502 LAWS OF MARYLAND [CH. 268

is approved by the Board, which teaches a resident course
of thirty-two (32) months, comprising not less than thirty-
six hundred (3600) hours, and which requires active
attendance in the same. The applicant shall have a first
grade four (4) years high school education or the equiv-
alent thereof. ] The Board may admit to the qualifying
examinations for the practice of chiropractic in Maryland
any graduate of a chiropractic school or college, the cur-
riculum, teaching standards, and facilities of which are
approved by the said Board; in which the minimum course
for the granting of a degree of Doctor of Chiropractic
(D. C. ) is four academic years, comprising not fewer than
four thousand (4, 000) sixty-minute hours of resident

study; and which shall have required for entrance the

completion of two full years of satisfactory academic college
work in a college or university which is approved by the
Maryland State Department of Education. This college credit

shall include such courses in science as shall be required

by the Maryland State Board of Chiropractic Examiners.
STUDY; AND MUST ALSO SUBMIT CERTIFIED
TRANSCRIPTS OF RECORDS SHOWING THE SATIS-
FACTORY COMPLETION OF TWO FULL ACADEMIC
YEARS OF COLLEGE WORK IN A UNIVERSITY OR
COLLEGE APPROVED BY THE MARYLAND STATE
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION. THIS COLLEGE
CREDIT SHALL INCLUDE COMPLETED AND SAT-
ISFACTORY CREDITS IN THE SCIENCES OF BIOL-
OGY, CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS.

These provisions for the requirement of two years of
academic college work shall become effective January
JUNE 1, 1957, and no applicant shall be accepted for the
examination after that date unless all the requirements are
satisfied.

Application shall be made in writing and shall be signed
by the applicant in his own handwriting and shall be sworn
to before some officer authorized to administer oath, and
shall recite the history of the applicant as to his educa-
tional advantages, his experience in matters pertaining to
a knowledge of the care of the sick, how long he has
studied Chiropractic, under what teachers, what collateral
branches, if any, he has studied, the length of time he has
been engaged in clinical practice, accompanying same by
reference therein, with any proof thereof in shape of
diplomas, certificates, etc., and shall accompany said appli-
cations with satisfactory evidence of good character and
reputation.