J. MILLARD TAWES, GOVERNOR                           1447

(4) The State or country issuing the original certificate extends
similar privileges to public accountants certified by Maryland.

(b) The Board shall MAY charge a fee of $50.00 for each such ap-
plication and certificate, to be paid by the applicant at time of
application.

6.

(a)    A partnership practicing in this State as certified public
accountants on July 1, 1961, or a partnership which may wish
thereafter to practice as such in this State, may register with
the Board as a partnership of certified public accountants, pro-
vided it meets all of the following requirements:

(1)   It shall have or intend immediately to establish a permanent
office in this State for such practice, which shall be in charge of a
partner thereof residing in this State.

(2)  The resident partner, at least one general partner, each part-
ner personally engaged in this State in the practice of public ac-
counting as a member thereof, and each resident manager in charge
of an office of the firm in this State, shall be a certified public ac-
countant of this State enrolled for practice therein under Section 10.

(3) Each partner thereof must be a certified public accountant
of some State in good standing.

(b)   The Board may prescribe by regulation the procedure for
such registration. The registration fee shall be $25.00 and shall be
paid by each partnership at the time it applies therefor.

(c)    A partnership which is so registered and which holds a
partnership enrollment certificate issued under Section 10 may use
the words "certified public accountants" or the abbreviation
C.P.A.s" in connection with its partnership name. Each such part-
nership shall notify the Board in writing within one month there-
after as to the admission, withdrawal or death of any partner or
any change in the partnership name.

7.

All persons or partnerships who, in accordance with former Article
75A of this Code, title "Public Accountants" registered with the
Board of Examiners of Public Accountants on or before January
1, 1925, as public accountants or as partnerships of public account-
ants, and received from said Board certificates as such, shall con-
tinue to be styled and known as "public accountants" but shall not use
any other words, letters or designation descriptive of such title.
Said persons and partnerships shall not be required to obtain addi-
tional public accountant certificates, but shall otherwise be subject
to all provisions of this article.

8.

(a) A partnership practicing in this State as public accountants
on July 1, 1961, or a partnership thereafter formed to prac-
tice as such, may register with the Board as a partnership
of public accountants, provided it meets all of the following require-
ments: