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ARTICLE LXXVIA.

PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT.

	1. Who shall be styled a certified public accountant. 2. Governor shall appoint a board of examiners; their qualifica- tions and tenure. 3. Annual examinations. Certifi- cates to successful applicants.	4. Fee for examination. Governor may for sufficient cause revoke certificates. 5. Examination may be waived in favor of certain qualified per- sons. 6. Penalty for violation of this article.

1900, ch. 719.

1. Any citizen of the United States, or person who has duly
declared his intention of becoming such citizen, residing or
having a place for the regular transaction of business in the
State of Maryland, being over the age of twenty-one years and
of good moral character, and who shall have received from the
Governor of the State of Maryland a certificate of his qualifi-
cation to practice as a public expert accountant, as hereinafter
provided, shall be styled and known as a certified public
accountant; and no other person shall assume such title, or
use the abbreviation "C. P. A., " or any other words, letters
or figures to indicate that the person using the same is such
certified public accountant.

Ibid.

2. The Governor shall, within sixty days after the enactment
of this article, appoint a board of four examiners for the
examination of persons applying for certificates thereunder,
two of said examiners shall be public accountants, selected
from a list of six names proposed by the Maryland association
of public accountants, one of which said two examiners shall
hold office for the term of one year, and one for the term of
two years, and upon the expiration of each of said terms, and
of each succeeding term, an examiner shall be appointed for
the term of two years, and after the year nineteen hundred
each successor to said two examiners shall be appointed from
such persons as may hold certificates as certified public