The Russellville Democrat., 1881-03-17
Text of the Senate Medical Bill
 as Amended by the House.

Text of the Senate Medical Bill as Amended by the House.
 A Bill for an Act to be Entitled an
 Act to Regulate the Practice of
 Medicine and Surgery in this
 State.
 Be it Enacted by the General As
 sembly of the State of Arkansas
 Section 1. That hereafter no per son shall practice medicine and sur gerry, or medicine or surgery, as 2 profession in this state without being registered as physicians and surgeon, or physician or surgeon, in the office of the clerk of the county court of some county in this state.
 Sec. ?. Each county clerk in this state shall keep Tn his office a we'll bound book, in which he shall regis ter the names of all such persons as shall be lawfully qualified, as here matter provided, and who shall ap- ply for registration as physician and surgeon, or physicians or sur geons, with the date of such regis tration.
 Section 8. That hereafter any person who may wish to practice as physician and surgeon, or either, in this state shall be allowed to regis ter as such, who shall file with the clerk of the county of any county court in this state a certificate of qualification, signed by . majority of the county board of medical ex aminers of the county in which he or she offers to register, provided that no person shall register as physieiak or surgeon until he or she shall have attained the age of twen- ty-one.
 Provided, further, That any per son living in county. in which no board is organized may apply to the board of some other county or to the state board.
 Section 4. That immediately af- ter the passage of this act, the coun. y judge of each county in the state shall appoint for his county a board of medical examiners, consisting of three persons, who shall be citizens of such county, and learned in tho sciences of medicine and surgery, of good moral character, and duly reg istsrsd under this act, who shall hold their officss until the first term of such county court in the year 18- S2, at which time, and every four years thereafter, said board shall again by filled by appointment as above provided, and should . vacan. cy occur at any time, the same shall be filled by appointment made by the county judge.
 Section 5. That the members of said board pshall, before entering upon the discharge of their duties, take the official oath prescribed by the constitution of this state. That at the first meeting of the msnb bsrs of such board, after they shall have been appointed preparatory to the transaction of the business assigned them under this act, they shall or ganize by slecting one of their mem. bers as president and another as sec. rstary. The regular meetings of such board shall be held quarterly st the courthouse of the proper coun- ty on the first Mondays in January, April, July and October in each year, and when 70 assembled, such board shall faithfully and impartial ly examine all such persons as shall appear before them for that purpose, touching their qualifications to prac- tics medicine and surgery, or either, and all such persons as shall satisfy such board of examiners, or . ma jority of them, that he or she is twenty one years of age, of good moral character, and duly qualified Tn knowledge and capacity to prae- tics medicine and surgery, CT either, shall receive from such beard s cer-