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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 shall
be respectively elected. Each board is to have the ex-
clusive right 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
or university, who passes upon the qualifications of grad-
uates of any medical school, shall be elected to serve as a
member of either of said boards. In case of a vacancy
occurring in either of said boards, the board in which
such vacancy shall occur shall fill the same until the next
annual meeting of the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty,
or the Maryland State Homoepathic Medical Society, ac-
cording as the board in question may be the representa-
tive of one or other of said societies, when said society
shall elect an examiner to serve for the remainder of such
unexpired term.

"40 A. Each of said boards shall, at its meeting on the
first Tuesday in June of each year, appoint a secretary-
treasurer for the board, whose term of office shall last for
one year, and who shall be eligible for reappointment,
and whose duties shall be as follows: Within sixty days
from the time of his appointment by his respective
board, it shall be the duty of the Clerk of the Circuit
Court of Baltimore city and the Clerk of the Circuit
Courts of each county in the State, to furnish the secre-
tary-treasurer of each board a list of all physicians who
have been legally registered in said court. To all those
physicians who have at that time been practising in the
State without having been legally registered, said secre-
tary-treasurer shall send a printed notice of the section
of this Act relating to the duty of the Police Commis-
sioners in Baltimore city, and the sheriffs of the counties
in the State under this law. Within four months of the