1632 ARTICLE 43.

An. Code, sec. 203. 1904, sec. 164. 1904, chs. 172, 241, sec. 3. 1916. ch. 527, sec. 3.

254. It shall be the duty of said Board of Examiners of Nurses to meet
not less frequently than once in every year, notice of which meeting shall
be given in 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 appli-
cants for registration under this sub-title, to determine their fitness and
ability to give efficient care to the sick. Upon filing application for examina-
tion and registration each applicant shall pay a fee of ten dollars ($10.00).

An. Code, sec. 204. 1904, sec. 165. 1904, chs. 172, 241, sec. 4. 1916, ch. 527, sec. 4.

1922, ch. 230, sec. 204.

255. It shall be the duty of said Board of Examiners to determine,
and said Board is hereby empowered in its sound discretion to determine,
the qualifications of all applicants for registration; and each applicant shall
furnish evidence satisfactory to said Board of Examiners that he or she is
twenty-one (21) years of age, is of good moral character, has received the
equivalent of a high school education, and has graduated from a training
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; pro-
vided, however, that credit may be given by the said State Board of Exam-
iners for not more than eight months of said above mentioned three years
hospital training upon an applicant furnishing evidence to said Board of
Examiners that he or she has received a scientific or practical education or
training in some school, college, public health or similar organization,
which course is approved by said State Board of Examiners.

An. Code, sec. 205. 1904, sec. 166. 1904, chs. 172, 241, sec. 5. 1916, ch. 527, sec. 5.

256. All nurses graduating before June 1, 1906, possessing the above
qualifications shall be permitted to register without examination upon pay-
ment of registration fee. Nurses who shall show to the satisfaction of the
Board of Examiners that they are graduates of training 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 on
March 25, 1904, or have been engaged in nursing five years after grad-
uation, prior to March 25, 1904, also those who are in training on March
25, 1904, and shall graduate hereafter, and possess the above quali-
fications, shall be entitled to registration without examination, provided
such application be made before June 1, 1906. Graduates of Training
Schools in connection with special hospitals, giving a two years' course,
who shall obtain one year's additional training in an approved general
hospital, shall be eligible for registration without examination before
June 1, 1906; or said graduates shall be eligible for registration prior to
said date upon passing a special examination before the Board of Examiners
in subjects not adequately taught in the training schools from which they
have been graduated.