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number of eight examiners for its respective board, of whom
two shall be elected for four years, two for three years, two
for two years, and two for one year, and thereafter two
examiners shall be elected by each society in each year,
as hereinbefore provided, to serve for a term of four years
or until their successors are appointed and qualified, the
outgoing members to be eligible for re-election. The terms
of office of all members so elected shall begin on the first
Tuesday in June, in the year in which they shall be respec-
tively elected; each board is to have the exclusive right to
examine, pass upon the qualifications of and license its own
applicants. The examiners shall be physicians actually engaged
in the practice of medicine or surgery in the State of Maryland,
and of recognized ability and honor. No member of any
medical college or university, who passes upon the qualifica-
tions of graduates of any medical school, shall be eligible to
serve as a member of either of said boards. In case of a
vacancy occurring in either of said boards, the board in which
such vacancy shall occur shall fill the same until the next
annual meeting of the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty, or the
Maryland State Homeopathic Medical Society, according as the
board in question may be the representative of one or other of
said societies, when said society shall elect an examiner to
serve for the remainder of such unexpired term.

1902, ch. 612, sec. 40 A.

80. Each of said boards shall, at its meeting on the first
Tuesday in June of each year, appoint a secretary-treasurer
for the board, whose term of office shall last for one year, and
who shall be eligible for re-appointment, and whose duties
shall be as follows: Within sixty days from the time of his
appointment by his respective board, it shall be the duty of
the clerk of the circuit court of Baltimore city and the clerk
of the circuit court for each county in the State to furnish
the secretary-treasurer of each board a list of all physicians
who have been legally registered in such court. To all those
physicians who have at that time been practising in the State
without having been legally registered said secretary-treasurer
shall send a printed notice of the section of this article relating
to the duty of the police commissioners in Baltimore city and
the sheriffs of the counties of the State under this law. Within
four months of the time of his appointment he shall see that
all physicians entitled to register have been registered, and
that the names of all those who are not entitled to be regis-