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may enforce the attendance of witnesses. Any certificate
which shall have been revoked may in the discretion of said
board be reissued after six months from the date of its re-
vocation, provided the cause for which such certificate shall
have been revoked shall no longer exist, and provided fur-
ther that the person whose certificate shall have been revoked
shall show to said board, upon examination, that he is fully
qualified to practice Optometry, and shall pay a fee of fif-
teen dollars for such reissuance. Any optometrist convicted
a second time for violation of the provisions of this sub-
title or whose certificate of registration or examination has
been revoked shall not be permitted to practice Optometry in
this State. An appeal may be taken from the action of the
board refusing to grant or revoking a certificate for such
causes to three disinterested optometrists, one of whom shall
be appointed by said board, another of whom shall be appointed
by the applicant, and the two so appointed to select the third,
and the decision of any two thereof shall be final and binding.
Thirty dollars shall be deposited with said board by said appli-
cant prior to the selection of the three persons aforesaid for
the purpose of defraying the expenses of said appeal. If the
decision of the board be not affirmed the said thirty dollars

is to be returned to said applicant and the expenses of the
appeal is to be borne by the board.

Section 266. Any person who shall violate any of the pre-
ceding provisions of this sub-title shall be deemed guilty of a
misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be fined not less than
twenty-five dollars nor more than one hundred dollars, or im-
prisoned not more than thirty days, or both fined and im-
prisoned, and his license may be revoked in the discretion of
the court.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act is hereby
declared to be an emergency law and necessary for the imme-
diate preservation of the public safety, and being passed upon
a yea and nay vote supported by three-fifths of all the mem-
bers elected to each of the two Houses of the General Assembly,

the same shall take effect from the date of its passage.
Approved April 13th, 1922.

CHAPTER 232.

AN ACT to authorize and empower the State Roads Commis-
sion of Maryland to build, construct and maintain with any