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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

shall be made public, at such times and places as may be

determined by the members therereof respectively ; at said

stated or special meetings a majority of the members of the

board shall constitute a quorum thereof. Each of said

boards of medical examiners shall keep an official register

of all applicants for examination for a license to practice

medicine and surgery in this State, said register for license

shall show the name, age, and last place of residence of

each candidate, the school from which he or she may ha,ve

graduated, and whether such applicant was rejected or

licensed under this act, but such matters shall not be

written in said register or made public until after the

examination.

42. At the first meeting of an examining board, or at a

stated or special meeting held subsequently, suitable pro-

Schedule of

visions shall be made by each of the examining boards to

written ex-
amination

prepare a schedule of written examination upon anatomy,

physiology, chemistry, surgery, practice of medicine, mate-

ria medica and therapeutics, obstetrics, gynecology, pathol-

ogy, medical jurisprudence, and hygiene, and shall require

the. same standard of excellence from all candidates.

In the department of therapeutics and practice the ques-

tions shall be in harmony with the teuents of the school

selected by the candidate ; the standard of acquirements

therein to be established by each board for itself. Whenever

members of any board are necessarily absent from meetings

held for the examination of applicants for license, suitable

temporary provision shall be made for thorough examina-

tion in each and all of the aforesaid subjects by the mem-

bers present. The examination shall be fundamental in

charter and such as can -be answered in common by all

schools of practice. The votes of all the examiners prese at

shall be "yes " or " no," written with their signature upon

the backs of the examination papers of each candidate for

the respective branches.

43. That all persons commencing the practice of medicine

or surgery in any of its branches after the passage of this

Applica-
tion to be

act by the General Assembly shall make a written applica-

made to
the board,

tion for license to the president of either Board of Medical

Examiners which said applicant may elect, together, with

satisfactory proof that the applicant is more than twenty-

one years of age, is of good moral character, has obtained

a competent common school education, and has either

received a diploma conferring the degree of Doctor of Med-

icine from some legally incorporated medical college in the

United States, or a diploma or license conferring the full

right to practice all the branches of medicine and surgery