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submit to a theoretical and practical examination before the state veteri-
nary medical board, said examination to be written, oral or both, which
examination, if passed to the satisfaction of the said board, shall entitle
the applicant to practise veterinary medicine and surgery, subject to
provisions and regulations of this sub-title and regulations of the said
board.

1904, art. 43, sec. 111. 1894, ch. 273, sec. 5.

140. All examinations of persons not graduates shall be made
directly by the state veterinary medical board, and the certificates given
by the said board shall authorize the possessors to practise veterinary
medicine and surgery in the State of Maryland. All examinations of
ungraduated practitioners must take place before the thirty-first day
of December, eighteen hundred and ninety-four. After that date no
certificate shall be granted except to persons presenting diplomas from
legally chartered colleges.

Ibid. sec. 112. 1894, ch. 273, sec. 6.

141. Any person shall be regarded as practising veterinary medi-
cine and surgery, within the meaning of this sub-title, who shall have
received a license as mentioned in section 139; but nothing in this
sub-title shall be construed to prohibit members of the medical profes-
sion from prescribing for domestic animals in case of emergency and
collecting a fee therefor, nor to prohibit gratuitous services in an emer-
gency, nor to prevent any person from practising veterinary medicine
and surgery on any animal belonging to himself or herself. And this
sub-title shall not apply to commissioned veterinary surgeons in the
United States army.

Ibid. sec. 113. 1894, ch. 273, sec. 7.

142. It shall be the duty of such board to keep a register of all
practioners qualified under this sub-title practising veterinary medicine
and surgery or any branches thereof in this State, and to cause the
same to be published at least once a year in two newspapers published
in the city of Baltimore.

Ibid. sec. 114. 1894, ch. 273, sec. 8.

143. The said board shall within six months from April 6, 1894,
prepare said register, in which the name of all graduate practitioners
in the State at the time and in actual practise shall, on application to
the said board, be inserted without examination and shall also on appli-
cation insert the names of such persons who are practitioners in actual
practice without a diploma or certificate or qualification from a recog-
nized school, who have been in practice for five years and upwards,
prior to the enactment of this sub-title, upon proof to the said board,
that they have been so practising; that all persons practising at this
time and not having been so practising for five years antecedent to such
enactment, shall undergo an examination before the said board, and if
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