HERBERT R. O'CONOR, GOVERNOR. 51
CHAPTER 59.

(Senate Bill 84)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 121
of Article 43 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1939
Edition), title "Health", sub-title "Practitioners of Medi-

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 121 of Article 43 of the Annotated Code of
Maryland (1939 Edition), title "Health'', sub-title "Practi-
tioners of Medicine", be and the same is hereby repealed and
re-enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

121. All persons, except physicians who were practicing
medicine in this State prior to the first day of January, 1898,
who are now practicing medicine or surgery and can prove by
affidavit that within one year of said date said physician had
treated in his professional capacity at least twelve persons,
who shall commence the practice of medicine or surgery in any
of their branches after the eleventh day of April, 1902, shall
make a written application for license to the president of
either board of medical examiners which said applicant may
elect, accompanied by satisfactory proof that the applicant
is more than twenty-one years of age, is of good moral char-
acter and has either received a diploma conferring the degree
of doctor of medicine from some legally incorporated medical
college in the United States or a diploma or license conferring
the full rights to practice all the branches of medicine and sur-
gery in some foreign country; said diploma, if from a college in
the United States, must have been conferred by a legally incor-
porated college having entrance requirements and a standard
of education as defined by the Association of American Medi-
cal Colleges or the Intercollegiate Committee of the American
Institute of Homeopathy, respectively; provided, that this
requirement shall not apply to any physician who shall, prior
to the eleventh day of April, 1902, have practiced outside of
this State for at least three years, and who shall have been
duly registered or licensed in the place where he has so prac-
ticed; provided also, that in the case of students who, on
April 11? 1902, shall be in their second year in a medical col-
lege, a three years' course of study, or attendance on three
courses of lectures delivered 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