ART. 43] STATE VETERINARY MEDICAL BOARD. 34-3

1894, ch. 278.

71. The said board shall within six mouths from the date
hereof, prepare said register, in which the names of all graduate
practitioners in the State at the time and in actual practice shall,
on application to the said board, be inserted without examination
and shall also on application insert the names of such persons
who are practitioners in actual practice without a diploma or cer-
tificate or qualification from a recognized school, who have been
in practice for five years and upwards, prior to the enactment
of this sub-title, upon proof to the said board that they have been so
practising; that all persons practising at this time and not having
been so practising for five years antecedent to such enactment,
shall undergo an examination before the said board, and if found
by said board competent to practise, the persons so examined and
approved shall be entitled to registration.

Ibid

72. The said board shall have power to reject any applicant
for registration whose examination papers or diploma are not sat-
isfactory.

Ibid.

73. No person shall be permitted to practise veterinary medi-
cine or surgery or any branch thereof in the State of Maryland,
who does not possess a diploma issued from a college or school
of veterinary medicine, duly incorporated and legally licensed
to issue diplomas; and if said diplomas shall be issued after the
first day of January, 1895, it shall be received only from a col-
lege or school of veterinary medicine, which shall require a three
years' course of study before issuing said diploma, and shall have
passed such examination or test as may be from time to time
instituted as a test of qualification by such board, and persons
producing such certificates or diplomas who pass such test
examination shall, on payment of such fees as hereinafter are
provided for, be registered as veterinary practitioners.

Ibid.

74. No moneys shall be paid out of the State treasury for the
use or purposes of this sub-title.