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ticing Optometry for any person to prescribe, give directions or advise as to
the fitness or adaptation of a pair of spectacles, eyeglasses or lenses for
another person to wear for the correction or relief of any condition for which
a pair of spectacles, eyeglasses or lenses are used, or to use or permit or
allow the use of instruments, test cards, test types, test lenses, spectacles
or eyeglasses or anything containing lenses, or any device for the purpose of
aiding any person to select any spectacles, eyeglasses or lenses to be used for
worn by such last mentioned person or by any other person.

An. Code, sec. 258. 1914, ch. 652, sec. 7.

317. Every person who is actually engaged in the practice of Optometry
in the State of Maryland on April 13, 1914, shall within six months there-
after file an affidavit in proof thereof with the Examining Board in Op-
tometry, 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 record-
ing the same, and failure to present said certificate within three months
after issuance thereof shall cause forfeiture of same.

An. Code, sec. 259. 1914, ch. 652, sec. 8. 1920, ch. 132. 1922, ch. 231, sec. 259.

318. Every person, not exempt by Section 7, Chapter 652 of the Acts
of the General Assembly of Maryland of the Session of 1914, as codified in
the Annotated Code of Maryland, Article 43, Section 317, desiring to begin
the practice of Optometry in this State shall pass an examination before said
Board of Examiners, in such subjects and under such rules and regulations
as shall from time to time be adopted by said board. Such examination may
in the discretion of said board, embrace all subjects relative to optics and
Optometry contained in text-books or that are now or may hereafter be
taught in high-grade educational institutions teaching optics and Optometry
and kindred subjects, and shall include the anatomy, physiology and path-
ology of the eye, the use of all instruments used in making examination
of the eye, and such other subjects as said board may deem advisable. Any
applicant for examination must not be under twenty-one years of age, and
must be of good moral character, and must give evidence which shall be
satisfactory to the Board of Examiners of having had preliminary scholas-
tic and professional education equal to such standard as may be adopted
by said board. Such scholastic and professional standards may, in the
discretion of said board, be changed from time to time to meet the demands
of the profession. Information as to the scholastic and professional stand-
ard adopted by said board shall be furnished to any person upon his written
request and shall include any change made in such standard prior to the
receipt of such request. Any person applying for examination shall be
required to furnish satisfactory proof to said board of scholastic and pro-
fessional education equal to the standard in force at the time of such
application for examination, and, upon furnishing such proof, shall be
examined before said board at such time and place as said board may