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register of all applicants for examination for a license to
practice medicine and surgery in this State; said register
for a license shall show the name, age and last place of
residence of each candidate, the school from which he or
she may have graduated, and whether such applicant was
rejected or licensed under this sub-title, but such matters.
shall not be written in said register or made public until
after the examination. "

"42. At the first meeting of an examining board, or at
a stated or special meeting held subsequently, suitable
provisions shall be made by each of the examining boards
to prepare a schedule of written examination upon Anat-
omy, Physiology, Medical Chemistry, Surgery, Practice
of Medicine, Meteria Medica, Therapeutics, Obstetrics and
Pathology, and shall require the same standard of ex-

cellence from all candidates. In the depart ment of Thera-
peutics and practice the questions shall be in harmony
with the tenets of the school selected by the candidate;
the standard of acquirements therein to be established

by each board for itself. Whenever members of any
board are necessarily absent from meetings held for the
examination for applicants for license, suitable temporary
provision shall be made for thorough examination in each
and all of the aforesaid subjects by the members 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 present shall be
"yes" or "no, " written with their signature upon the backs
of the examination papers of each candidate for the re-
spective 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 one 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-