Admission to the bar.

information as to the contents of said questions; and that I did not, while said examination was in progress, use or refer to any memorandum of any kind, or receive, directly or indirectly, from any source whatever, any suggestion, aid, or assistance in answering said questions, but that I wrote each and every answer exclusively from knowl edge derived from a previous study of the law. I do further swear that I have not made or retained any copy, or memorandum, of any portion of said questions. I do further swear that I have made and written the foregoing answers within the time prescribed by the rules."

And no examination paper shall be considered by the Board of Examiners unless such examination paper is accompanied by the foregoing affidavit.

6. Each application for admission to the bar, the attorney's certificate therewith presented, the applicant's above mentioned oath, and a paper with his number written thereon, shall be by him sealed in an envelope and left with the Judge, along with the list of questions handed to the applicant, and his examination paper, which shall be carefully folded so as to conceal from view the number thereto signed. The Judge shall immediately destroy the list of questions, and without inspecting the number affixed to the examination paper, shall at once forward the same, together with the affidavit of the applicant, as prescribed in Rule 5, to the Chairman of the Board of Examiners. in a securely sealed envelope, upon which shall be written the Judge's official signature. Said envelope must be sent by express or registered mail at the applicant's expense.

7. Passing upon the examination; certificate of Board.-It shall be the duty of the Board of Examiners to pass upon the merits of each examination and the question of admitting each applicant to the bar. For this purpose they may meet at such times and places as they may themselves select, bearing in mind that it is hereby inade incumbent upon them to act upon each examination with reasonable promptness. No applicant shall be entitled to admission to the bar unless he shall satisfactorily answer what is equivalent in value to seventy (70) per cent. of the questions propounded, giving to each question, or series of questions, such value as their relative importance or difficulty may make proper. After acting on each examination paper, the Board shall transmit a certificate, together with the affidavit of the applicant relating thereto, to the Judge from whom such paper was received. Each certificate shall be signed officially by the members of the Board or any two of them. When in the opinion of said Board an applicant has successfully passed the examination and is qualified for admission to the bar, the certificate shall be in the following form:

Ga., ......18..

Judge of the Su

"It is hereby certified to the Hon. perior Courts of the .... mission to the bar whose examination paper bears date ...

... Circuit, that the applicant for ad

is signed with the number

....."

and

is entitled to be licensed to practice law in this State, upon his taking the oath and paying the fee prescribed by law. In witness whereof we have hereunto affixed our official signatures, the date first above written.

The form of the certificate when an examination is not satisfactory to the Board shall be the same as the above, except that the word "not" shall be inserted between the words "is" and "entitled," and the words following the word "State" shall be omitted.

8. Judge's duty on receiving certificate.--The Judge below, upon receiving a certificate, or certificates, from said Board, shall proceed to open the sealed envelopes left in his custody until he finds therein the number, or numbers, corresponding with that, or with those, appearing in such certificate, or certificates, and shall at once place again under seal all applications, etc., which he has removed from their covers and to which such certificate, or certificates, do not relate, pursuing this course until all the applications presented to him shall have been disposed of in the following manner: The Judge shall deliver to each applicant the certificate from the Board of Examiners referring to him by his number, and, together with the same, all the papers therewith connected; and whenever a certificate is affirmative in character, shall also deliver to the applicant an order in the following form:

Form of order entitling applicant to be licensed.

"At chambers,

......

day of.... 18.. "It appearing from a certificate issued by the Board of Examiners that who had presented to me a proper application for admission to the bar, is entitled to be duly licensed to practice law in this State, upon his taking the oath and paying the usual fee of five dollars, it is ordered that upon his so doing, and upon his filing with the Clerk of the Superior Court of ....County, it being the county of the applicant's residence, his original application, the certificate of attorneys accompanying the same, the oath made in connection with his examination, and the said certificate from the Board of Examiners in which said applicant is referred to by the number said Clerk do issue to him a license, in proper form, authorizing him to plead and practice law in all the courts of this State, except the Supreme Court. It is further ordered that

Admission to the bar.

all the papers herein directed to be filed with said Clerk, and also his order and the oath as attorney which said applicant is hereby required to take, be entered upon the minutes of the Superior Court of said county and subscribed by the applicant. Said oath shall be administered and attested by said Clerk.

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"Judge Superior Court."

