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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

no part of salaries or other expenses of the board shall be

paid out of the Treasury. All money received in excess of the

said allowance and other expenses provided for shall be held

by the treasurer for meeting the expenses of said board and

the cost of annual reports of the board.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That after June i, 1906, it shall be

Examination
of applicants

the duty of said Board of Examiners to meet not less fre-

for registra-

quently than once every year, notice of which meeting shall be

tion.

given to the public press and in one nursing journal one month

previous to the meeting. At this meeting it shall be their duty

to examine all applicants for registration under this Act to

determine their fitness and ability to give efficient care of the

sick. Upon filing application for examination and registration,

each applicant shall deposit a fee of five dollars.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That the applicant shall fur-

Applicant's

nish satisfactory evidence that he or she is twenty-three years

qualifca-
tions.

of age, is of good moral character, has received the equiva-

lent of a high school education and has graduated from a train-

ing school connected with a general hospital where three years

of training with a systematic course of instruction is given

in the hospital, or has graduated from a training school in

connection with a hospital of good standing supplying a

systematic three years' training corresponding to the above

standards, which training may be obtained in two or more

hospitals.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That all nurses graduating be-

To register

fore June 1, 1906, possessing the above qualifications shall

without ex-
amination.

be permitted to register without examination upon payment of

registration fee. Nurses who shall show to the satisfaction

of the Board of Examiners that they are graduates of train-

ing schools connected with a general hospital or sanitarium

giving two years' training or prior to the year 1897 having

given one year's training and who maintain in other respects

proper standards and are engaged in professional nursing at the

date of the passage of this Act or have been engaged in nursing

five years after graduation prior to the passage of this Act,

also those who are in training at the time of the passage of this

Act, and shall graduate hereafter and possess the above qual-

ifications, shall be entitled to registration without examination ;

provided, such application be made before June 1, 1906. Grad-

uates of training schools in connection with special hospitals

giving a two years' course who shall obtain one year's addi-

tional training in an approved general hospital shall be eligi-