board shall keep a record of all its proceedings, and also a record of all applications for admission to the bar, and shall enroll in a book kept for that purpose, the name of each person admitted as an attorney at law. SEC. 4. The said board shall, as soon as practicable thereafter, report the result of all examinations to the Supreme Court, with such recommendations as to said board shall seem just, and the Supreme Court shall, after considering said report and said recommendations, enter an order in each case authorizing or directing said board to reject such applicant, or to issue to him a certificate of admission to the bar. SEC. 5. The said board shall receive from each person applying for examination the sum of five dollars ($5.00) as a fee therefor, and all fees received by said board shall be deposited with the treasurer of said board and applied toward the expenses and compensation of the respective members of said board. SEC. 6. There shall be paid out of the treasury of said board to each examiner appointed as aforesaid, a compensation not exceeding ten dollars ($10.00) per day and his actual necessary expenses in going to, holding and returning from any such examination. SEC. 7. No person shall hereafter be admitted to practice as an attorney and counselor at law, or commence, conduct or defend any action or proceeding in any of the courts of record of this State, in which he is not a party concerned either by using or subscribing his own or the name or names of any other person or persons, unless he has complied with and been admitted under and pursuant to such rules as the Supreme Court of this State shall prescribe; Provided, that the provisions of this act st all not apply to or affect persons admitted to the bar of this State under pre-existing laws. Provided, That graduates from the Law Department of the University of Minnesota shall, upon presentation of their diploma from said University to the Supreme Court, or any other District Court of this State, at any time within two (2) years from the date of such diploma, be entitled to a certificate of admission to the bar without any examination or fee whatever; and such court shall thereupon enter an order authorizing and directing the clerk of said court to issue to such graduate a certificate of admission to the bar, upon proof satisfactory to said court that such graduate is a citizen of the United States, a citizen and resident of the State of Minnesota; that he is twents-one (21) years of age, of good moral character, and upon his subscribing such oath as is now provided by statute for persons upon their admission to the bar. SEC. 8. Any person who shall appear as an attorney or counselor at law in any action or proceeding in any court of record in this State to maintain or defend the same except in his own behalf when a party thereto, unless he has been admitted to the bar of this State, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon convicted thereof shall be fined not less than fifty ($50) nor more than one hundred dollars ($100), and it shall be the duty of the respective county attorneys in this State to prosecute violations of this act; but the District Courts of this State shall have sole original jurisdiction of this offence. Provided, That any attorney or counselor residing in any of the other states or territories wherein he has been admitted to practice law, and who shall attend any term of the Supreme or District Courts of this State for the purpose of trying or participating in the trial or proceedings of any action or proceeding therein pending, may be permitted to try or participate in the trial or proceedings in such action or proceeding without being subject to provisions of this act. SEC. 9. Chapter ninety-three (93) of the general laws of one thousand eight hundred and eighty-nine (1889) and sections three (3), four (4), and eight (3) of chapter eighty-eight (88) of the General Statutes of one thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight (1878), and chapter one hundred and four (104) of the General Laws of one thousand eight hundred and eighty-three (1883), are hereby repealed. SEC. 10. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. LAW BOOKS. Students will be expected to furnish themselves with such text-books as the faculty shall adopt for use in the recitation room. In all cases they will be such books as will be found necessary in the student's practice. In addition to these, should any of the students desire to have at hand other standard works upon the subjects taught, a judicious selection could be made from the following list, and the faculty would be glad to aid them in making such a selection: Contracts Parsons, Anson, Metcalf, Pollock, Bishop. Sales - Benjamin, Blackburn. Domestic Relations-Schouler or Reeves on Domestic Relations; Schouler on Husband and Wife; Bishop on Marriage and Divorce; Bishop on Married Women; Cord on Married Women; Macdonnell on Master and Servant; Simpson on Infants. Corporations-Angell and Ames, Field, Morawetz, Taylor; Dillon on Municipal Corporations; Thompson on Liability of Stockholders. Bills and Notes-Byles; Chalmers, Parsons; Daniels on Negotiable Instruments; Edwards on Bills and Notes; Bigelow's Leading Cases; Ames' Leading Cases. Torts-Cooley, Bigelow, Addison; Wharton on Negligence. Evidence-Greenleaf on Evidence; Best's Principles of Evidence; Stephen's Digest of Law of Evidence; Wharton or Starkie on Evidence; Rogers on Expert Testimony; Rosco's Criminal Evidence. Real Property-Williams, Washburn, Tiedman, Boone, Willard. Partnership-Lindley, Parsons, Bates, Pollock. Wills and Administration of Estates-Redfield on Wills; Jarman on Wills (Randolph & Talcott's or Bigelow's edition); Hawkins on Construction of Wills; Schouler on Wills; Williams on Executors. Common Carriers-Hutchinson on Carriers; Thompson on Passenger Carriers; Redfield or Pierce on Railways. Equity-Pomeroy's or Storey's Equity Jurisprudence; Snell's, Bispham's or Adams' Equity. Criminal Law-Harris, Bishop, Wharton, May, Washburn; Stephen's Digest of the Criminal Law; Stephen's History of the Criminal Law. Pleading-Gould, Stephens. Chatty, Hurd; Bliss on Code Agency-Evans, Story, Wharton. Insurance May on Insurance; Wood on Fire Insurance; Bliss Medical Jurisprudence-Ewell, Wharton and Stille, Beck. Constutional History-Hallam's Constitutional History of England (1485-1760); May's Constitutional History of England (1760-1860); Yonge's Constitutional History of England (1760-1860); Stubb's Constitutional History of England; Bagehot's English Constitution; Gheist's English Constitutional History; Curtis's History of the Constitution of the United States; Bancroft's History of the United States; Von Holst's Constitutional History of the United States. Constitutional and State Law-Pomeroy's Introduction to the Constitutional Law of the United States; Von Holst's Constitutional Law of the United States; Cooley's Principles of Constitutional Law; Cooley's Constitutional Limitations; Story's Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States; Sedgwick on Constitutional and Statutory Law; Jameson's Constitutional Conventions; Bishop's Written Law; Maxwell on the Interpretation of Statutes; Farrar's Manual of the Constitution of the United States; Stearn's Concordance to the Constitution of the United States. Jurisprudence-Holland's Elements of Jurisprudence; Austin's Lectures on Jurisprudence; Lorimer's Principles of Jurisprudence; Amos on the Science of Law. International Law-Wheaton's Elements of International Law; Hallis International Law; Davis' International Law; Story's Conflict of Laws. Roman Law-Morey's Outlines on Roman Law; Hadley's Introduction to Roman Law; Mackenzie's Roman Law; Moyle's Justinian; Roby's Introduction to the Digest; Muirhead's Roman Law. CALENDAR, 1893-94. September 5, Tuesday, 9 a. m.-Examination for entrance, and enrollment, in law building. September 12, Tuesday, 2 p. m.-First lectures of the course. December 23, Saturday -Holiday vacation begins. January 9, 1893, Tuesday, 2 p. m.-Lectures resumed. June 7-Commencement. For further particulars write to the President, Cyrus Northrop, Minneapolis, or to the Dean, W. S. Pattee, and all information necessary for the student will be furnished promptly. The Dean will be pleased to correspond with any one who is thinking of pursuing a course of legal study, and he will gladly aid any student in selecting the proper books. Letters addressed to him at Minneapolis, Minnesota, will receive prompt attention. EXPENSES. These depend largely upon the tastes and habits of the individual. Students find no difficulty in obtaining board among the people of the city. Good board can be obtained for $4 per week. Students board in clubs at less expense. |