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MEDICAL FACULTY OF MARYLAND. [ART. — .

organization for each district, and at their first meet-
ing to elect by ballot twelve respectable regular
physicians in the city of Baltimore, and six in each
county and annually thereafter one half that num-

Permanent
board of
examiners

ber, who shall constitute a permanent board of ex-
aminers for each district.

Ibid. s. 3
To be divided
into two
classes.

3. Immediately after they shall be assembled in
consequence of their first election, they shall be
divided by lot into two equal classes; the seats of
the examiners of the first class shall be vacated at
the expiration of the first year, and those of the
second class at the expiration of the second year, so
that one-half may be chosen every year; and if

Vacancies

vacancies happen by resignation or otherwise, the
president of the faculty of the district shall make
temporary appointments until the next meeting of
the faculty, which shall then fill such vacancies.

Ibid s. 4.
Quorum for
examining can-
didates

4. Any six of the examiners elected for the city
of Baltimore, and any three of those elected for each
county shall constitute a quorum of the board in the
said districts for examining such candidates as may
apply; and shall subscribe their names to each

Licenses.

license granted by them, which license shall also
be countersigned by the president of the faculty of
the district, and have the seal of the faculty of the
state affixed thereto by the secretary, upon the pay-
ment into the hands of the treasurer of the sum of
ten dollars ; and any two of the said examiners may
grant a license to practice until a board can be held
in conformity with this act.

Ibid. c. 6.
Delegates to
the central
medical board
of examiners.

5. On the second Monday next succeeding the
election of the first permanent board of examiners
each board shall send one delegate to the city of
Baltimore, where they shall meet under the name of
the Central Medical Board of Examiners for the state
of Maryland, for the purpose of adopting a common
seal, and making such rules and regulations as they
may consider expedient to establish uniformity in
the proceedings of the different boards.