654 HEALTH. [ART. 43

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, and has either
received a diploma conferring the degree of doctor of medicine from
some legally incorporated medical college in the United States or a
diploma or license conferring the full rights to practice 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 having entrance requirements and a stand-
ard of education as defined by the Association of American Medical
Colleges or the Intercollegiate Committee 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 practiced 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 practiced; 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 appli-
cants 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 satisfac-
tory to said board the president thereof shall grant to such applicant 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 enter-
tain or pass upon a subsequent application from said applicant until
after the expiration of six months .from the rejection of said previous
application. The respective boards are authorized to license without
examination applicants who present proper certificates of proficiency
and professional standing at the time of application issued by boards
of medical examiners of the District of Columbia and of other States,
the requirements of which are of as high a standard as those governing
the boards of medical examiners of this State; provided such boards of
such States or District grant the same privileges to licentiates of the
examining boards of Maryland: such applicants, however, being still
required to furnish the same proof of qualifications required of other
applicants by this Section. Medical students, at the end of their sec-