From the Colorado Supreme Court, 1898:

Applicants who are not members of the bar, as above prescribed, shall present a thirty-count certificate from the regents of the university of the state of New York, or shall satisfy said committee that they graduated from a high school or preparatory school whose standing shall be approved by the committee, or were admitted as regular students to some college or university, approved as aforesaid, or before enter­ing upon said clerkship or attendance at a law school, or within one year thereafter, or before September 13, 1899, they passed an examination before the state superintendent of public instruction, in the following subjects: English lit­erature, civil government, algebra to quadratic equations, plane geometry, general history, history of England, history of the United States, and the written answers to the ques­tions in the above named subjects shall be examined as to spelling, grammar, composition and rhetoric. The said exam­inations shall be conducted in connection with the regular county examinations of teachers.