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cellence from all candidates. In the department of
Therapeutics and practice the questions shall be in har-
mony with the tenets of the school selected by the can-
ditate; the standard of acquirements therein to be estab-
lished by each board for itself: Whenever members of
any board are necessarily absent from meetings held for
the examination of applicants for license, suitable tem-
porary provision shall be made for thorough examina-
tion in each and all of the aforesaid subjects by the mem-
bers present. The examination shall be fundamental in
character and such as can be answered in common by all
schools of practice. The votes of all the examiners pres-
ent shall be "yes'' or "no, " written with their signature
upon the backs of the examination papers of each candi-
date for the respective branches.

"43. All persons, except physicians who were practis-
ing medicine in this State on the first day of June, 1892,
who are now practising medicine or surgery without be-
ing duly licensed and registered, or who shall commence
the practice of medicine or surgery in any way of their
branches after the passage of this Act, shall make a writ-
ten application for license to the president of either
board of medical examiners which said applicant may
elect, accompanied by satisfactory proof that the appli-
cant is more than twenty-one years of age, is of good
moral character, has obtained a competent common school
education, and has either received a diploma conferring
the degree of doctor of medicine from some legally in-
corporated medical college in the United States, or a
diploma or license conferring the full right to practice
all the branches of medicine and surgery in some foreign
country; said diploma, if from a college in the United
States, must have been conferred by a legally incorpor-
ated college requiring a three years' standard of educa-
tion as denned by the American Medical College Associ-
ation or the Inter-Collegiate Committee of the American
Institute of Homeopathy, respectively; provided, that
this requirement shall not apply to any physician who
shall prior to the passage of this Act have practiced out-
side of this State for at least three years and who shall
have been, duly registered or licensed in the place where
he has so practised; provided, further, that two courses
of medical lectures, both of which shall be either begun