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An. Code, 1924. sec. 116. 1912, sec. 108. 1904, sec. 79. 1888, sec. 40. 1888, ch. 429.

1892, ch. 296. 1902, ch. 612.

117. From and after the first Tuesday in June, eighteen hundred and
ninety-two, there shall be and continue to be two separate boards of medical
examiners for the State of Maryland—one representing the Medical and
Chirurgical Faculty of the State of Maryland, and one representing the
Maryland State Homeopathic Medical Society of the State of Maryland.
The members of said respective boards in office on the eleventh day of April,
1902, shall continue to hold and exercise their respective offices up to the
first Tuesday in June, nineteen hundred and two. On the first Tuesday in
June, nineteen hundred and two, said two boards of medical examiners shall
be reorganized, and thereafter said boards shall be constituted as follows:
Each of said boards shall consist of eight members, who shall be selected
by the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of the State of Maryland, and the
Maryland State Homeopathic Medical Society, respectively, at the annual
meetings of said respective societies; and each appointee is immediately
after his election to be furnished with a certificate thereof by the society
electing him. Each such member of said respective boards, except those
elected in the year nineteen hundred and two, shall serve for four years, or
until his successor is appointed and qualified. At their respective annual
meetings held in the year nineteen hundred and two, each of said afore-
mentioned societies shall elect the full number of eight examiners for its
respective board, of whom two shall be elected for four years, two for three
years, two for two years, and two for one year, and thereafter two examiners
shall be elected by each society in each year, as hereinbefore provided, to
serve for a term of four years or until their successors are appointed and
qualified, the outgoing members to be eligible for re-election. The terms
of office of all members so elected shall begin on the first Tuesday in June,
in the year in which they shall he respectively elected; each board is to have
the exclusive right to examine, pass upon the qualifications of and license
its own applicants. The examiners shall be physicians actually engaged in
the practice of medicine or surgery in the State of Maryland, and of
recognized ability and honor. No member of any medical college or uni-
versity, who passes upon the qualifications of graduates of any medical
school, shall be eligible to serve as a member of either of said boards. In
case of a vacancy occurring in either of said boards, the board in which
such vacancy shall occur shall fill the same until the next annual meet-
ing of the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty, or the Maryland State Homeo-
pathic Medical Society, according as the board in question may be the repre-
sentative of one or other of said societies, when said society shall elect an
examiner to serve for the remainder of such unexpired term.

This section held not to be invalid because it commits the execution of the law
to "a body corporate, not an officer or agent of the government"; nor because of
method of appointment of medical boards. Scholle v. State, 90 Md. 741.

Cited but not construed in Manger v. Board of Examiners, 90 Md. 666.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 117. 1912, sec. 109. 1904, sec. 80. 1902, ch. 612, sec. 40A.

118. Each of said boards shall, at its meeting on the first Tuesday in
June of each year, appoint a secretary-treasurer for the board, whose term
of office shall last for one year, and who shall be eligible for re-appointment,
and whose duties shall be as follows: Within sixty days from the time of
his appointment by his respective board, it shall be the duty of the clerk of
the circuit court of Baltimore City and the clerk of the circuit court for