ART. 43] PRACTITIONERS OF MEDICINE. 333

factory proof that the applicant is more than twenty-one
years of age, is of good moral character, has obtained a
competent common school education, and has either received
a diploma conferring the degree of doctor of medicine from
some legally incorporated medical college in the United States,
or a diploma or license conferring the full right to practise
all the branches of medicine and surgery in some foreign
country and has also both studied medicine three years
and attended three courses of lectures in different years in
some legally incorporated medical college or colleges prior to the
granting of said diploma or foreign license; provided, that two
courses of medical lectures both of which shall be either begun
or completed within the same calendar year, shall not satisfy the
above requirement; provided, that this condition shall not apply
to students who shall be in their second year in a medical college,
nor physicians who shall be practising medicine on the first
day of April, 1892. Such proof shall be made, if required,
upon affidavit, upon the making of said application and proof
and payment of fee as provided; the president of the board to
whom such application was made, if satisfied with the same, shall
direct the secretary 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 presi-
dent shall grant to such applicant a license to practise medicine
and surgery in the State of Maryland.

1892, ch. 296.

44. All examinations shall be conducted in such manner,
that the name, school of graduation and preparatory training of
said applicant shall not be made known to the board of examiners
until his examination papers have been graded. An applicant
receiving a majority of the votes of the board before whom the
applicant appears shall be considered to have passed a satisfac-
tory examination and entitled to the license of said board.

Ibid.

45. A fee of ten dollars shall be paid to the secretary of the
board before whom the applicant appears, before such examina-
tion is had, which said fee shall be applied by said board towards
paying the expenses of said board.