1900. ] OF THE HOUSE OF DELEGATES. 579

40. "From and after the first Tuesday in June, 1892,
there shall be and continue to be two separate boards of
medical examiners for the State of Maryland, one repre-
senting the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty, of the State
of Maryland, and one representing the Maryland State
Homeopathic Medical Society. The members of said
respective boards in office at the time when this law shall
go into effect, shall continue to hold and exercise their
respective offices up to the first Tuesday in June, 1900.

On the first Tuesday in June, 1900, said two boards of
medical examiners shall be reorganized, and thereafter,
said boards shall be constituted as follows: Bach of said
boards shall consist of seven members, who shall be elect-
ed by the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of the State
. of Maryland, and the Maryland State Homeopathic
Medical Society, respectively, at the annual meetings of
said respective societies; and each appointee is immedi-
ately, after his election, to be furnished with a certificate
thereof by the society electing him. Each such member
of said respective boards, except those elected in the year
1900, shall serve for four years and until his successor is
appointed and qualified At their respective annual
meetings, held in the year 1900, each of said aforemen-
tioned societies shall elect the full number of seven ex-
aminers for its respective board, of whom two shall be
elected for four years, two for three years, two for two
years and one for one year, and thereafter such exami-
ners shall be elected by each society hi each year as oc-
curring vacancies may require, as hereinbefore provided,
to serve for a term of four years, and until their succes-
sors are appointed and qualified, the outgoing members
to be eligible for re-election; and provided, furthermore,
that two of said board shall be chosen from the Eastern
. Shore, two from the Western Shore outside of Baltimore
city, and the remaining three from Baltimore city. The
terms of office of all members so elected shall begin on
the first. Tuesday in June, in the year in which they snail
be respectively elected. Each board is to have the ex-
clusive fight to examine, pass upon the qualifications of,
and license its own applicants. The examiners shall be
physicians actually engaged in the practice of medicine
or surgery in the State of Maryland, and of recognized
ability and honor. 'No member of any medical college