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provided further, that two courses of medical lectures, both of"
which shall be either begun or completed within the same calen-
dar year, shall not satisfy the above requirements; provided
also, that in the case of students who, on April 11, 1902, shall
be in their second year in a medical college, a three years'
course of study, or attendance on three courses of lectures de-
livered in different years, shall satisfy said requirements. Proof
of the qualification of applicants as above, shall, if required, be
made by affidavits at the time of the making of said application
and payment of fee as provided. The president of the board
to whom such application shall have been made, if satisfied with
the same, shall direct the secretary-treasurer thereof to issue to
said applicant an order for examination, and when said appli-
cant shall have passed an examination as to proficiency satis-
factory to said board the president thereof shall grant to such
applicant a license to practice medicine and surgery in the
State of Maryland. If the president of either board of medical
examiners shall have refused any application, either for want
of the qualifications necessary to entitle such applicant to an
examination, as hereinbefore provided, or for want of profici-
ency of such applicant upon being subjected to an examination,
then the president of neither of said boards shall entertain or
pass upon a subsequent application from said applicant until
after the expiration of six months from the rejection of said
previous application. The respective boards are authorized to
license without examination applicants who present proper
certificates of proficiency and professional standing at the time
of application issued by the National Board of Medical Exam-
iners or boards of medical examiners of the District of Columbia
and of other States, the requirements of which are of as high
a standard as those governing the boards of medical examiners
of this State; provided such boards of such States or District
grant the same privileges to licentiates of the examining boards
of Maryland; such applicants,, however, being still required to
furnish the same proof of qualifications required of other appli-
cants by this section. Medical students, at the end of their
second year of study, who have, as verified by the certificate
of the dean of the college which they have attended, completed
the studies of anatomy, physiology, medical chemistry and
materia medica in said college, shall on application be examined
in such studies by the State licensing board, the result of said
examination to be considered as part of the final examination,
the full regular fee to be paid at this time, no part thereof to-