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or completed within the same calendar year, shall riot
satisfy the above requirement; provided also, that in the
case of students who at the time of the passage of this
Act shall be in their second year in a medico college,
a three years' course of study or attendance on three
courses of lectures delivered in different years shall sat-
isfy said requirement. Proof of the qualifications of ap-
plicants, as above, shall, if required, be made by affi-
davits, at the time of the making of said application and
payment ofxfee as provided. The president of the board
to whom such application shall have been made, if satisfied
with the same shall direct the secretary-treasurer thereof
to issue to said applicant an order for examination and
when said applicant shall have passed an examination as
to proficiency satisfactory to said board, the president
thereof shall grant to such applicant a license to prac-
tice medicine or surgery in the State of Maryland. If
the president of either board of medical examiners shall
have refused any application, either for want of the
qualifications necessary to entitle such applicant to an
examination as hereinbefore provided, or for want of
proficiency of such applicant upon being subjected to an
examination, then the president of neither of said boards
shall entertain or pass upon a subsequent application
from said applicant until after the expiration of six
months from the rejection of said previous application.
The respective boards are authorized to license, without
examination, applicants who present proper certificates
of proficiency issued by other State boards of medical
examiners, the requirements of which are of as high a
standard as those governing the boards of medical exam-
iners of this State; such applicants, however, being still
required to furnish the same proof of qualifications re-
quired of other applicants by this section.

" 45. A fee of fifteen dollars shall be paid to the secre-
tary-treasurer of the board before whom the applicant
appears, before such examination is had, which payment
shall entitle said applicant to a second examination in
case of failure, at the expiration of six months and with-
in twelve months thereafter; said fee to be applied by
said board toward paying the expenses of said board.

"46. The boards shall refuse to grant a license to any
applicant who may be radically deficient in his examina-