Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1885-04-10
THE LAW ADMITTING PHYSICIANS
TO PRACTICE.

course, was in the city last week to be ex
amined by the local examining board FOL
admission to practice. The following Is
the law passed by the last legislature on
that subject:
1. Be it enacted by the general assem-
bly, Of Virginia, That there shall be FOL
this state board of medical examiners
consisting of three members from each
congressional district in the state, and
two from the state at large, whose term OF
office shall be four years. or until thell
successors are appointed and qualified
The term of office of the board first ap-
pointed, shall commence on the first day
of January, eighteen hundred and eighty
five.
2. The said board shall consist of men
learned in medicine and surgery, and snail
be appointed by the governor on the hrst
day of November, eighteen hundred and
eighty-four, and every fourth year there
after, from list of names to be recon-
mended by the medical society of Virgin
ia. Vacancies occurring in such board
for unexpired terms, shall be filed in the
same manner. Such recommendations
shall be by the votes of majority pres
ent at some meeting of the said society,
and the same shall be certified to the gov
ernor by the president and secretary OF
such meeting: provided however, that in
case the governor shall consider any OF the
persons SO recommended unsuitable. be
may decline to appoint such person Or per-
sons, and communicate the fact to the
presiding officers of said society, and such
society shall within ninety days thereaf-
ter. make other recommendations in the
manner hereinbefore prescribed, which
shall stand on the same footing in all re-
spects as those first made: and provided
further that if such society fail to make
such recommendations prior to the time
of appointment, or within ninety days
aforesaid, then the governor shall appoint
such board, either in whole or in part,
without regard to such recommendations.
II any of said examiners shall cease to re-
side in the district for which he was ap-
pointed, it shall vacate his office.
8. The members of said board of medi-
cal examiners, shall qualify and take the
usual oath Of Office before the county or
corporation court Of the county or corpo-
ration 10 which they shall respectively re-
side. Tie officers of said board shall be
a president, vice-presidant, and secretary
(who shall also act as treasurer); such Off
GERS to be members Of and elected by said
board. The first meeting Of the same
shall be at Richmond. at such time as the
governor shall notify the members by mail
to assemble. Subsequent regular meet
ings shall be at such times and places as
the board may prescribe, and special meet
1ngs may be held upon the call of the pres
ident and two members, but there shall
not be less than one regular meeting per-
annnm. Five members of said board shall
be quorum; said board may organize at
its fitst meeting, and may, at its first Or
any subsequent meeting, prescribe rules.
regulations, and bylaws for its own pro-
ceedings and government, and for the ex-
animation of candidates for the practice
of medicine and surgery by it's individual
members.
4. Il shall be the duty of said board, at
any of its meetings, and of the individual
members Of said board, any time, to ex-
anime all persons making applications to
them, who shall desire to commence the
practice of medicine or surgery in this
state. When the examination is by an
Individual member of the board, he shall
report the same to the president thereof;
and when an applicant shall have passed
an examination satisfactory as to profci-
ency, before three individual members of
said board, or before the board in session,
the president thereof, shall grant to such
applicant certificate to that effect. A fee
of five dollars shall be paid to said board,
through such officers or members as iC NAV
designate, by each applicant before such
examination is had. In case any appli-
cant shall fail to pass a satisfactory ex-
animation before the board, or before the
three Individual members to whom he
shall first apply, he shall not be permitted
to stand any further examination within
the next three months thereafter, nor
shall he have again to pay the fee prescrib-
ed as aforesaid: provided however, no ap-
pllcant shall be rejected upon his exami.
nation On accounted his adherence to any
particular school of medicine or system of
practice, nor on account of his views as to
the method of treatment and cure of disea-
SEES.
5. The fund realized from the fees afore-
said shall be applied by the board toward
its expenses, including reasonable COM
psnsation to the president and secretary.
6. ANY person who shall obtain a GER
tifcate as aforesaid from the president of
said board shall cause his name to be reg
istered in the clerks Office of the county
or corporation court for the county or cor
poration in which he shall reside; and it
shall be the duty of said clerk to register
the name of every such person, describing
such certificate, together with the date
thereof, and the name of the president of
the board, signing the same In book kept
for the purpose, as part of the records
of his court, which shall also give the
date of each registration, and bis fee for
each registration shall be one dollar, to be
paid by the person whose name is regis
tered.
Z. No person who shall commence the
practice of medicine or surgery after the
first day Of January, eighteen hundred
and eighty five, shall practice as phys
cian or surgeon for compensation without
having first obtained a certificate and
caused his nams to be registered as afore-
said. Any person violating the provisions