FRANK BROWN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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in some foreign country and has also both studied medicine

three years and attended three courses of lectures in differ-

ent years in some legally incorporated medical college or

colleges prior to the granting of said diploma or foreign

license ; provided, 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 requirement, pro-

vided, that this condition shall not apply to students who

shall be in their second year in a medical college, nor phy-

sicians who shall be practicing medicine at the time of the

passage of this act. Such proof shall be made, if required,

upon affidavit, upon the making of said application and

proof arid payment of fee as provided ; the president of the

board to whom such application was made, if satisfied with

the same, shall direct the secretary thereof to issue to said

applicant an order for examination, and when said appli-

cant shall have passed an examination as to proficiency sat-

isfactory to said board, the president shall grant to such

applicant a license to practice medicine and surgery in the

State of Maryland.

44. That all examinations shall be conducted in such

manner that the name, school of graduation and prepara-

How ex-
mination

tory training of said applicant shall not be made known to

to be

the board of examiners until his examination papers have

conducted.

been graded. An applicant receiving a majority of the

votes of the board before whom the applicant appears

shall be considered to have paused a satisfactory exami-

nation and entitled to the license of said board.

45. That a fee of ten dollars shall be paid to the secretary

of the board before whom the applicant appears, before such

Fee

examination is had, which said fee shall be applied by said

board towards paying the expenses of said board.

46. That the board shall refuse to grant a license

To refuse

to any applicant who may be radically deficient in his

license

examination in any essential branch ; provided, that in case

of failure at any such examination the candidate, after

the expiration of one year from his rejection, shall have the

privileges of another examination by the board to which

application was first made.

47. That every license to practice medicine and surgery

issned pursuant to the provisions of this act shall be sub-

License—

scribed by the president and secretary of the board before

by whom

whom applicant passed, and by each medical examiner,

signed.

who reported the licentiate as having successfully passed

said examinations. It shall also have affixed to it by the

person authorized to fix the same, the seal of said Medical