Application of Bernaldo Decorion

This is an appeal from the decree of the circuit judge at chambers affirming the action of the board of massage in its refusal to grant the appellant a masseur's certificate of registration. The validity of the decree is challenged by the appeal upon the grounds (1) that the appellant has an absolute right to a certificate under Act 192, Session Laws of Hawaii 1947, by virtue of compliance with the provisions of section 13, (1), (b),1 and (2) that section 6, (3),2 is void as applied to the case of the appellant.

The facts of appellant's case are not in dispute. The appellant at the time of…