FRANK BROWN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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to said article to be designated as sections forty -nine, fifty,

fifty -one and fifty-two, so that the said sub-title shall read

as follows :

39. Every person not now practicing medicine and sur-

gery, who shall hereafter begin to practice medicine, and

To practice
medicine,

surgery in any of its departments, except dentistry, in the

&c.

State of Maryland, shall possess the qualifications required

by this act.

40. From and after the first Tuesday in June eighteen

hundred and ninety-two, there shall be and continue to be

Two
boards of

two separate boards of medical examiners for the State of

medical
examiners

Maryland, one representing medical and chirurgical faculty

of the State of Maryland, and one representing the Mary-

land State Homeopathic Medical Society pf the State of

Maryland. Each board shall consist of seven members,

and each of said members shall serve for a term of four

years, or until their successors are appointed and qualified,

each board to have exclusive rights to examine, pass upon

the qualifications of, and license its own applicants, said

members of the first or old school hoard to be appointed by

the medical and chirurgical faculty of Maryland, of which

two shall be from the counties of the Eastern Shore, and

five from the Western Shore of whicli latter member two

shall be from the counties west of the Blue Ridge mountains ;

and said second or Homeopathic Board to be composed of

seven physicians appointed by the Maryland State Homeo-

pathic Medical Society, of which, three shall be resident of

Baltimore, and four of the State at large ; the appointees

shall be physicians actually engaged in the practice of

medicine, and of recognized ability aud honor; the term of

office of each board shall commence on the first Tuesday

in June, eighteen hundred and ninety-two. No member of

any college or university, and no physician, having a

pecuniary interest in the trade of pharmacy, shall be

appointed to serve as a member of either of said boards ;

vacancies occuring in such for unexpired terms shall be

filled by the board, in accordance with the foregoing pro-

visions of this section, and for expired term in same man-

ner as for first appointees.

41. That each board of medical examiners shall meet

within thirty days after receiving official notice of their ap-

Board of

pointment. At the first meeting of each of the boards respec-

medical

tively, an organization shall be effected by the election,

examiners.

from their own membership, of a president and secretary,

for the purpose of examining applicants for license each of

said boards of medical examiners shall hold one or more

stated or special meetings in each year, due notice of which

.