CHAP. 130 taxes to the amount of twenty-five dollars on his stock in trade can peddle said goods in his own town without paying any license fee whatever.' Approved March 17, 1899. Section 17, chapter 128, R. S., as amended by section 2, chapter 288, laws 1889, further amended. Begging, etc., evidence of being a tramp. -penalty. -refusing to labor, how punished. Chapter 130. An Act to amend Section seventeen of Chapter one hundred and twenty-eight of the Revised Statutes, as amended by section two of Chapter two hundred and eighty-eight, of the Public Laws of eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, relating to Tramps. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: Section seventeen of chapter one hundred and twenty-eight of the revised statutes, as amended by section two of chapter two hundred and eighty-eight of the public laws of eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, is hereby further amended so that said section seventeen, as further amended, shall read as follows: 'Section 17. Whoever goes about from town to town, or from place to place in any town, asking for food or shelter or begging or subsisting upon charity, shall be deemed a tramp, and be imprisoned in the county jail for not less than sixty days nor more than ten months, at hard labor for ten hours each day, Sundays excepted. And should any person so sentenced refuse to labor in accordance with the provisions of this section, he shall be provided with no food except bread and water, until he shall consent to labor in conformity with the requirements of this section. Trial justices and judges of municipal and police courts, shall have jurisdiction of all offenses arising under this section.' Approved March 17, 1899. Section 5, chapter 306, public laws 1897, repealed. Section 82, made ap plicable to plantations. Chapter 131. An Act to repeal Section five of Chapter three hundred and six of the Public Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Section I. Section five of chapter three hundred and six of the public laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-seven is hereby repealed. Section 2. Section eighty-two of chapter six of revised statutes shall apply to such plantations as are mentioned in chapter three hundred and six of the public laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-seven. Approved March 17, 1899. Chapter 132. An Act relative to the Desecration, Mutilation or improper use of the Flag of the Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in CHAP. 132 placing upon the United flag of the States for exhibition, any inscription, adver tisement. or notice, pro hibited. -how pun Any person who in any manner, for exhibition or display, places or causes to be placed any inscription, device, advertisement or notice whatever upon any flag, standard, color or ensign of the United States or state flag of this state, or who displays or exhibits or causes to be displayed or exhibited any flag, standard, color or ensign of the United States or flag of this state upon which shall in any manner be placed or affixed any inscription, device, advertisement or notice whatever, or any person who shall attach to or represent upon any goods, wares or merchandise, any imitation or representation of the national flag of the United States, or use any imitation or representation of the national flag of the United States for advertising purposes or who in any manner mutilates, tramples upon or other- ished. wise defaces or defiles any of said flags, standards, colors or ensigns, whether they are public or private property, shall be punished by a fine of not less than five nor more than fifty dollars. Provided, however, that flags, standards, colors or ensigns, the property of or used in the service of the United States, or of this state, may have inscriptions, names of actions, words, marks or symbols, placed thereon pursuant to law or authorized regulations, and that associations organized by men. who have served in the army or navy of the United States may place appropriate inscriptions upon flags borne by them or used for memorial purposes, and duly appointed and accredited committees of political parties, may during the campaign preceding any election for president and vice-president of the United States, attach the names of their respective candidates to the flag. Approved March 17, 1899. -inscriptions, symbols, etc., may be placed on flag pursu ant to law, etc. CHAP. 133 Attorneys, residents of other states or foreign countries, may be admitted to practice in courts of this state .upon compliance with the provisions of this act. -applicant shall furnish certificate authorizing himto practice in any state or in supreme judicial courts. Qualifica tions necessary to be admitted to practice in this state. -no person shall be entitled to practice, until licensed. Appointment of commis sioners for examination of applicants. -tenure. -meetings. Chapter 133. An Act to regulate the Admission to Practice of Attorneys, Solicitors and Counselors, to provide for a Board of Examiners, and to repeal Conflicting Acts. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: Section 1. Practicing attorneys, residents of other states and territories, or from foreign countries, may be admitted on motion to try cases in any of the courts of this state by such courts, but shall not be admitted to the general practice of law in this state without complying with the provisions of this act; provided, that where the applicant shall furnish the supreme judicial court a certificate of admission to practice in the court of last resort of any state, or a certificate of admission to any circuit court of the United States, together with the recommendation of one of the judges of the court of last resort of such state, said supreme judicial court may in its discretion, if satisfied as to his qualifications, admit such person to practice on motion made by some member of the bar of said court. Section 2. Every other person who shall be of full age, a resident and a citizen of the United States and of a 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 open court, but the applicant shall first produce the certificate hereinafter provided for from the board of examiners, to be appointed by the governor upon the recommendation of the chief justice of the supreme judicial court, that he possesses sufficient learning in the law, and 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. 