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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 612.

not yet received their diplomas, shall upon application be
examined in all the branches enumerated in section 42 of this
Article by the State licensing board, the final certificate and
license of the said board being withheld until the diploma of
the proper medical college, with the candidate's name inscribed,
be produced to the secretary of the board. Diplomas pre-
sented by graduates of foreign colleges shall be accepted if
a course of four years' study has been required by said foreign
college before issuing such diploma.

Entitled to
license
in Maryland

43 A. Any physician who may change his residence from
the District of Columbia to the State of Maryland, or who
while living in the District of Columbia shall desire to prac-
tice medicine Or surgery in the State of Maryland, shall, upon
application to the examining board of the State of Maryland,
be entitled to a license, without fee and without examination ;
provided, that the application be properly endorsed at the time
it is presented by the examining board of the District of Colum-
bia, certifying to the proficiency and professional standing of
the applicant ; and provided further, that the examining board
of the District of Columbia shall, under the laws thereof,
grant like and equal privileges to licensed physicians of this
State who may remove to said District of Columbia, or while
continuing to reside in this State may desire also to practice in
said District.

Fee
to be paid.

45. A fee of twenty dollars shall be paid to the secretary-
treasurer of the board before whom the applicant appears
before such examination is had, which payment shall entitle
said applicant to a second examination, in case of failure, at
the expiration of six months and within twelve months there-
after; said fee to be applied by said board toward paying the
expenses of said board.

License
refused.

46. The board shall refuse to grant a license to any appli-
cant who may be radically deficient in his examination in any
essential branch ; provided, that in any case of failure at any
such examination, the candidate shall not be permitted to take
another examination before either board until after the expira-
tion of six months from the date of his rejection ; provided,
however, that any applicant who has heretofore, during the
previous year before the passage of this Act, or who shall
hereafter so fail, shall be credited as having passed in such
branches as he has or shall have been found proficient in, and
he shall not be again examined in said subjects.

License to be
filed with
clerk
of Court.

48. Any person receiving a license from either of said
boards shall tile the same at once with the clerk of the Circuit
Court of the county in which he or she may reside, or with
the clerk of the Superior Court of Baltimore City, if said