This act authorized the Supreme Court to appoint an examining committee to screen candidates, an action that the Court had already taken. It kept the requirements for moral character and age.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Louisiana, in general assembly convened, That the judges of the Supreme Court be, and are hereby authorized to appoint, from time to time, as they may think proper, a committee or board of examiners, to be composed of citizens of the United States and residents of this state, and members of the bar, whose duty it shall be to examine applicants for admission to the bar in this state, and to decide upon the qualifications of the applicant, and if found qualified or unqualified the judges shall re-examine upon the request of the applicant, and it is hereby made their duty to re-examine him in open court, and if they find him qualified he shall be licenced [sic] to practice law before the courts of this state; Provided, however, that if the applicant be a resident of the country, and the committee or board of examiners shall neglect to examine and decide upon his qualifications within ten days after his application, and if a resident of the city, within twenty days, he may then apply to the judges of the Supreme Court, whose duty it shall be immediately to examine and decide upon the qualifications of the applicant, and if found qualified lie shall be licenced [sic] to practice law accordingly; Provided, however, that before examination the applicant shall produce the certificate of moral character and of age now required by law.
SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, & c., That whenever a person intending to practice law in this state has been already licenced [sic] in the superior courts of any of the other states, upon producing his licence [sic] to the judges of the Supreme Court of this state, together with evidence of a good moral character, he shall be examined in open court touching his fitness to practice in the courts of this state, and if found qualified he shall be licenced [sic] accordingly, and shall not be subject to be examined by a committee or board of examiners.
SEC. 3. Be it further enacted, &c., That all laws contrary to this act be, and the same are hereby
repealed.
