1382 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

retary of the State Board of Osteopathic Examiners, upon the
payment of a fee of twenty-five dollars, a written application for
examination, together with satisfactory proof that the applicant is
more than twenty-one years of age, is of good moral character,
has obtained a preliminary education, as hereinafter provided,
and has received a diploma conferring the degree of doctor of
osteopathy from some legally incorporated, reputable Osteo-
pathic college of the United States, or some foreign country,
wherein course of instruction consists of at least three separate
years of not less than nine months in each separate year. Ap-
plicants who receive their degree in osteopathy after the first
day of January, Anno Domini one thousand nine hundred and
seventeen, must have pursued the study of osteopathy for four
years, of at least eight months in each year, in four different
calendar years, the work of each year having been successfully
passed in some legally incorporated reputable Osteopathic school,
or college, prior to the granting of said diploma or foreign
license; provided, however, that any applicant who shall have
completed a course of study in any Osteopathic college, consist-
ing of three years of nine months each, and a post-graduate
course of at least five months, aggregating at least thirty-two
months, shall be accepted in lieu of the full period of four
years of eight months each, provided for in this Act. Provided,
further, that anyone who is in the practice of osteopathy in
some other State at the time of the approval of this Act, and
who is a graduate from a reputable and legally incorporated
college of osteopathy, providing a course of study of at least
four terms of five months each shall be eligible for examination,
upon all other terms awl conditions provided for applicants for
examination under the provisions of this Act. And provided,
further, that the completion of the regular four years' course
and graduation from a reputable literary college in which four
years' course, two years were devoted to scientific and biological
work in said literary college, shall be accepted by the State Board
of Osteopathic Examiners as an equivalent for the first year in a
recognized reputable Osteopathic college. Provided, that the
examinations of the first year of the said Osteopathic college
have been successfully passed, and accepted by the Osteopathic
college as dealing adequately with chemistry, toxicology, physics,
physiology, anatomy and the biologic sciences. Such proof shall
be made, if required, on affidavit. Upon the making of said
payment and proof, the State Board of Osteopathic Examiners,
if satisfied with the same, shall admit said applicant to exami-
nation as to his qualifications for the practice of osteopathy;