1094 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 527

their duty to examine all applicants for registration under
this Act, to determine their fitness and ability to give efficient
care to the sick. Upon filing application for examination and
registration each applicant shall pay a fee of ten dollars
($10. 00).

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty
of said Board of Examiners to determine, and said Board
is hereby empowered in its sound discretion to determine, the
qualifications of all applicants for registration; and each ap-
plicant shall furnish evidence satisfactory to said Board of
Examiners that he or she is twenty-two (22) years of age, is
of good moral character, has received the equivalent of a high
school education, and has graduated from a training school
connected with a general hospital where three years of train-
ing with a systematic course of instruction is given in the hos-
pital, or has graduated from a training school in connection
with a hospital of good standing supplying a systematic three
years' training corresponding to the above standards, which
training may be obtained in two or more hospitals.

SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That all nurses gradu-
ating before June 1, 1906, possessing the above qualifications
shall be permitted to register without examination upon pay-
ment of registration fee. Nurses who shall show to the satis-
faction of the Board of Examiners that they are graduates of
training schools connected with a general hospital or sanitarium
giving two years' training or prior to the year 1897 having
given one year's training and who maintain in other respects
proper standards and are engaged in professional nursing at
the date of the passage of this Act, or have been engaged in
nursing five years after graduation, prior to the passage of
this Act, also those who are in training at the time of the pas-
sage of this Act, and shall graduate hereafter, and possess the
above qualifications, shall be entitled to registration without
examination, provided such application be made before June
1, 1906. Graduates of Training Schools in connection with
special hospitals, giving a two years' course, who shall obtain
one year's additional training in an approved general hospital,
shall be eligible for registration without examination before
June 1, 1906; or said graduates shall be eligible for registra-
tion prior to said date upon passing a special examination be-
fore the Board of Examiners in subjects not adequately taught
in the training schools from which they have been graduated.