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Upon any satisfactory evidence in support of their application, attorneys of any of the courts of the United States, or of the highest court of any state or territory, in good standing where they reside, may be admitted to the Supreme Court and the Court of Appeals on taking the oath prescribed for local attorneys and paying a fee of $5 to the clerk.

Admission on Diploma.

Graduates of the Law Department of the State University, Law School of Mercer University, or of the Atlanta Law School, are admitted without examination upon presentation of diploma and payment of the usual fees.

Admission in Supreme Court and Court of Appeals.

Attorneys who have been licensed in any superior court shall be admitted to the Supreme Court and Court of Appeals upon certificate of two attorneys of that court in good standing that such applicants are of good moral and professional character. Any member of the bar of the Supreme Court may be admitted to practice in the Court of Appeals upon producing satisfactory evidence of such admission and upon taking the prescribed oath. A fee of $5 is required in either case.

Women May be Admitted.

Women are admitted in this state on the same terms and qualifications as men.

Miscellaneous.

Fees of applicants should be remitted to Hon. Alexander C. King, Chairman Board of Examiners, Atlanta, Ga.

All inquiries for information in regard to admission to the bar should be addressed to Hon. Joseph A. Cronk, Secretary Board of Examiners, Savannah, Ga.

Source of Rules.

Civ. Code 1910, §§ 4930-4950; Act Dec. 18, -1897, as amended by Act Dec. 19, 1898; Act Aug. 19, 1916; Rules Sup. Ct.

and Ct. App.; Rules for admission to the bar, furnished by Board of Examiners on application to the secretary.

GEORGIA DECISIONS

1805 to 1917.

A complete set of Georgia Reports (down to 1917) consists of:

T. U. P. Charlton, 1 vol.

R. M. Charlton, 1 vol.

Dudley, 1 vol.

Georgia Decisions, 2 vols.

Georgia Reports, 145 vols.

Georgia Appeals Reports, 17 vols.

All Georgia decisions, from and including vol. 78 of the Supreme and all of the Appeals Reports, are reported in the Southeastern Reporter, 90 vols., together with all decisions for the past 30 years from North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, and West Virginia. Cross-citation tables make the cases perfectly available, however cited. We will be pleased to furnish prices and full information on request.

WEST PUBLISHING Co., St. Paul, Minn.

Citizenship-Age-Character.

Applicant must be a citizen of the United States or shall have declared his intention of becoming a citizen.

Application-Contents-With Whom to be Filed.

He shall file with the clerk of the Supreme Court at Honolulu an application in writing, setting forth his name, age, nationality, last place of residence, and the character and term of his study. Sufficient certificates of his good moral character, and, if he is a member of the bar of any other court, the certificate of admission to such bar, shall also accompany the application.

Examination-Regulation-Time and Place of Holding-Fee -Attorneys from Other Jurisdictions.

Power to examine candidates for admission to the bar of the Supreme Court is vested solely in the Supreme Court. No applicant who is not a member of the bar of the highest court of some other state, territory, or country, or a graduate of a law school of recognized standing, will be admitted or examined for admission to practice in the Supreme Court, unless he shall have studied diligently at least three years in a law school or the office of a competent attorney, or partly in one and partly in the other, and shall have passed an examination. which satisfies the court that his legal qualifications are sufficient. One who has been so admitted, or is a graduate of a law school as aforesaid, shall be admitted here without examination, except that he may be required to pass an examination on local practice and statutory law. Regular examinations will be held at Honolulu during the months of January, April, July, and October. No person whose application has been denied shall apply again for admission within one year. A fee of $10 must be paid to the clerk of the Supreme Court on receipt of a license.

Attorneys in District Courts.

The Supreme Court and the several circuit courts shall have power to examine and admit as practitioners in the district courts such persons, being Hawaiian citizens of good moral character, as said courts may find qualified. Prescribed oath will be administered. License thus granted shall extend over a term of two years, and shall be valid in all the judicial circuits of the territory. A fee of $5 will be paid for the first license, and a fee of $2 for each renewal thereof.

Source of Rules.

Rev. Laws 1915, c. 135, §§ 2323-2328; Sup. Ct. Rule 16, and amendments thereto.

HAWAIIAN DECISIONS

1847 to 1917.

A complete set of Hawaiian Reports (down to 1917) consists of 22 vols.; vol. 22 covering to and including October 7, 1915. There are also 3 vols. of reports of the United States District Court for the District of Hawaii, and two Digests, one covering vols. 1-14 Hawaii Reports, and the other covering vols. 1-22 Hawaii Reports. Write for prices and full information.

WEST PUBLISHING Co., St. Paul, Minn.

Citizenship-Residence-Age-Character.

Any citizen, or person resident of this state who has bona fide declared his intention to become a citizen, 21 years of age, of good moral character, and who intends to engage in the practice of law as a business, may make application for admission to the bar in this state. Applicant's good moral character must be certified to by at least two attorneys of the Supreme Court, in good standing, who have been admitted to practice therein for not less than one year.

Application-Preliminary Requirements-Term of Study-General Qualifications.

The application, in writing, verified by the oath of the applicant, shall be filed with the clerk of the Supreme Court not less than 30 days before the first day of the regular term at which applicant expects to present himself for examination, and shall contain statements of the applicant's full name, age, citizenship, place of residence for the two years immediately preceding the date of his application, with whom he has read law, or in what schools he has studied law, and for how long a period; also the text-books he has read. The application must also be accompanied by a certificate of at least two attorneys of the Supreme Court in good standing, each of whom shall have been regularly engaged in practice for not less than four years next theretofore, stating that they have examined the applicant touching his general educational equipment, from which it appears to them that the applicant is possessed of at least such a degree of general education as would be equivalent to that acquired by reason of having completed a standard high school course. Such certificate shall also contain statements as to the applicant's qualifications in point of learning of the law, the time he has spent upon the study of the law, naming the place

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