The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1881-03-15

An Act to regulate the Practice of Medicine
this State and for other purposes:

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An Act to regulate the Practice of Medicine in
this State and for other purposes
l. There shall be appointed by the Governor
of this State, six Boards of Medical Examiners
consisting of not less than three nor more than
five practitioners of medicine of acknowledged
skill and experience and of five years practice
in this State said Boards to be located respect
lively at Tallahassee, Jacksonville, Pensacola,
Key West, Ocala and Tampa whose duty it
shall be to carefully examine any or all persons,
not graduates of medicine who have not here
tofore practced medicine in this State and, if
found competent TO practice the same, the said
Board shall issue q certificate to that purport to
such person, which certificate shall be recorded
in the Office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court of
each county where the person receiving it may
practice.
g. The examination by the Board thus APP
pointed shall include the branches of Anatomy,
Operative and Minor Surgery, Obstetrics, Dis
eases of Women and Children, and all the gen.
eral laws of health.
g. The said Board of Medical Examiners shall
be allowedto chtrge and receive the sum of five
dollars for each person SO examined, to be paid
upon receipt Of certificate of competency, by the
party examined.
A. That from and after the approval of this
act any person who shall continue the practice
of Medicine, Surgery or Obstetrics in this State,
without having first obtained such certificate,
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l of this act, shall be deemed guilty of a misde-
meanor, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be
punished by fine not exceeding two hundred
dollars ner less than fifty dollars, or imprison-
ment in the county Jail not exceeding six months,
or by both fine and Imprisonment at the dis
cretion of the court; Fr0rtded, that the provis-
ions of this act shall not be construed as apply
ing TO Surgeons or Physicians temporarily in
this State when sent for TO perform surgical
operations, or for consultation, or to women
commonly known and designated as mdwives
ProrSded further, that this act shall not apply to
Physicians now practicing in this State.
s. Said Boards may adopt such rules and reg
ulations as TO examinations and CERTIFICATES as
they may deem proper, not inconsistent with the
Constitution and laws of this State.
An Act to keep in Good Repair the Public Roads
and Highways in this State
1. That the Supervisors Of each and every road
in any county of this State, shall return under
oath, after each road working, list of all hands
notified to work said road and who have failed
or refused to work said road, who in his judg
ment shall not have legal or sufficient excuse
for failing to work said road, to the Justice OF the
Peace in or nearest to his road division, and said
Justice Of the Peace shall forthwith issue his
cdpiGs to any lawful officer to arrest said person
or persons SO returned, and to bring him or them
before him on day certain, to show cause, if
any he or they may have, why they failed or
refused to work said road and if said cause so
shown be not sufficient in the judgment of said
Justice, they shall be deemed guilty Of INSIDE
meanor and fined not less than one, nor mere
than twenty dollars, or be imprisoned in the
county jail not less than twenty, nor more than
thirty days, at hard labor, under the supervision
of the County Commissioners of the respective
counties PROVIDED, That nothing in this act be
so construed as to prevent any person who IS
subject to perform road duty from employing
another person of suitable ability to perform each
road duty in his stead
2. 1t shall be the duty Of the Road Commits
sioners in each and every county of this State.
to return, under oath, to the nearest Justice Of
the Peace in the road district, any Supervisor
who shall fall or refuse to comply with the pro-
visions Of this act, who shall be deemed guilty
of misdemeanor. and upon conviction, shall be
punished by fine not less than ten nor more
than twenty dollars. or by Imprisonment IN the
county Jail not less than ten nor more than
thirty days.
g. 1t shall be the duty of the County Com
missioners OF each and every county in this
State to return. under oath, each and every
Road Commissioner in their county, who shall
fail 10 perform the duties herein imposed, 20 any
Justice of the Peace of their county, and said
Road Commissioners shall be deemed guilty Of
Q misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall Be
fined not less than ten nor more than twenty
dollars, or be imprisoned IN the county jail not
less than ten nor more than thirty days. Any
of the County Commissioners of any of the
counties of this State who shall fail to perform
any of the duties herein designated, shall Be
deemed guilty Of mathematics in once, and upon
conviction, shall be punished by fine not ex-
ceeding one hundred dollars or by imprisonment
in the county Jail not exceeding six months, and
it is hereby made the special duty Of the Grand
Juries of the counties Of this State, to agesti-
gate the action Of the County Commissioners ct
their respective Counties as to their duties here
in specified.
4 4. That any person summoned to work any
road In any Of the counties Of this State shal Be
allowed to pay ut the rate Of Nfty cents per day
for the time he shall be summoned 70 work said
road, to the Road Supervisor, who shah return
all moneys received to the Road CommimioneFs,
who shall spply It on the road from which It
was collected; and the failure Of any 6upesvisDK
70 20 pay over sAid moneys, and any Road Com
missioner to 20 apply the same, shall be dee1aed
misdemeaner, and pu1ished as AhOYe specinsd.
5. That any and al persons liable t. Wegk On
the roads and highways Of this State, shan not
be required to work on the public roads and high
wsysmore than six daysin year, except in eAAes
Of storms or other casualties; RVsidak hat no
person living In any Incorporated city q t0wn
IN this State shall be compelled to wnEk I'd
roads beyond the limits Of such incorporated
CITY or town