In Re Chapelle

Applicant petitions for admission to the bar. He has never been admitted to the bar in any jurisdiction. His application shows that he has engaged in the study of the law for fifteen years in Michigan, in Illinois, and in this state, and that he has read certain specified text-books upon various branches of the law. He applies for an admission without examination as to his qualifications and presents • certificates from trial judges and lawyers of this state to the effect that he is possessed of the learning in the law necessary to qualify him for admission. The certificst&s presented by the lawyers further show that they find him qualified after having carefully and diligently examined him as to his attainments.

Petitioner contends that this court enjoys the inherent power to admit him without examination. He also asserts that this inherent power is so firmly, completely, and irrevocably fixed that it is not subject to regulation by the legislature. He says that the matter of the admission of persons to the bar is so much a matter of judicial cognizance and is so far a matter for judicial determination that for the legislature to attempt to regulate it would be for the…