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 so to do by said courts. Section 3. The governor shall on the recommendation of the chief justice of the supreme judicial court, and on or before the first day of July, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine appoint a board of examiners, composed of five competent lawyers of this state, for the examination of applicants for the admission to the bar, whose term of office shall be as follows: One for one year, one for two years, one for three years, one for four years, and one for five years, and thereafter each year the governor, on like recommendation, shall appoint one member of the board for the term of five years. annually at Portland in January, at Bangor in April, at Augusta Such board shall meet -character nation. in October, during the sessions of the supreme judicial court, CHAP. 133 and also at such other times and places in the state as the supreme judicial court shall direct, for the purpose of examining all applicants for admission to the bar, as to their legal learning and general qualifications to practice in the several courts of examiof this state as attorneys and counselors at law and solicitors and counselors in chancery and, upon such examination being had, the board shall issue to such applicants as shall pass the required examination a certificate of qualification stating the standing of the applicants and recommending their admission to the bar. Such board shall elect from their number a secretary and a treasurer and shall make such rules and regulations relative to said examination as to them may seem proper. The urer. president of said board shall be the member whose term of -president. office soonest expires. Three members of said board shall con- -quorum. stitute a quorum for the transaction of business. -secretary and treas good moral Applicants shall be of character, evidence of studied law three years. and produce having at least -fee. Section 4. The residences and names of the applicants shall be made to appear to said board and satisfactory evidence shall also be produced by said applicants of their good moral character and of their having pursued the study of the law in the office of some attorney or in some recognized law school or university for at least three years prior to such examination; and a fee to be fixed by said board of not more than twenty dollars shall accompany the application. The applicant shall be required to submit to a written examination which shall be prepared by said board, also to an oral examination by the board, and shall be required to answer correctly a minimum of seventy per cent of the questions given him to entitle him to the certificate of the board. The board shall, however, have power-grade of to establish such higher grades of standing as to them may seem proper. Section 5. The examination papers shall be kept on file in the office of the secretary of the board, and a record kept of each application the name of the applicant, and his qualifications and general standing as ascertained by such examination, and the secretary of the board shall furnish each applicant with a card, showing the proficiency he has attained in each branch. of subject upon which he has been examined, whether a certificate is issued or not. Any applicant failing to pass examination may again apply after six months, by showing to the board that he has diligently pursued the study of the law six months prior to the examination, and shall not be required to pay an extra fee for the second examination. In case any applicant does not pass the examinations, and is not reexamined, he the -examination shall be written and oral. standing. Examination be kept on papers shall file with qualificaplicant. record of tion of ap -applicant again after be returned fails en- CHAP. 133 shall have the fee which accompanied his application returned to him. Compensation of board. How fees shall be disposed of. Inconsis tents acts, repealed. When act shall take effect. Act does Section 6. The board of examiners shall receive as compensation for their services five dollars per day for the time actually spent, and the necessary expenses incurred in the discharge of their duties as examiners in going to, holding, and returning from, such examination to be certified by the clerk or one of the justices of the supreme judicial court; provided, however, that all compensation for services and expenses shall not exceed the amounts received as fees from applicants. Section 7. On the first Tuesday in January of each year said board shall apportion any sum of money in the hands of their treasurer, received for fees, in excess of the expenses of said board during the preceding year, among the treasurers of the several counties in the state, for the use of the law libraries in said counties. There shall be paid to the treasurer of each county a sum of money proportioned to the number of students examined from said county as compared with the whole number examined in the state. Section 8. Sections twenty-three and twenty-four of chapter seventy-nine of the revised statutes and all other acts and parts of acts inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed. Section 9. Except so far as relates to the appointment of the board of examiners herein provided for, this act shall not take effect until September one, nineteen hundred. Section 10. The provisions of this act shall not apply to persons whose applications for admission to the bar are pending at the time this act takes effect. Approved March 17, 1899. |