1650 ARTICLE 43.

board shall call a meeting. A majority of said board shall at all times con-
stitute a quorum. The secretary of said board shall keep a full record of
the proceedings of said board, which shall at all reasonable times be open
to public inspection. The treasurer shall receive from the secretary all fees
paid for licenses and certificates and shall keep a record thereof, and of
all disbursements of said board in a book to be kept for that purpose. All
moneys paid to the board shall be deposited by the treasurer in some safe
banking institution, and all moneys paid out shall be approved by said
board and be made by check signed by both the president and the treas-
urer. The treasurer shall be required to give such bond as the board may
exact, and the said board shall make an annual report of its proceedings
to the Governor, which report shall contain an account of all moneys
received and disbursed by them pursuant to this sub-title.

An. Code, sec. 255. 1914, ch. 652, sec. 4. 1922, ch. 231, sec. 255.

314. Out of the funds coming into the possession of said board, each
member thereof attending the meetings for examination and registration
may receive as compensation the sum of three dollars for each applicant
that may be examined; and, further, each member may receive as com-
pensation 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 in
connection with the examination of any applicant, and the actual amount
of traveling expenses of such member incident to attending said meetings
of the board. In addition to any amounts which may be allowed by way of
per diem and traveling expenses, as above provided, all hotel and inci-
dental expenses which any member may incur when attending to the neces-
sary duties of his office shall be allowed to such member. All expenses shall
be paid from the fees and moneys received by the board under the pro-
visions of this sub-title, and no moneys shall ever be paid to said board
out of the State treasury. All moneys received in excess of said compensa-
tion 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 pro-
visions of this sub-title.

An. Code, sec. 256. 1914, ch. 652, sec. 5.

315. The practice of Optometry is hereby defined to be the employment
of any means, except the use of drugs, medicine or surgery, known to the
science of Optics for the purpose of determining, correcting and prescrib-
ing by means of lenses for any optical condition existing in the human
eye, and also the employment of any means, exce.pt the use of drugs, medi-
cine or surgery, for the purpose of detecting diseased conditions.

An. Code, sec. 257. 1914, ch. 652, sec. 6. 1922, ch. 231, sec. 257.

316. No person shall hereafter practice Optometry, or 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 322. It shall be construed as prac-