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day in June, nineteen hundred and two, said two boards of medical
examiners shall be reorganized, and thereafter said boards shall be
constituted as follows: Each of said boards]. The Board of Medical
Examiners for the State of Maryland, selected by The Medical and
Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland, shall continue after June 1, 1957, as
constituted on that date, with each member serving for the remainder
of the time for which selected. The Board shall consist of eight
members, who shall be selected by the Medical and Chirurgical
Faculty of the State of Maryland [, and the Maryland State Homeo-
pathic Medical Society, respectively,] at the annual meeting[s] of
said [respective societies] Faculty; and each appointee is immedi-
ately after his selection to be furnished with a certificate thereof by
the [society electing him] Faculty. Each such member of said
[respective] Board [s, except those elected in the year nineteen
hundred and two,] shall serve for four years, or until his successor is
[appointed] selected and qualified. [At their respective annual
meeting held in the year nineteen hundred and two, each of said
aforementioned societies shall elect the full number of eight ex-
aminers for its respective board, of whom two shall be elected for
four years, two for three years, two for two years, and two for one
Year, and thereafter] Two examiners shall be selected by [each
society] the Faculty in each year, [as hereinbefore provided,] to
serve for a term of four years or until their successors are [ap-
pointed] selected and qualified, the outgoing members to be eligible
for re-election. The terms of office of all members so selected shall be-
gin on the first [Tuesday] day in June, in the year in which they shall
be respectively selected; [each] the Board is to have the exclusive
right to examine, pass upon the qualifications of and license [its own]
applicants for the practice of medicine or surgery in the State of
Maryland. The examiners shall be physicians actually engaged in
the practice of medicine or surgery in the State of Maryland, and
of recognized ability and [honor] integrity. [No member of any
medical college or university, who passes upon the qualifications of
graduates of any medical school, shall be eligible to serve as a member
of either of said boards.] In case of a vacancy occurring [in either
of said] on the Board [s, the board in which such vacancy shall
occur] it shall fill the same until the next annual meeting of the
Medical and Chirurgical Faculty, [or the Maryland State Homeo-
pathic Medical Society, according as the board in question may be
the representative of one or other of said societies,] when said
[society] Faculty shall select an examiner to serve for the remainder
of such unexpired term. The Governor shall, after reasonable notice
and opportunity for hearing, have the power to remove any member
of the Board for any of the following causes: misconduct in office,
incompetency, immorality, wilful neglect of duty or any cause which
is a ground for revocation of a license to practice medicine and surg-
ery in this State.

119. [Each of said boards] The Board shall, at its meeting on the
first Tuesday in June of each year, appoint [a] one of its members as
secretary-treasurer for the Board, whose term of office shall last for
one year, and who shall be eligible for re-appointment, and whose
duties shall be as follows: Within sixty days from the time of his ap-
pointment [by his respective board, it shall be the duty of] such
secretary-treasurer shall request the Clerk of the Circuit Court of
Baltimore City and the Clerk of the Circuit Court for each county in

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