EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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ble for registration without examination before June 1, 1906;

or said graduates shall be eligible for registration prior to

said date upon passing special examination before the Board

of Examiners in subjects not adequately taught in the train-

ing schools from which they have been graduated. And it

shall be unlawful after the expiration of that time for any

person to practice professional nursing as a registered nurse

without a certificate in this State. A nurse who has received

his or her certificate according to the provisions of this Act

Shall be

shall be styled and known as a "Registered Nurse." No

known as
"Registered

other person shall assume such title or use the abbreviation

Nurse."

"R. N.," or any other letters or figures to indicate that he or

she is a registered nurse.

SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That this Act shall not be con-

strued to affect or apply to the gratuitous nursing of the sick

Certain ex-
emptions.

by friends or members of the family, and also it shall not apply

to any person nursing the sick for hire, but who does not in

any way assume to be a registered nurse.

SEC. 7. And be it enacted, That any person violating any of

the provisions of this Act or who shall wilfully make any

False repre-
sentations a

false representation to the Board of Examiners in applying

misdemeanor.

for a certificate, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon

conviction, be punished by a fine of not more than five hundred

dollars.

Si'.c. 8. And be it enacted, That the State Board of Exam-

iners of Graduate Nurses may revoke any certificate for suffi-

Revocation ol
certificates

cient cause, but before this is done, the holder of said certificate

for cause.

shall have thirty days' notice, and after a full and fair hearing

of the charges made, by a majority vote of the whole board

the certificate can be revoked.

SEC. 9. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect

from the date of its passage.

Approved March 25, 1904.

CHAPTER 173.

AN ACT to amend the charter of the Home of the Friend-

less, a corporation carrying on beneficent work in Balti-

more City, created under the Act of the General Assembly

of Maryland, passed at January Session, 1852, Chapter 231.

WHEREAS, Said corporation, prior to the year 1859, increased

the number of persons composing the Board of Government