months thereafter, be again taken up or considered upon any of the grounds specified in the application under consideration, except by the consent of a majority of the members of the board; nor in any case, except upon new and regular notice as required by law in case of original application.

8. In voting upon any application the roll of members shall be called by the secretary of the board in the following order:

First-The Attorney General.

Second-The Junior Associate Justice of the Supreme

Court.

Third-The Senior Associate Justice.

Fourth-The Chief Justice.

Fifth-The Governor.

Each member, when his name is called, shall declare his vote for" or "against the remission of the fine or forfeiture, commutation of sentence, pardon or restoration of citizenship.

9. No document relating to a pending application for pardon or commutation of sentence, or to a prior application which has been denied, shall be withdrawn from the custody of the Clerk after filing, unless by consent of the Board.

10. Application for pardon or commutation of sentence must be filed with the clerk at least two days before the regular meeting of the board, at which the application is to be considered.

RULES

OF

THE SUPREME COURT

OF THE STATE OF NEVADA.

RULE I.

1. Applicants for license to practice as attorneys and counselors will be examined in open court on the first day of the term.

2. The Supreme Court, upon application of the district judge of any judicial district, will appoint a committee to examine persons applying for admission to practice as attorneys and counselors at law. Such committee will consist of the district judge and at least two attorneys resident of the district.

The examination by the committee so appointed shall be conducted and certified according to the following rules: The applicant shall be examined by the district judge and at least two others of the committee, and the questions and answers must be reduced to writing.

No intimation of the questions to be asked must be given to the applicant by any member of the committee previous to the examination.

The examination shall embrace the following subjects: 1. The history of this State and of the United States; 2. The constitutional relations of the State and Federal governments;

3. The jurisdiction of the various courts of this State and of the United States;

4. The various sources of our municipal law;

5. The general principles of the common law relating to property and personal rights and obligations;

6. The general grounds of equity jurisdiction and principles of equity jurisprudence;

7. Rules and principles of pleadings and evidence ;

8. Practice under the civil and criminal codes of Nevada; 9. Remedies in hypothetical cases;

10. The course and duration of the applicant's studies.

3. The examiners will not be expected to go very much. at large into the details of these subjects, but only sufficiently so, fairly to test the extent of the applicant's knowledge and the accuracy of his understanding of those subjects and books which he has studied.

4. When the examination is completed and reduced to writing, the examiners will return it to this court, accompanied by their certificate showing whether or not the applicant is of good moral character and has attained his majority, and is a bona fide resident of the State; such certificate shall also contain the facts that the applicant was examined in the presence of the committee; that he had no knowledge or intimation of the nature of any of the questions to be propounded to him before the same were asked by the committee, and that the answers to each and all the questions were taken down as given by the applicant without reference to any books or other outside aid.

5. The fee for license must in all cases be deposited with the clerk of the court before the application is made, to be returned to the applicant in case of rejection.

RULE II.

In all cases where an appeal has been perfected, and the statement settled (if there be one) thirty days before the commencement of a term, the transcript of the record shall be filed on or before the first day of such term.

RULE III.

1. If the transcript of the record be not filed within the time prescribed by Rule II, the appeal may be dismissed on motion during the first week of the term, without notice. A cause so dismissed may be restored during the same term, upon good cause shown, on notice to the opposite party; and unless so restored the dismissal shall be final,

and a bar to any other appeal from the same order or judg

ment.

2, On such motion, there shall be presented the certificate of the clerk below, under the seal of the court, certifying the amount or character of the judgment; the date of its rendition; the fact and date of the filing of the notice of appeal, together with the fact and date of service thereof on the adverse party, and the character of the evidence by which said service appears; the fact and date of the filing the undertaking on appeal, and that the same is in due form; the fact and time of the settlement of the statement, if there be one; and, also, that the appellant has received a duly certified transcript, or that he has not requested the clerk to certify to a correct transcript of the record; or, if he has made such request, that he has not paid the fees therefor, if the same have been demanded.

RULE IV.

1. All transcripts of record in civil cases shall be printed on unruled white writing paper, ten inches long by seven inches wide, with a margin, on the outer edge, of not less than two inches wide. The printed page, exclusive of any marginal note or reference, shall be seven inches long and three and one-half inches wide. The folios embracing ten lines each shall be numbered from the commencement to the end, and the numbering of the folio shall be printed on the left margin of the page. Small pica solid is the smallest letter, and most compact mode of composition allowed.

2. Transcripts in criminal cases may be printed in like manner as prescribed for civil cases; or, if not printed, shall be written on one side only of transcript paper, sixteen inches long by ten and one-half inches in width, with a margin of not less than one and one-half inches wide, fastened or bound together on the left sides of the pages by ribbon or tape, so that the same may be secured, and every part conveniently read. The transcript, if written, shall be in a fair, legible hand, and each paper or order shall be separately inserted.

3. The pleadings, proceedings and statement shall be chronologically arranged in the transcript, and each tran

script shall be prefaced with an alphabetical index, specifying the folio of each separate paper, order or proceeding, and of the testimony of each witness; and the transcript shall have at least one blank fly-sheet cover.

4. No record which fails to conform to these rules shall be received or filed by the clerk of the court.

RULE V.

The written transcript in civil causes, together with sufficient funds to pay for the printing of the same, may be transmitted to the clerk of this court. The clerk, upon the receipt thereof, shall file the same and cause the transcript to be printed, and to a printed copy shall annex his certificate that the said printed transcript is a full and correct copy of the transcript furnished to him by the party; and said certificate shall be prima facie evidence that the same is correct. The said printed copy so certified shall also be filed, and constitute the record of the cause in this court, subject to be corrected by reference to the written transcript on file.

RULE VI.

The expense of printing transcripts on appeal in civil causes and pleadings, affidavits, briefs, or other papers constituting the record in original proceedings upon which the case is heard in this court, required by these rules to be printed, shall be allowed as costs, and taxed in bills of costs in the usual mode.

RULE VII.

For the purpose of correcting any error or defect in the transcript from the court below, either party may suggest the same, in writing, to this court, and upon good cause shown, obtain an order that the proper clerk certify to the whole or part of the record, as may be required, or may produce the same, duly certified, without such order. If the attorney of the adverse party be absent, or the fact of the alleged error or defect be disputed, the suggestion, except when a certified copy is produced at the time, must be accompanied by an affidavit showing the existence of the error or defect alleged.