1598 ARTICLE 43.

students of veterinary medicine and surgery or'to those who have passed
satisfactory examinations before the state veterinary medical board or as
herein provided for.

An. Code, sec. 138. 1904, sec. 109. 1894, ch. 273, sec. 3.

146. The said state veterinary medical board shall hold their meet-
ings at such times and places as they may deem best, which times and
places shall be set out fully and regularly in their by-laws.

An. Code, sec. 139. 1904, sec. 110. 1894, ch. 273, sec. 4.

147. The state veterinary medical board shall examine all diplomas
as to their genuineness, and each applicant not holding, a diploma shall
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 pro-
visions and regulations of this sub-title and regulations of the said board.

An. Code, sec. 140. 1904, sec. 111. 1894, ch. 273, sec. 5.

148. 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.

An. Code, sec. 141. 1904, sec. 112. 1894, ch. 273, sec. 6.

149. Any person shall be regarded as practising veterinary medicine
and surgery, within the meaning of this sub-title,"who shall have received
a license as mentioned in section 147; but nothing in this sub-title shall
be construed to prohibit members of the medical profession from prescrib-
ing for domestic animals in case of emergency and collecting a fee there-
for, nor to prohibit gratuitous services in an emergency, nor to prevent
any person from practising veterinary medicine and surgery on any ani-
mal belonging to himself or herself. And this sub-title shall not apply to
commissioned veterinary surgeons in the United States army.

An. Code, sec. 142. 1904, sec. 113. 1894, ch. 273, sec. 7.

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

An. Code, sec. 143. 1904, sec. 114. 1894, ch. 273, sec. 8.

151. The said board shall within six months from April 6, 1894, pre-
pare said register, in which the name of all graduate practitioners in the