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ment upon the candidates’ qualifications. A duty 
with discretion cannot be delegated.?8 This would 
seem to prohibit the employment of readers to 
mark the examination papers, for such reading 
makes the employed readers the real judges. Few 
states have provisions in their statutes for license 
by reciprocal agreements with other boards. In 
the absence of distinct provisions, the legality of 
reciprocal licenses is open to very grave question. 
Some of the statutes provide for examinations in 
writing, and that the examination papers shall 
be preserved in the office of the board. It is dif- 
ficult to see how such a provision can be observed 
in the case where a license is issued solely upon 
the basis of one previously issued in another state. 
Where the duties of an officer are partially min- 
isterial (such as the writing of a license), they 
may be delegated; but where they are judicial, or 
quasi-judicial in nature (as in the holding of an 
examination for license), they cannot be so dele- 
gated.2® A board of examiners in one state can- 
not, therefore, lawfully appoint the board in 
another state as its deputy to make examinations, 
nor accept the finding of the foreign board as its 
own decision in the case. (See § 9.) 
There is another objection to such license by 
reciprocity. A foreign board is not under the jur- 
isdiction of the state, and in case of malfeasance 
it could not be punished. Citizenship is one of 
the prerequisites for the holding of an office, and 
the foreign board may not therefore assume this 
relationship. 
28 PuBLic HEALTH, 272, 426. 570; Mechem, Publie Officers, 
29 Throop, Public Officers, 567, 568. 
