sions of the food and beverage laws of this State. Only those products shall be sold by numerical count which cannot well be sold by weight or measure. All foods not liquid, if sold by measure, shall be sold by standard dry measure, the quart of which contains sixty-seven twenty one-hundredths cubic inches. Approved May 2, 1913. [No. 163.] AN ACT to regulate the admission to practice of attorneys, solicitors and counselors in the several courts in this State, to provide for a board of examiners and to repeal act number two hundred five of the Public Acts of eighteen hundred ninety-five, as amended by act number ninety-three of the Public Acts of eighteen hundred ninety-seven and all other acts and parts of acts in conflict herewith. The People of the State of Michigan enact: how admitted. SECTION 1. Any practicing attorney resident of another Non-resident state or territory of the United States or of a foreign country attorneys, may be admitted on motion, by the court to try a certain case in such court; but shall not be admitted to the general trial of cases in such court or to the general practice of the law in this State without complying with the provisions of this act. SEC. 2. Any person being a citizen of this State or a citi- Who admitted zen of one of the other states or territories of the United to practice. States who proves to the satisfaction of the board of examiners that it is his intention to maintain an office in this State for the practice of the law and to practice in this State, who has been admitted and licensed to practice in the court of last resort of a state or territory of the United States, or in the District of Columbia, and whose principal business for three years or more immediately preceding his application for admission has been the practice of law in the courts of record in such state, territory or district, may be admitted to the general practice of the law in this State on complying with the terms of this section as follows: He shall file his Terms of application with the board of examiners showing his qualifica- section. tions as above prescribed together with the written recommendation of one of the judges of one of the courts named above in this section as to character, education and ability, and a certified copy of the certificates, affidavits and other papers not including examination questions and answers which were submitted upon his application for admission in Fee. Board of law examiners. Examinations, where held, etc. Quorum. such aforesaid state or territory. He shall pay to the said SEC. 3. There shall be a board of law examiners, consist- SEC. 4. Any person of legal age, who is a resident and citi Who admitted zen of the United States, who has had the general education to practice. prescribed in section five of this act and who is of good moral character, may be admitted to practice as an attorney and counselor at law and solicitor and counselor in chancery in all the courts of record of this State on motion made in the supreme court or any circuit court of the State, but the applicant shall first produce the certificate provided for in section three of this act, from the board of examiners, that he possesses sufficient learning in the law, good moral character and ability to enable him to properly practice as an attorney and counselor at law and solicitor and counselor in chancery in the courts of this State: Provided, That in case Proviso. of admission to practice by the circuit court the clerk of said court shall forthwith send a transcript of the record of such admission to the clerk of the supreme court, whose duty it shall be to enter the name of the attoney so admitted on the roll of attorneys of said court. No person shall be entitled to practice as an attorney and counselor at law and solicitor and counselor in chancery in this State until he shall be licensed to do so by said courts. No person shall be denied admission to practice as an attorney and counselor at law and solicitor and counselor in chancery on account of sex. SEC. 5. Satisfactory evidence, as prescribed by the rules Qualifications, of the board of examiners, shall be produced by the appli- evidence of. cant of his name, residence, citizenship, good moral character and the possession of a general education including the completion of a four years' high school course, or equiv alent work, and that he has been a resident student for the period of three years in a duly incorporated college or university organized under the laws of this or any other State, or four years in a law office under the supervision of a reputable attorney in good standing, who shall prescribe and direct the course of study of such applicant, examining him at regular intervals and certifying as to the work done, the books studied and the proficiency attained by the applicant. A fee Fee. to be fixed by a rule of the board of not more than fifteen dollars shall accompany the application. Proof of the possession of the general education herein before prescribed may be made by presenting a diploma of graduation from the liberal arts or corresponding department of any reputable college or university, or of a State normal school of this State, or of a high school of this State requiring a four years' course including at least fifteen units of work of the high school grade, or of a reputable institution of similar character and with equivalent requirements of this or any other State. Graduates of reputable law schools (or others who Certificate have completed the regular course of study in such schools) school. requiring a three years' course for graduation and a four years' high school course, or its equivalent, for admission, may in lieu of the foregoing certificates present a certificate from the law school from which the applicant has been grad