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application is addressd may, in his discretion, make inquiry,
and examine witnesses under oath, or receive other evidence as
to the truth of the statements contained in such application for
a permit to be registered; and if the president of either of such
boards of medical examiners shall act upon such application,
and shall refuse the same, then no president of the other of said
boards shall entertain or act upon any application of such appli-
cant for such permit. And upon the presentation of a permit
to be registered, signed by the president, and countersigned by
the secretary of either of said boards of medical examiners, to
the clerk of the county where such applicant may reside, or to
the clerk of the circuit court of Baltimore city, if said appli-
cant shall reside in Baltimore city, it shall be the duty of the
said clerk to register such application and permit, and the name
of such applicant as physician or surgeon, or both, in a book
to be kept for such purpose, and a certified copy of such entry
of registration under the seal of the court, shall be legal evi-
dence of such registration in all the courts of the State; pro-
vided, however, that the provisions of this sub-title shall not
apply to those practising medicine in the State of Maryland
prior to June, 1892, and who registered as practitioners of
medicine prior to July, 1894.
Manger v. Board of Examiners, 90 Md. 666. Scholle v. State, 90 Md. 738.

1894, ch. 217, sec. 55.

95. All persons who have commenced to practise medicine
or surgery in the State of Maryland since the first day of June,
1892, or who shall hereafter commence to practise medicine or
surgery in this State, shall not be entitled to be registered in
the registry of physicians and surgeons, as required by law,
except upon filing with the clerk of the circuit court of the
county or city in which he or she shall reside, a license from
one of the duly constituted boards of medical examiners of
this State, in accordance with the terms of section 88 and 89,
except that physicians and surgeons who have come into this
State since said first day of June, 1892, or who shall here-
after come into this State to follow the practice of medicine and
surgery, may receive a license, which, shall entitle them to be
registered as physicians and surgeons, in accordance with law,
upon application to one of the duly constituted boards of medi-
cal examiners, in accordance with the provisions of section 96
of this sub-title.