WM. PRESTON LANE, JR., GOVERNOR. 1627

opathy, 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
practiced; 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 delivered in dif-
ferent 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 appli-
cation 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 applicant shall have passed
an examination as to proficiency satisfactory 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 quali-
fications necessary to entitle such applicant to an examina-
tion, as hereinbefore provided, or for want of proficiency
of such applicant upon being subjected to an examination,
then the president of neither of said boards shall enter-
tain or pass upon a subsequent application from said appli-
cant until after the expiration of six months from the
rejection of said previous application. The respective
boards are authorized to license without examination appli-
cants who present proper certificates of proficiency and
professional standing at the time of application issued by
the National Board of Medical Examiners 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 exam-
iners 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,
from the National Board and the District of Columbia and
other States still being required to furnish the same
proof of qualifications required of other applicants by this
section. Either examining board may, in its discretion,
grant a license upon a special examination to a physician
or surgeon from another State, the District of Columbia,
or a foreign country, provided the applicant has met all
the preliminary and professional qualifications required
for obtaining a license by examination in this State, has