9. Duty of Clerk on receiving such order.—Whenever an applicant for admission to the bar shall deliver to the Clerk of the Superior Court of the county of the former's residence such an order as that prescribed in the preceding rule, and shall comply with its terms, said Clerk shall proceed as therein directed. The aforesaid proceedings may be entered upon the minutes either in term time or vacation. 10. Publication of Acts and Rules.-The Board of Examiners is hereby charged with the duty of having 2,000 copies of the aforesaid Act of 1897, as amended by the aforesaid Act of 1898, and of these rules, printed in pamphlet form, 250 of the same to be durably but inexpensively bound. It shall furnish to each of the Justices of the Supreme Court, and to each Judge and Clerk of the Superior Courts of this State, a bound copy, and an unbound copy to every practicing attorney or person desiring admission to the bar, who may apply for such copy. Said Board shall from time to time contract for the printing and binding of additional copics as the same may be needed.

11. Expenses, how paid.-All expenses incurred in carrying said amended Act and these rules into effect shall be paid by said Board out of the fees paid by applicants for admission to the bar, and the balance of the fund realized from said fees, shall, as in said Act directed, be appropriated to paying the members of said Board for their services.

[The order prescribing the foregoing rules was signed by all the Justices, except Simmons, C. J., who was absent. The order amending the same was signed by all the Justices.]

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§ 6312. County School Commissioners.-County boards of educa- A. 1896, p. tion in counties having a population of more than sixty thousand inhabitants, shall be authorized and empowered to pay the county school commissioners of such counties such salary in lieu of a per diem as the said county boards of education shall fix, not to exceed the sum of eighteen hundred dollars per annum.

92.

§ 6313. Seals to be furnished to County Boards.-The State School A. 1897, p. Commissioner shall furnish to each county school commissioner in this State a seal that shall be known as the seal of the board of edu

cation of the county for which it is furnished.

92.

8 6314. License of teachers under seal.—It shall be the duty of A. 1897. p. every county school commissioner in this State to place upon all teachers' license issued by them the seal of the board of education of the county for which they are commissioner.

92.

§ 6315. Seals, how paid for.-To defray the expenses of furnish- A. 1897, p. ing said seals to the county school commissioners the State School Commissioner is authorized to charge the amount to the expense account in which other supplies furnished county school commissioners are charged.

82.

§ 6316. Scholastic month defined.-Twenty school days shall con- A. 1896, p. stitute and be deemed and treated as a scholastic month in all the public schools of this State.

90.

§ 6317. School books; Board may purchase.—In order to prevent a. 1897, p. excessive rates of charges for school books that may be used in any of the common or public schools of the State, the county boards of education of the several counties of the State of Georgia shall be, and they are hereby, authorized to purchase directly of the publishers such books as may be needed or adopted for said schools of their respective counties, and said board shall have authority to supply the same to the patrons and pupils of said schools at cost, or at such advance thereon as shall be sufficient to defray the expense of handling. Said board shall have power to contract with local merchants

Education and charitable institutions.

or others for the supply of said books to be retailed at stipulated prices, and, if deemed necessary, they shall require such merchant or other person so contracted with to give bond in such sum as the board may determine to be necessary, in each instance, for the faithful performance of said contract.

§ 6318. Repurchase by Board. The several county boards that may purchase books as above provided, or such merchant or other person with whom they may contract for the purchase and retail sale thereof, may have authority to repurchase such books from any child, its parent or guardian, who may desire to change his or her residence to a different county of this State, if thereby the said child should be required to procure other and different books, a proper percentage of deduction being made in each instance for wear and tear of books so repurchased.

§ 6319. Renting books to pupils.--In cases where said Boards of Education shall purchase the books needed in said schools under their control, as herein provided for, they may rent the same to the pupils at such fees or for such charges as they may deem just and proper, and the boards may make all proper rules to insure the payment of said fees and charges and proper care in the preservation of said books.

§ 6320. Contracts to be filed with State School Commissioner.-The several county boards of education shall file with the State Board of Education copies of all contracts for school books now existing within thirty days from this Act; and copies of all future contracts for school books entered into by said county boards shall likewise be filed with said State Board within ten days after the same have been entered into.

§ 6321. Contracts for supply of books; term of.-No county board of education shall be allowed to change or renew any contract for the supply of school books before the expiration of five years from the time that such a contract may be made as above provided for, without first giving sixty days' notice of the intention so to change or renew said contract in one or more of the newspapers published in the county in which such change or renewal is to be made, and if no newspaper is published in said county, then by publishing said notice in the newspaper in which the advertisements of sheriff's sales for said. county are published; sixty days' notice of such intended change or renewal shall also be given by said county board to the publishers or dealers with whom the contract at the time thereof may be of force; and no county board shall make such change or renewal except on a vote of three-fourths of its members present in session should such change be desired at any time during the five years covered by original contract.

$6322. Reports of County Boards.-[Repealed].

§ 6323. Cities and towns may exercise same powers.-The several boards of education of the cities and towns of the State may, if they