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tion in any essential branch; provided, that in case of
failure at any such examination the candidate shall not
be permitted to take another examination before either
board until after the expiration of six months from the
date of his rejection.

"48. Any person receiving a license from either of
said boards shall file the same at once, or a certified copy
thereof, with the clerk of the Circuit Court of the county
in which he or she may reside, or with the clerk of the
Circuit Court of Baltimore city, if said person shall reside
therein, and it shall be the duty of sail clerk to register
the name of said person, and of the president of the
board signing said license, in a book kept for the pur-
pose, as a part of the records of his office; and the num-
ber of the book and the page therein containing said
recorded copy shall be noted by said clerk upon the face
of said license. In case said person should, after
the recording of such license, permanently remove his or
her residence to some other county of the State, or to
Baltimore city, he or she shall thereupon at once file
said license, or a certified copy thereof, for record as
aforesaid with the clerk of the Circuit Court of the
county or city to which he or she shall have so removed.
Said records shall be open to public inspection, under
proper restrictions as to their safe keeping, and in all
legal proceedings shall have the same weight as evidence
that is given to the records of conveyances of land; the
fee for each registration shall be one dollar, to be paid
by the person whose license is registered. "

"49. Repealed. "

"51. Repealed. "

"52. Said boards shall make a report to the Medical
and Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland, and the Maryland
State Homeopathic Medical Society, respectively, at each
annual meeting of said respective societies. "

"61. Any person shall be regarded as practising medi-
cine within the meaning of this Act, who shall attempt to
heal, operate on or prescribe for any ailment of another,
or shall append to his or her name the letters M. D., or
prefix the word Doctor, or the abbreviation thereof,
Dr., to his or her name, with the intent thereby to imply
that he or she is a practitioner of medicine or surgery;