972 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [Mar. 15

and 61, of Article 43, of the Code of Public General Laws,
entitled 'Health, ' sub-title 'Practitioners of Medicine, ' be,
and the same are hereby repealed and re-enacted with
amendments, that sections 49, 51 and 62 of said Article
be, and the same are hereby repealed altogether, and that
new sections be, and the same are hereby added to said
Article, to be designated respectively, 'Section 40 A, '
to follow section 40, section 61 A, to follow section 61,
and section 84, to follow section 63, and to read as fol-
lows: "

38. "All persons now practicing medicine and surgery,
or who shall hereafter begin to practice medicine and
surgery in any of their departments, except dentistry, in
the State of Maryland, shall possess the qualifications re-
quired by the sub-title of this Article. "

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: "Each of said
boards shall consist of seven members, who shall be
elected by the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of the
State of Maryland, and the Maryland State Homoepathic
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 in each year as oc-