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corporated medical college in the United States, or a
diploma or license conferring the full right to practice
all the branches of medicine and surgery in some foreign
country; said diploma, if from a college in the United
States, must have been conferred by a legally incorpor-
ated college requiring a three years' standard of educa-
tion as defined by the American Medical College Associ-
ation or the Inter-Collegiate Committee of the American
Institute of Homoepathy, respectively; provided, that
this requirement shall not apply to any physician who
shall prior to the passage of this Act have practiced out-
side of this State for at least three years and who shall
have been duly registered or licensed in the place where
he has so practised; provided further, that two courses
of medical lectures, both of which shall be either begun
or completed within the same calendar year, shall not
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 medical college, a
three year's 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 of fee 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