BOARD OF EXAMINERS.—The State board of medical examiners, appointed by the governor, consists of nine members, persons of recognized professional ability and honor, five of the old school, three of the homœopathic, and one of the eclectic, among whom can be no member of any college or university having a medical department (Act 1890, c. 190, s. 1). The board must hold meetings for examination at the capital on the second Thursday of January, April, July, and October of each year and at such other times as they deem expedient; they shall keep a register of all applicants for examination, showing the name, age, and last place of residence of each candidate, the time he has spent in medical study in or out of a medical school, the names and locations of all medical schools which have granted the said applicant any degree or certificate of attendance upon lectures in medicine, and whether the applicant has been rejected or licensed, and it shall be _prima facie_ evidence of all matters contained therein (_ib._, s. 2). QUALIFICATION.—All persons commencing the practice of medicine or surgery in any of its branches must apply to the board for a license. Applicants are divided into three classes: 1. Persons graduated from a legally chartered medical school not less than five years before the application. 2. All other persons graduated from legally chartered medical schools. 3. Medical students taking a regular course of medical instruction. Applicants of the first class are examined in materia medica, therapeutics, obstetrics, gynæcology, practice of medicine, surgery, and surgical anatomy; those of the second and third classes are examined in anatomy, physiology, chemistry, materia medica, therapeutics, histology, pathology, hygiene, practice of medicine, surgery, obstetrics, gynæcology, diseases of the eye and ear, medical jurisprudence, and such other branches as the board may deem advisable; questions for applicants of the first and second classes are the same in the branches common to both. The board after January 1st, 1892, cannot license applicants of the second or third classes without satisfactory proof that the applicant has studied medicine and surgery three years, is of good moral character, and over twenty-one years of age; applicants of the third class, after they shall have studied medicine and surgery at least two years, can be examined in anatomy, physiology, chemistry, histology, pathology, materia medica, and therapeutics; if the examination is satisfactory to all the members of the board, it may issue a certificate that the applicant has passed a final examination in these branches, and such certificate, if presented by the applicant when he shall make application for a license to practise, shall be accepted by the said board in lieu of examination in those branches. All examinations shall be both scientific and practical, but of sufficient severity to test the candidate’s fitness to practise medicine and surgery (_ib._, s.