HEALTH 1881

one hundred dollars ($100) and not more than five hundred dollars ($500)
per annum, also traveling and other expenses incurred in the discharge of
her official duties. The Treasurer, before entering upon the discharge of
her duties, shall give bond in the sum of two thousand dollars ($2,000.00)
with a corporate surety, to be approved by the Board. The other members
of the Board shall receive five dollars ($5.00) for each day actually engaged
in this service, and all legitimate and necessary expenses. Said expenses and
salaries shall be paid from fees received by the Board under the provision
of this sub-title, and no part of salaries or other expenses of the Board shall
be paid out of the State Treasury. All money received in excess of the said
allowance and other expenses provided for, shall be held by the Treasurer
for meeting the expenses of the said Board and the cost of annual reports
to the Board.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 254. 1912, sec. 203. 1904, sec. 164. 1904, chs. 172, 241, sec. 3.

1916, ch. 527, sec. 3.

289. 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, 1924, sec. 255. 1912, sec. 204. 1904, sec. 165. 1904, chs. 172, 241, sec. 4.
1916, ch. 527, sec. 4. 1922, ch. 230, sec. 204.

290. 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, 1924, sec. 256. 1912, sec. 205. 1904, sec. 166. 1904, chs. 172, 241, sec. 5.

1916, ch. 527, sec. 5.

291. 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