1230 HEALTH. [ART. 43

rated college requiring a four years' standard of education as
defined by the American Medical College Association or the
intercollegiate committee of the American institute of homeo-
pathy, respectively; provided, that this requirement shall not
apply to any physician who shall, prior to the eleventh day of
April, 1902, have practised outside of this State for at least
three years, and who shall have been duly registered or licensed
in the place where he has so practised; provided further
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 requirements; provided also, that
in the case of students who on April 11, 1902, shall be in
their second year in a medical college, a three years' course
of study, or attendance on three courses of lectures delivered
in different years, shall satisfy said requirements. Proof of
the qualification of applicants as above shall, if required, be
made by affidavits at the time of the making of said appli-
cation and payment of fee as provided. The president of
the board to whom such application shall have been made,
if satisfied with the same, shall direct the secretory-treasurer
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 .president
thereof shall grant to such applicant a license to practice
medicine and surgery in the State of Maryland. If the presi-
dent of either board of medical examiners shall have refused
any application, either for want of the qualifications necessary
to entitle such applicant to an examination, as hereinbefore
provided, or for want of proficiency of such applicant upon
being subjected to an examination, then the president of
neither of said boards shall entertain or pass upon a subse-
quent application from said applicant until after the expiration
of six months from the rejection of said previous application.
The respective boards are authorized to license without exami-
nation applicants who present proper certificates of proficiency
and professional standing at the time of application issued by
boards of medical examiners of the District of Columbia and
of other States, the requirements of which are of as high a
standard as those governing the boards of medical examiners
of this State; provided such boards of such States or District
grant the same privileges to licentiates of the examining boards
of Maryland; such applicants, however, being still required to
furnish the same proof of qualifications required of other
applicants by this section. Medical students, at the end of