All communications should be addressed to the Secretary.
The duties of the Board are to issue certificates of registration to all
who furnish satisfactory evidence of having been engaged in the prac-
tice of Optometry previous to the passage of the law, if application is
made within six months of its approval, said certificates to be recorded
in the city or county of permanent residence.

To examine all persons not exempt in this Act desiring to practice
optometry in the State of Maryland, and if found qualified, to issue
certificates of examination and registration, which must also be re-
corded as in the case of certificates of exemption.

All certificates of examination on registration to be renewed an-
nually on application to the Board for the sum of $5.00 as prescribed in
the Act.

The Board is given authority to refuse registration or examination
to anyone not of good moral character, and to revoke any certificate of
registration if holder thereof is proven guilty of illegal practices, gross
immorality, gross incompetency or habitual drunkenness.

The construction and administration of the law is intrusted to the
Board.

The use of the title Optometrist is forbidden unless registered as
such.

The Act explicitly forbids an optometrist the use of the title Doctor,
M. D„ Opthalmologist, Physician or any title that would convey the im-
pression that drugs or surgery would be used in the treatment of defects
of vision.

Penalties are provided for violations of this Act.
All matters concerning the practice of Optometry, and the sale and
manufacture of spectacles and eyeglasses, registration and examination
of candidates, information as to number of licensees, etc., for statis-
tical purposes are proper subjects to be addressed to the Board.
Registered physicians are exempt from the provisions of this Act.
The Board has no employees.

BALTIMORE COUNTY RACING COMMISSION.
Address the Secretary.

(All Terms Expire 1916.)

Name. Residence.
Duane H. Rice, Chairman. ..............................Towson
J. Edwin Griffith. .............................. .Mt. Washington
Dr. M. J. S. Cromwell. ............................... .Baltimore

Secretary of Commission:
Gustave T. Dalcour, 207 St. Paul St.................... .Baltimore

Governor appoints three for a term of four years from March 28,
1912. (Ch. 77,1912.)

The duties of the Commission are:

To have jurisdiction over meetings for the conduct of horse racing
in Baltimore County.

To grant licenses to Associations entitled to receive them for the
purpose of conducting horse racing.

To regulate, restrict and have general supervision over betting and
the methods of betting on horse racing.

To approve and have supervision over the officials of a meeting
where horse racing is conducted.