STATE BOARD OF EXAMINERS OF OPTOMETRY.
Address the Secretary.
(All Terms Expire 1920.)

Nome. Postoffice.
W. B. Brown, President. ......................... .Fruitland, Md.
B. W. Hazell, Secretary, 121 N. Fulton Ave. ............ Baltimore
F. W. McCallister.................................... Baltimore
John J. Alien................................ Washington County
Harry B. Clogg. .................................... . .Baltimore

The Governor appoints five from a list of ten names furnished him
by the Maryland Association of Optometry. Term, two years from ap-
pointment. Vacancies are also filled by the Governor for the remainder
of the term and are selected from a list of four names furnished as in
the original appointments. (Ch. 652, 1914.)
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 recorded
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., Ophthalmologist, 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 statistical
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.