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153 uates on the certificate provided by the Legis time was, that the Supreme Court, though lature in the law above described. The court intrusted with the power of admitting at held the law to be unconstitutional and void, torneys and counsellors to practice, had on a theory that the power to admit attorneys, conspicuously failed in establishing any satis etc., was inherent in the court, and that the factory method. The Law Schools needed legislature had no authority to provide for temporarily a different mode of proceeding. admission in any other way. This prepos After their modes had had a fair trial before terous decision, unexpectedly adverse to the the public, legislation was no longer neces graduates, since no such question had been sary, since the later judges have more thor

raised in other judicial oughly realized their districts as to the other responsibility to the profession, and the Law Schools, led to an appeal to the Court of court examinations Appeals, in which two are more reasonable, though, be it said with points altogether new respect, there is still in our jurisprudence in some quarters room were presented. One was, whether an ap for improvement. In the same year peal could be taken from an order denying (i860), in order to stimulate excellence the petition or motion of an applicant for in attainments of the admission to the bar; students, a series of an and the other, on the nual prizes was estab merits of the case, as lished, commencing to the power of the leg with $250, and dimin islature over the whole ishing regularly by subject of the practi 550, until the sum of tioners in the courtS100 was reached. This second question These were adjudica branched out into an ted by leading mem historical as well as bers of the bar upon legal inquiry, in which the combined merits THEODORE W. DWIGHT. ail the English leg of written answers to islation and practice printed questions, and were considered, from the earliest period of essays upon topics selected by the in down to the time of the argument. The structors. None could compete for the argument was published in full in a separate prizes except those who had fully completed pamphlet. A mere outline of it is presented the two years' course. The questions cov in the report of the case, in 22 New York ered the range of studies for the whole R. 67, under the name of the matter of Cooper. course. Stringent rules were adopted in The Court of Appeals held that the order reference to the answers, so as to secure was appealable as involving a substantial the absolute fidelity of the candidates in right, and thereupon reversed the decision their work. The first committee of award of the Supreme Court. The graduates were consisted of Judges D. P. Ingraham of the accordingly admitted under the statute, and Supreme Court, Lewis B. Woodruff of the continued to be for a number of years. The Superior Court, and Chief -Justice Daly of great justification for this legislation at this the Common Pleas; all jurists of great emi