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first time they may each receive as compensation for such service the
sum of fifty cents, and, further, each member may receive as compen-
sation a sum to be determined by said Board which shall not exceed
ten dollars for each day actually engaged in necessary duties of his
office when not examining or registering applicants, and mileage at
three cents per mile for all distances traveled in going to and coming
from meetings of the Board. All expenses shall be paid from the fees
and moneys received by the Board under the provisions of this sub-title,
and no moneys shall ever be paid to said Board out of the State Treas-
ury. All moneys received in excess of said compensation and mileage
as before provided for shall be held by the Treasury as a special fund
for meeting expenses of said Board and carrying out the provisions' of
this sub-title.

1914, ch. 652, sec. 5.

256. The practice of Optometry is hereby defined to be the em-
ployment of any means, except the use of drugs, medicine or surgery,
known to the science of Optics for the purpose of determining, correct-
ing and prescribing by means of lenses for any optical condition exist-
ing in the human eye, and also the employment of any means, except
the use of drugs, medicine or surgery, for the purpose of detecting
diseased conditions.

1914, ch. 652, sec. 6.

257. No person shall hereafter practice Optometry, nor use the
title Optometrist in the State of Maryland unless he shall first have
obtained a certificate of registration or one of examination, and filed
the same for record or a certified copy thereof with the clerk of the
County or City of his residence, as herein provided in Section 263.
It shall be construed as practicing Optometry for any person to pre-
scribe, give directions or advise as to the fitness or adaptation of a pair
of Spectacles, Eye-Glasses or Lenses for another person to wear for
the correction or relief of any condition for which a pair of Spectacles,
Eye-Glasses or Lenses are used.

1914, ch. 652, sec. 7.

258. Every person who is actually engaged in the practice of
Optometry in the State of Maryland on April 13, 1914, shall within
six months thereafter file an affidavit in proof thereof with the Exam-
ining Board in Optometry, who shall make and keep a record of such
person, and shall for the consideration of the sum of five dollars issue
to him a certificate of registration. Recipients of said certificate shall
within three months present the same for record in the City or County
in which they reside, as provided for in this sub-title, and shall pay a
fee of fifty cents to the clerk for recording the same, and failure to
present said certificate within three months after issuance thereof shall
cause forfeiture of same........