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Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky:

$ 1. That Sub-section 10 of Section 12 of Chapter 11 of the acts of the extraordinary session of 1917 be amended and re-enacted so that it will read as follows:

It shall be the duty of the State Tax Commission to arrange for an annual conference of the County Tax Commissioners, or the officer whose duty it is to assess property for taxation. Said meeting shall be held in Frankfort and shall be for the purpose of giving systematic instructions in finding, and for the fair and just valuation and assessment of every kind of property subject to taxation, under this act, and as to their practical duty in every step in connection therewith. Said conference shall continue not more than five days. It shall be the duty of such officer to attend and take part in such conference, unless prevented by illness, or by other reason satisfactory to the State Tax Commission. Any such officer wilfully failing to attend said conference may be removed from office by the Circuit Court of the county wherein he was elected. Onehalf of the actual and necessary expenses of such officer in attending said conference shall be paid by the State upon a certification to the Auditor by the State Tax Commission and one-half of the actual and necessary expenses of such officer attending such conference shall be paid by the county from which such officer attends. Each of such officers shall make out an itemized statement showing his actual and necessary expenses and the same shall be approved by the State Tax Commission before payment.

Approved March 29, 1918.

CHAPTER 131.

AN ACT to regulate the admission of attorneys to practice law.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky:

§ 1. No person shall hereafter be licensed as an attorney or counselor at law in this State, except as herein provided for.

§ 2. The Court of Appeals of Kentucky shall from time to time make and adopt such rules and regulations as the said court may see proper, fixing the moral qualifications of applicants, and standards of acquirement, both academic and legal, to entitle them to admission to practice law in the courts of this Commonwealth. No applicant, however, shall be under the age of twenty-one years.

§ 3. There is hereby created a Board of Examiners on Admission to the Bar. The board shall consist of three (3) members, each of whom shall possess the qualifications of a circuit judge, who shall be appointed by the Court of Appeals of Kentucky, and shall hold office for the term of three (3) years and until the appointment and qualification of their successors, respectively, except that three (3) examiners first appointed shall hold office for one, two and three (1, 2 and 3) years, respectively, the said court indicating at the time of their appointment which of said examiners shall hold for each of said terms. All vacancies, however, occurring shall be filled by appointment by said court. The member of said board who is senior in point of service shall act as its chairman, except that of the members constituting the first board, the holder of the shortest term shall be its chairman.

§ 4. The members of the board shall be appointed within thirty (30) days after this act shall take effect. A majority of them shall constitute a quorum, and said board shall proceed promptly after their appointment to the performance of its duties.

§ 5. Applicants who may appear before the Board for license to practice law shall be examined as to their qualifications. All such examinations shall be in writing and be on such subjects as shall be prescribed by said Court of Appeals and the answers of the applicants to the questions propounded to them shall be graded by said board and no such applicant shall be granted license unless he secures a general average of seventy-five (75) per cent. The board shall certify to the said court the name of each applicant who shall have passed the required examination before it. The said court shall enter an order licensing and admitting to practice as an attorney and counselor in all the courts of this State, each person who complies with the rules and regulations it shall adopt; which license, if procured by fraud, may be revoked by the court at any time within two years from its issuance. The applicant before beginning the practice of law will take the oath as now required.

§ 6. The Court of Appeals shall at the time of its appointment of the first Board of Examiners prescribe the subjects upon which the examination of those applicants for license who appear before the board shall be made, and from time to time make such changes in the list of subjects prescribed as to said court may seem proper; and the Board of Examiners shall from time to time make such rules and regulations as to the manner of holding and conducting its meeting and proceedings as said.

board may deem proper. Provided, however, that no more than six (6) sessions of said board may be held in any one year, and said sessions should be held at as nearly regular intervals as may be deemed advisable and must be held at such a place or places as may be selected by said court.

$ 7. Each person who applies for a license to practice law in this State under any rule adopted by said court, shall file a written application with the Clerk of the Court, on such form as may be adopted by the court, and shall pay to said clerk a fee of $10.00, and in case of the failure of such applicant to secure his license, he shall at the time of any subsequent application pay a fee of five ($5.00) dollars; but no one shall be permitted to file another application within six months next after his last application. All fees collected as aforesaid shall be paid by the said clerk at once into the State Treasury. The said Court of Appeals shall make an allowance to each of said examiners for his services, which shall be paid out of the fees so paid in (and from no other source) a sum not to exceed two hundred dollars per annum, and his necessary expenses while engaged in the performance of his duties; the same to be paid in quarterly installments on statements filed with the court.

§ 8. A certified copy of the license granted by the said court may be had at any time, and it shall be as valid as the original order. Each applicant shall pay to the clerk of said court the fees allowed by law in connection with his application.

9. The Court of Appeals shall make such provisions, rules and regulations as it may deem proper for the admission to practice law in this State of persons who have been licensed to practice law in other States or counties.

§ 10. The provisions of this act shall not apply to any person now holding a license to practice law in this State.

§ 11. Nothing in this act shall be construed to prevent a non-resident attorney in good standing from appearing and practicing in a case in which he may be employed.

§ 12. All laws and parts of laws in conflict with this act are hereby repealed.

Approved March 29, 1918.

CHAPTER 132.

AN ACT to amend Section 2514 Kentucky Statutes, Carroll's Edition, 1915, entitled "Actions that must be brought within fifteen years after accrual of right."

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky:

§ 1. That Section 2514, of the Kentucky Statutes, compiled and edited by John D. Carroll, and issued in the year one thousand nine hundred and fifteen, be, and the same is hereby amended and reenacted by adding to said section the following language: "And no promise or acknowledgment, or payment of money by any person bound on any bond or obligation for the payment of money secured by a lien shall operate as a prolongation or extension of the time within which such lien may be enforced as against purchasers or creditors, unless the promisor and the holder of the lien before fifteen years. after the maturity of debt, shall enter a memorandum on the margin of the record of the deed or mortgage attested by the clerk, showing that the debt is extended, and for what time it is extended, and the amount still due thereon, so that said sec

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