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they may each receive as compensation for such service the
sum of fifty cents, and, further, each member may receive as
compensation a sum to be determined by said Board which shall
not exceed ten dollars for each day actually engaged in nec-
essary duties of his office when not examining or registering
applicants, an,d mileage at three cents per mile for all distances
traveled in going to and coming from meetings of the Board.
All expenses shall be paid from the fees and moneys received
by the Board under the provisions of this Act, and no moneys
shall ever be paid to said Board out of the State Treasury. All
moneys received in excess of said compensation and mileage as
before provided for shall be held by the Treasurer as a special
fund for meeting expenses of said Board and carrying out the
provisions of this Act.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That the practice of Optometry
is hereby defined to be the employment of any means, except
the use of drugs, medicine or surgery, known to the science of
Optics for the purpose of determining, correcting and pre-
scribing by means of lenses for any optical condition existing
in the human eye, and also the employment of any means,
except the use of drugs, medicine or surgery, for the purpose
of detecting diseased conditions.

SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That no person shall hereafter
practice Optometry, nor use the title Optometrist in the State
of Maryland unless he shall first have obtained a certificate of
registration or one of examination, and filed the same for record
or a certified copy thereof with the Clerk of the County or
city of his residence, as herein provided in Section 12. It shall
bo construed as practicing Optometry for any person to pre-
scribe, give directions or advise as to the fitness or adaptation
of a pair of spectacles, eye-glasses or lenses for another person
to wear for the correction or relief of any condition for which
a pair of spectacles, eye-glasses or lenses are used.

SEC. 7. And be it enacted, That every person who is actually
engaged in the practice of Optometry in the State of Maryland
at the time of the passage of this Act shall within six months
thereafter file an affidavit in proof thereof with the Examining
Board in Optometry, who shall make and keep a record of such
person, and shall for the consideration of the sum of five dollars
issue to him a certificate of registration. Recipients of said
certificate shall within three months present the same for record
in the city or county in which they reside, as provided for in