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treasurer thereof to issue to said applicant an order for examination, and
when said applicant shall have passed an examination as to proficiency
satisfactory to said board the president thereof shall grant to such appli-
cant a license to practice medicine and surgery in the State of Maryland.
If the president of either board of medical examiners shall have refused
any application, either for want of the qualifications necessary to entitle
such applicant to an examination, as hereinbefore provided, or for want
of proficiency of such applicant upon being subjected to an examination,
then the president of neither of said boards shall entertain or pass upon
a subsequent application from said applicant until after the expiration of
six months from the rejection of said previous application. The respective
boards are authorized to license without examination applicants who pre-
sent proper certificates of proficiency and professional standing at the
time of application issued by the National Board of Medical Examiners,
or boards of medical examiners of the District of Columbia and of other
States, the requirements of which are of as high a standard as those gov-
erning the boards of medical examiners of this State; provided such boards
of such States or District grant the same privileges to licentiates of the
examining boards of Maryland; such applicants, however, being still re-
quired to furnish the same proof of qualifications required of other appli-
cants by this section. Medical students, at the end of their second year of
study, who have, as verified by the certificate of the dean of the college
which they have attended, completed the studies of anatomy, physiology,
medical chemistry and materia medica in said college, shall on application
be examined in such studies by the State licensing board, the result of said
examination to be considered as part of the final examination, the full
regular fee to be paid at this time, no part thereof to be returned, but
placed to their credit for the remainder of the examination yet to be taken.
Medical students who have, as verified by the certificate of the dean of the
college which they have attended, completed a full four years' course of
studies and lectures, but who have not yet received their diplomas, shall
upon application be examined in all the branches enumerated in Section
120 of this Article by the State licensing board, the final certificate and
license of the said board being withheld until the diploma of the proper
medical college, with the candidate's name inscribed, be produced to the sec-
retary of the board. Diplomas presented by graduates of foreign colleges
may be accepted if the standards of such foreign colleges were, when such
diploma was issued, equivalent to the standard defined by the Association
of American Medical Colleges or the Intercollegiate Committee of the
American Institute of Homeopathy, respectively.

History of this section; it is not unconstitutional as creating an arbitrary classi-
fication. Watson v. State, 105 Md. 653 (affirmed in 218 U. S, 175); Scholle v. State,
90 Md. 739; Criswell v. State, 126 Md. 107.

Sec. 43 of Code of 1888 shows that act of 1892, ch. 296, was intended to apply to
persons commencing the practice of medicine after that act. Manger v. Board of
Examiners, 90 Md. 659; Scholle v. State, 90 Md. 738; Criswell v. State, 126 Md. 107.

See notes to sec. 132.

Ah. Code, 1924, sec. 121. 1912, sec. 113. 1904, sec. 84. 1902, ch. 612, sec. 43A.

122. Any physician who may change his residence from the District
of Columbia to the State of Maryland, or who while living in the District
of Columbia shall desire to practice medicine or surgery in the State of
Maryland shall, upon application to the examining board of the State of
Maryland, be entitled to a license without fee and without examination;