisfactory to the board of examiners. 5. That the applicant has passed the regents' examination or its equivalent, must be proved by the production of a certified copy of the regents' certificate filed in the office of the clerk of the court of appeals, as hereinbefore provided. 6. When it satisfactorily appears that any diploma, affidavit, or certificate required to be produced has been lost or destroyed without the fault of the applicant, or has been unjustly refused or withheld, or by the death or absence of the person or officer who should have made it, cannot be obtained, the board of law examiners may accept such other proof of the requisite facts as they shall deem sufficient. 7. A law student whose clerkship or attendance at a law school has already begun, as shown by the record of the court of appeals, or of any incorporated law school, or law school established in connection with any college or university, may at his option file or produce instead of the proofs required by these rules those required by the rules of the court of appeals adopted October 28, 1892. RULE VII. When the filing of a certificate as required by these rules has been omitted by excusable mistake, or without fault, the court may order such filing as of the proper date. All certificates heretofore issued to law students by the board of regents and founded upon equivalents instead of an actual examination, are validated and made effectual, and may be accepted as sufficient by the board of law examiners. RULE VIII. The state board of law examiners shall be paid as compensation, each the sum of two thousand dollars per year, and, in addition, such further sum as the court may direct, and an annual sum not exceeding two thousand dollars per year shall be allowed for necessary disbursements of the board. Every applicant for examination shall pay to the examiners a fee of fifteen dollars, which shall be applied upon the compensation and allowance above provided, and any surplus thereafter remaining shall be held by the treasurer of the state board of law examiners and deposited in some bank, in good standing, in the city of Albany, to his credit and subject to his draft as such treasurer when approved by the chief judge. The examinations held by such state board of examiners may be conducted by oral or written questions and answers, or partly oral and partly written, but shall be as nearly uniform in the knowledge and capacity which they shall require, as is reasonably possible. An applicant who has failed to pass one examination cannot again be examined, until at least three months after such failure. RULE IX. The state board of law examiners shall hold at least one examination in each judicial department, at the city or village in which the appellate divisions of the supreme court are held, between the tenth day of June and the twentieth day of July in each year, and one examination in each department at the places above named, during the month of January in each year. They may appoint other times and places for additional examinations and may hold some or all of such additional examinations concurrently with the regular or annual examination of any law school in this state, and any applicant entitled to be examined, may be so examined, in any department whether a resident therein or not. These rules shall take effect on January 1, 1896. RULE X. In all cases where, after the applicant shall have commenced his period of law study as provided by these rules, he has engaged in the military or naval service of the United States of America in its late war with Spain, the time of such service shall be included as a part of the period of study required by Rule IV. The proof of compliance with preliminary requirements under Rule VI with respect to such service shall be made to the satisfaction of the board of law examiners. Henry E. Turner Livingston Chautauqua... Clifford D. Gregory. Joseph Aspinall Edward P. Coyne.. Madison John E. Smith. Monroe Montgomery... John D. Wendell.. Nassau Robert Seabury. Hempstead. 1898 New York Rufus B. Cowing.. New York city. * Appointed by the Governor, vice Frederick W. Kruse, resigned. Appointed by the Governor, vice Albert H. Sewell, resigned. City Judge of the city of New York. Term, fourteen years; sec tion 2, chapter 259, Laws of 1875. Chautauqua... Egbert E. Woodbury Charles R. Pratt. Rowland C. Kellogg. Sheldon B. Mead Geneseo. Morrisville Rochester Elmira 1896 1896 1899 1895 W. Crawford Ramsdale. Albion. 1895 Otsego Lynn J. Arnold.. Putnam William Wood. Queens Daniel Noble Rensselaer Albert C. Comstock Fulton Cold Spring Long Island City Lansingburgh. New Brighton Piermont. Ogdensburg Saratoga Spr'gs. Schenectady. Cobleskill * Additional Surrogate, 1895 Cooperstown |