FRANK BROWN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

which he or she may reside, or the clerk of the Circuit Court
of Baltimore city, if the applicant shall reside in Baltimore
city, and such application shall be in writing, signed by the
applicant, who shall state, under oath, that he or she was in fact
a practitioner of medicine or surgery, in the State of Mary-
land, on or before the first day of June, 1892; and thereupon
it shall be the duty of said clerk to register such application
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 evidence of such registration in all of the courts
of this State.

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55 All persons who have commenced to practice medicine
or surgery in the State of Maryland since the first day of June,
1892, or who shall hereafter commence to practice 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 sections 47 and 48
of this article, except that physicians and surgeons who have
come into this State since said first day of June, 1892, or who
shall hereafter come into this State to follow the practice of
medicine and surgery, may receive a license, which shall enti-
tle them to be registered as physicians and surgeons, in ac-
cordance with law, upon application to one of the duly con-
stituted boards of medical examiners, in accordance with the
provisions of section 56 of this act.

Applicant to
file license
before en-
titled to
registration.

56. Physicians and surgeons of good moral and professional
standing, who have come into this State with intent to follow:
the practice of medicine and surgery within this State, since
the first day of June, 1892, or who shall hereafter come into
this State, being graduates of a medical college or university of
good standing, and who have been practitioners of medicine or
surgery for more than ten years prior to the date of the appli-
cation, may make application to the president of one of the
boards of medical examiners of this State, which application
shall be under oath, and shall state where and how long said
applicant has been engaged in the practice of medicine and
surgery, and from what medical college, university or other
institution of learning he or she has graduated; and there-
upon the said board of medical examiners shall have the
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Provisions as
to non-resi-
dent physi-
cians.