342 HEALTH. [ART. 43

1894, ch. 278.

67. The State veterinary medical board shall examine all
diplomas as to their genuineness, and each applicant not holding
a diploma shall submit to a theoretical and practical examination
before the State veterinary medical board, said examination to be
written, oral or both, which examination, if passed to the satis-
faction of the said board, shall entitle the applicant to practise
veterinary medicine and surgery, subject to provisions and regu-
lations of this sub-title and regulations of the said board.

Ibid.

68. All examinations of persons not graduates shall be made
directly by the State veterinary medical board, and the certifi-
cates given by the said board shall authorize the possessors to
practise veterinary medicine and surgery in the State of Mary-
land. All examinations of ungraduated practitioners must take
place before the thirty first day of December, eighteen hundred
and ninety-four. After that date no certificate shall be granted,
except to persons presenting diplomas from legally chartered
colleges.

Ibid.

69. Any person shall be regarded as practising veterinary medi-
cine and surgery, within the meaning of this sub-title, who shall
have received a license as mentioned in section 67; but nothing in
this sub-title shall be construed to prohibit members of the medi-
cal profession from prescribing for domestic animals in case of
emergency and collecting a fee therefor,, nor to prohibit gratuit-
ous services in an emergency, nor to prevent any person from
practising veterinary medicine and surgery on any animal belong-
ing to himself or herself. And this sub-title of this article shall
not apply to commissioned veterinary surgeons in the United
States army.

Ibid.

70. It shall be the duty of such board to keep a register of
all practitioners qualified under this sub-title practising veterinary
medicine and surgery or any branches thereof in this State, and
to cause the same to be published at least once a year in two
newspapers published in the city of Baltimore.