of the Supreme Court at thirteen thousand dollars; the salary of the president judge of the Superior Court at twelve thousand five hundred dollars, and the salaries of the associate judges of the Superior Court at twelve thousand dollars, and provided that these salaries should be paid monthly.

The act of June , 1919, fixes the salary of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court at fifteen thousand dollars per year and the salaries of the justices of the Supreme Court at fourteen thousand dollars per year, the salary of the President Judge of the Superior Court at thirteen thousand five hundred dollars per year and the salaries of the associate judges of the Superior Court at thirteen thousand dollars per year.

CHAPTER XI

Rules and Index of the Supreme Court

of the

STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA

SUPREME COURT OF PENNSYLVANIA
HON. J. HAY BROWN,
Chief Justice.

HON. JOHN STEWART,

HON. ROBERT VON MOSCHZISKER,

HON. ROBERT S. Frazer,

HON. EMORY A. WALLING,

HON. ALEX. SIMPSON, JR.,

HON. JOHN W. KEPHART,

Justices.

Prothonotaries

Eastern District, WM. A. STONE, Philadelphia.
Middle District, WILLIAM PEARSON, ESQ., Harrisburg.
Western District, GEORGE PEARSON, ESQ., Pittsburgh.
Attorney General

HON. WILLIAM I. SCHAFFER

State Reporter

HON. ALBERT B. WEIMER

I certify that the following are the rules of the Supreme and Superior Courts of Pennsylvania.

The rules of the United States Courts are as given me by the Clerks thereof.

Dated this first day of August, 1919.

WILLIAM A. STONE,

Prothonotary Supreme and Superior Courts of Pennsylvania,

ATTORNEYS

Eastern District.

Rule 1. No person shall be admitted to practice as an attorney in this Court except upon the recommendation of the State Board of Law Examiners.

Rule 2. Any applicant for admission to the bar of this Court who, on the first Monday of January, 1903, was a member of the bar of a Court of Common Pleas of this Commonwealth, and after he shall have practiced therein for at least two years, may be admitted, without examination, upon the certificate of the State Board of Law Examiners; and no such candidate shall be required to advertise or pay any fee for reporting upon his credentials. Superior Court Rule 2.

Rule 3. No person shall be registered as a student at law for the purpose of becoming entitled to admission to the bar of the Supreme Court until he shall have satisfied the State Board of Law Examiners that he is of good moral character, and shall have received an academic degree from some college or university approved for that purpose by the Court or shall have passed a preliminary examination upon the following subjects: (1) English language and literature; (2) Outlines of universal history; (3) History of England and of the United States; (4) Arithmetic, algebra through quadratic and plane geometry; (5) Modern geography; (6) The first four books of Cæsar's Commentaries, the first six books of the Æneid, and the first four orations of Cicero against Catiline.

Every candidate shall pay to the State Board a fee of twentyfive dollars, and upon receiving a certificate recommending his registration and certifying that he is qualified to begin the study of the law, shall cause his name, age, place of residence, and the name of his preceptor, or the law school in which he proposes to pursue his studies, to be registered with the Prothonotary of the Supreme Court for the district to which his county belongs.

Rule 4. Candidates for admission, who have spent at least three years after registration in the study of the law, either by attendance upon the regular course of a law school offering at least a three years' course, eight months in the year and an average of ten hours per week each year, or partly in a law school and partly in the office of a practicing attorney, or by the bona fide service of a regular clerkship in the office of a practicing attorney, shall be eligible to appear for examination for admission to the bar of this Court upon complying with the following requirements:

1. A candidate must advertise his intention to apply for admission, in a law periodical or a newspaper published within the ju

dicial district in which he resides, and in the Legal Intelligencer, once a week for four weeks immediately preceding the date of filing his credentials with the Board.

2. He must file the necessary credentials with the Board in such form as shall be prescribed at least twenty-one days before the date of the examination and shall pay to the Board a fee of twenty-five dollars.

3. He must file a certificate signed by at least three members of the bar in good standing in the judicial district in which he has resided or intends to practice, that he is personally known to them, and that they believe him to be of good moral character.

4. A certificate from the dean of the law school or preceptor that he has been regular in attendance and pursued the study of the law with diligence from the time of his registration.

Rule 5. Every applicant for admission must sustain a satisfactory examination in Blackstone's Commentaries, constitutional law, including the Constitutions of the United States and Pennsylvania, equity, the law of real and personal property, evidence, decedents' estates, landlord and tenant, contracts, commercial law, partnership, corporations, crimes, torts, domestic relations, common law pleading and practice, Pennsylvania practice, the Federal statutes relating to the judiciary and to bankruptcy, Pennsylvania statutes and decisions and the rules of the Supreme and Superior Courts and of the courts of the county in which the applicant intends to practice.

Rule 6. Examination for registration and admission to the bar shall be conducted in writing, and shall be held simultaneously, after due notice, twice a year, in the cities of Philadelphia and Pittsburgh.

Rule 7. The State Board of Law Examiners shall consist of five members of this bar and shall be appointed by the Court. They shall hold office during the pleasure of the Court, for a term not exceeding five years, except that of the members of the Board now appointed one shall withdraw at the end of each year, such withdrawals to be made in the order of seniority of admission to the bar. The members of the Board shall serve without compensation, but shall be reimbursed their traveling and other expenses. The Board may, with the approval of the Court, appoint examiners to superintend the conduct of the examinations and to report upon the answers of the candidates, but

the members of the Board shall be responsible to the Court for the enforcement of these rules, and the proper ascertainment of the results of the examinations. The Board may also, with the approval of the Court, appoint a secretary and a treasury, or the same person may hold both offices, and they may pay to each examiner and to the secretary and treasurer out of the fees received, and after deduction of the necessary expenses, a reasonable compensation. When application is made for a suspension of the rules in any particular case, the Board of Examiners shall report such application to the Supreme Court with a recommendation upon the merits.

Rule 8. It shall be the duty of the State Board of Law Examiners to prepare a paper for gratuitous distribution among intending applicants for registration or admission containing detailed information as to the subjects of examination.

Rule 9. Attorneys from other states, upon presenting satisfactory evidence that they are members in good standing of the Appellate Court of last resort of the state from which they came; that they have practiced in a court of record of that state for at least five years, and that they are of good moral character, may be admitted to the bar of this Court without examination upon the recommendation of the State Board, provided, however, that the Board may, in its discretion, require any such applicant to take a final examination.

Attorneys from other states, upon presenting satisfactory evidence that they are members in good standing of a court of record of the state from which they came, and have practiced therein for at least one year, and that they are of good moral character, may, in the discretion of the State Board, be permitted to take a final examination without previous registration.

The State Board of Law Examiners may, in its discretion, permit an attorney from another state, without regard to the period during which he has practiced law in that state, to take a final examination without previous registration in this State, if he shall have served a regular clerkship in the office of a practicing attorney in this State for a period of at least one year prior to said examination.