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A Brief History of the Requirements to Join the Louisiana Bar: 1844

Change was frequent

1844

"Rules

The following rules for the Government of the Committee for the examination of Candidates for admission to the Bar were this day Ordered to be entered on the minutes.

1st. The Committee will meet twice in each month during the Sessions of the Supreme Court--viz.--on the first and third Fridays of each month at 5 O'Clock P.M.

2d No Candidate for admission whose examination has been unsatisfactory to the Committee will be re-examined without at least six month's [sic] additional study.

3d Each candidate will be examined separately."

[June 10, 1844, Book 8, 1844-1846, 148]

This is taken from the Supreme Court Minute Books, as reported by Warren M. Billings in his book The Historic Rules of the Supreme Court of Louisiana 1813-1879.