EMERSON C. HARRINGTON, GOVERNOR. 695

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Article 75A of the Code of Public General
Laws of Maryland, (Bagby's Edition), title "Public Account-
ant, " be, and the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted with
amendments to read as follows:

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That any citizen of the United States, or person who has
duly declared his intention of becoming such citizen, residing
or having a place for the regular transaction of business in
the State of Maryland, being over the "age of twenty-one years,
and of good moral character, and who shall have received from
the Governor of the State of Maryland, a certificate of his
qualification to practice as a certified public accountant, as
hereinafter provided, shall be styled and known as a certified
public accountant, and no other person shall assume such title,
or use the abbreviation "C. P. A. " or any other words, letters
or figures to indicate that the person so using the same is such
certified public accountant.

Section 2. The Governor shall, within sixty days after the
enactment of this Article, appoint a board of five examiners
for the examination of persons applying for certificates there-
under, who shall hold office until their successors are appointed
and qualify, three of said examiners shall be certified public
accountants, to be selected by the Governor from resident cer-
tified public accountants of this State, one of which said three
examiners shall hold office for the term of one year, one for
the term of two years, and one for the term of three years, and
upon the expiration of the term of each examiner, and of each
succeeding term, an examiner shall be appointed by the Gov-
ernor for the term of three years, selected by the Governor
from resident certified public accountants of this State. The
other two members of said board of examiners shall consist of
one attorney-at-law, (who is not also a certified public account-
ant, ) residing, practicing, and in good standing in the Courts
of the State of Maryland, and the other an economist, a res-
ident of the State of Maryland, appointed from a list of three
names submitted by the President of the Johns Hopkins Uni-
versity of Baltimore City, each of whom shall hold office for
the term of two years, and upon the expiration of each of said
terms, and each succeeding term, their successors shall be ap-
pointed for a like term, such successors to be practicing attor-
neys and economists as hereinbefore provided; and in event
of a vacancy occurring in said board, the Governor shall in