THEODORE R. McKELDIN, GOVERNOR                     53

applying for certificates as certified public accountants be held
twice a year instead of once a year.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 3 of Article 75A of the Annotated Code of Maryland
(1951 Edition), title "Public Accountant", be and it is hereby re-
pealed and re-enacted, with amendments, and to read as follows:

3. Examinations of persons applying under this Article for cer-
tificates as certified public accountants as to their proficiency in the
theory of accounts, practical accounting, auditing, commercial law,
and principles of economics, shall be held at least [once] twice every
year, and be conducted according to such rules and regulations as the
said Board of Examiners may adopt for the purpose. The questions
propounded at said examinations shall be submitted to the entire
Board before being adopted, and shall be certified by the said Board
as a reasonable and fair test of the candidate's qualifications, and as
reasonably susceptible of answer or solution in the time allowed.
Each subject shall be marked separately, and every applicant shall
be "required to obtain a mark of seventy-five (75) per cent, in each
subject upon which he is examined. The examination papers shall
be preserved for ninety days after each applicant shall have been
informed of his marks, and every person taking said examination
shall be entitled to notice of his mark in each subject and shall have
access to his examination papers during said time upon application
to the Board. If any such applicant is a member of the bar of the
State of Maryland in good standing at the time of taking the certi-
fied public accountant examination, he shall be absolved from the
requirements of an examination in the subject of commercial law.
If any applicant shall have failed to pass the examination in all of
the five subjects aforesaid, but shall have met the requirements of
this Article in any three or more of the subjects, he shall be excused
from subsequent examinations in those subjects. All persons who
shall pass the examinations in all of the subjects aforesaid shall be
recommended by the Board to the Governor, and to all such persons
the Governor shall issue the certificate mentioned in the first section
of this Article.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
June 1, 1955.

Approved February 22, 1955.

CHAPTER 40
(House Bill 184)

AN ACT to add a new section to Article 19 of the Public Local Laws
of Maryland (1930 Edition), title "St. Mary's County, " sub-title
"St. Mary's Hospital, " to be known as Section 202 3/4 and to follow

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