1110 HEALTH. [ART. 43

1904, art. 43, sec. 83. 1888, art. 43, sec. 43. 1888, ch. 429. 1892, ch. 296.

1902, ch. 612.

112. All persons, except physicians who were practising medicine
in this State prior to the first day of January, 1898, who are now
practising medicine or surgery and can prove by affidavit that within
one year of said date said physician had treated in his professional
Capacity at least twelve persons, who shall commence the practice of
medicine or surgery in any of their branches after the eleventh day
of April, 1902, shall make a written application for license to the presi-
dent of either board of medical examiners which said applicant may
elect, accompanied by satisfactory proof that the applicant is more than
twenty-one years of age, is of good moral character, has obtained a
competent common school education, and has either received a diploma
conferring the degree of doctor of medicine from some legally incorpo-
rated medical college in the United States or a diploma or license con-
ferring the full rights to practise 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 incorporated
college requiring a four years' standard of education, as defined by
the American Medical College Association or the intercollegiate com-
mittee of the American institute of homeopathy, respectively; provided,
that this requirement shall not apply to any physician who shall, prior
to the eleventh day of April, 1902, have practised outside 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
requirements; provided also, that in the case of students who on April
11, 1902, shall be in their second year in a medical college, a three
years' course of study, or attendance on three courses of lectures
delivered in different years, shall satisfy said requirements. Proof of
the qualification of applicants as above shall, if required, be made by
affidavits 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 appli-
cant a license to practice medicine and 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 appli-
cation. The respective boards are authorized to license without exami-
nation applicants who present proper certificates of proficiency and