from law examination. Who ineligible. uated, which certificate shall show in detail the high school work, or its equivalent, upon which said applicant was admitted to said law school, or that the applicant before admission was examined by said law school as to his preliminary education, and that the same was found upon such examination to be in fact equal to four years' high school course or Written, etc.. its equivalent. The applicant shall be required to submit to a written examination prepared by said board, and also to such oral examination as the board may think proper. The subjects upon which applicants shall be examined shall be determined and published by the said Board of Law Examiners, who shall also make and publish rules and regulations concerning the conduct of said examination and the scholarship grades to be obtained. No person who has not completed the regular course of study of a reputable law school with a three years' course shall be eligible to the examinations for admission to the bar, unless at least four years before he takes such examinations, he has filed with the secretary of the Board of Law Examiners a statement supported by his affidavit, and that of the attorney under whom he proposes to study, to the effect that he is beginning the study of law with said preceptor, giving the name and address of the same, and that he proposes to apply for admission to the bar when eligi ble: Provided, That any student now engaged in the study of law under a preceptor in a law office may qualify under the provisions of this act by filing notice of his intentions and proof as is provided in this section, within six months from the passage of this act. Blanks for these purposes shall be furnished by the board of examiners: Provided also, That any person actually enrolled in the department of law of the University of Michigan, Detroit College of Law or the law department of the University of Detroit prior to the time this act takes effect and who shall have completed the full prescribed law course in and have been graduated from the law department of any of the above mentioned institutions shall be admitted to practice at the bar of all the courts of this State upon the production of a diploma authenticated by the proper officers and duly sealed by the said University of Michigan, Detroit College of Law or University of Detroit: Provided further, That a student may enter any reputable law school without credits for a full high school course or its equivalent if he is deficient not more than twenty-five per cent of such high school course or its equivalent, and he makes up such deficiency before the beginning of the third year of his law course. Proviso. Proviso, law graduates, etc. Further proviso. Examination filed, etc. SEC. 6. The examination papers shall be kept on file in the papers, where office of the secretary of the board, and a record of such application and the name of the applicant and his qualifications and general standing as ascertained by each examination, and the secretary of the board shall furnish each applicant with a card, showing the proficiency he has attained in each branch or subject upon which he has been examined, whether a certificate is issued or not. Any applicant failing to pass Re-examinathe examination may again apply after six months by show- tion. ing to the board that he has diligently pursued the study of law six months prior to the examination, and he shall not be required to pay an extra fee for the second examination. For each subsequent examination the applicant shall pay to Fee. said board a fee of ten dollars. No person shall be eligible to more than three examinations within a period of three years. of board. SEC. 7. The board of examiners shall receive as compensa- Per diem" tion for their services twenty-five dollars per day for the compensation time actually spent and their necessary expenses incurred in the discharge of their duties as examiners in going to, holding and returning from such examinations; and the other necessary expenses of the board shall also be paid, all to be audited and certified by the clerk or one of the judges of the supreme court: Provided, however, That all compensation Proviso. for services or expenses of the members of the board shall not exceed the amount received as fees from applicants. Any excess of fees received from applicants over the amount necessary to pay any sums for the future compensation and expenses of the members of said board and the expenses of said board, shall be turned into the State treasury by the treasurer of said board on the first day of July of each year. SEC. 8. Act number two hundred five of the public acts of Act repealed. eighteen hundred ninety-five, as amended by act number ninety-three of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, being compiler's sections one thousand one hundred nineteen, one thousand one hundred twenty, one thousand one hundred twenty-one, one thousand one hundred twenty-two, one thousand one hundred twenty-three, one thousand one hundred twenty-four, and one thousand one hundred twenty-five of the compiled laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven and all other acts or parts of acts so far as they may conflict with this act are hereby repealed. Approved May 2, 1913. [No. 164.] AN ACT to require the filing of certificates of copartnership, fixing the liability of copartners and providing a penalty for violation of the provisions of this act. The People of the State of Michigan enact: co-partner SECTION 1. No two or more persons shall hereafter be en- Certificate of gaged in carrying on any business as copartners unless such ship, what to persons shall first make and file with the county clerk of the set forth. county in which such copartnership business is or shall be |