Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1894-05-04
PUBLTC GENER1L IA VS..
J. ROGER McsHERRY,
Secretary Of the Senate.
Il. J.. SMITH,
Chief Clerk Of the House Of Delegates

i IL. j.. bMIIH,
4 Chief Clerk Of the House Of DelegateA
CHAPTER 217.
AN ACT TO REPEAL AND nE-ENACT
1 SECTION FORTY SEVEN OF ARTICLE
FORTY THREE OF THE CODE OF PUBLIC
GENERAL LAWS, ENTITLED" HEAIlrH,"
SUBTITLE PRACTITIONERS OF MED
| ICINE," AND TO ADD ADDITIONAL
| SECTIONS THERETO, TO BE DESIG-
MATED AS SECTIONS 50, "a, 81, 56, 81,
IS, So and GO OF SAID ARTICLE:
SECTION !. Be IL enacted by The General
Assembly Of Maryland. That Section AZ Of
| Article 43 OF the Code OF Public General Laws
title Health" subtitle ''practltoners Of
| Medicine" be and the same Is hereby repealed
! and re-enacted, and that new sections be
| added to said Article, to be designated as
Sections 50, 81, 55, So, 81, So, 50 and 60, so as
| to read as follows;
Al. That every license to practice medicine
and surgery, issued pursuant to the pro-
visions OF tins Act shall be subscribed by the
president and secretary of the board before
whom the applicant has passed. 1t shall
also have affixed to it by the person authorized
to afflx the same the seal OF said medical and
chirurgical faculty or Maryland, or OF the
Maryland State Homeopathic Medical Society,
as the license may require, every such license
to be in the following form, and to the follow
ing effect;
TO Az WON IL Nay Concern, erecting.
BE it known, that , on the
day Of "A D., having offered
us satisfactory proof that was more
that twenty-one years OF age, and had re-
ceiyed Il proper preliminary education, We
therefore give written order for the exaIni-
nation of said before one OF the
board OF medical examiners Of the State OF
Maryland, that the said was fully
examined before our said board and found
proficient and qualified to practice medicine
and surgery, we, therefore, have granted to
said this, our license to practice medicine
md IN o MARYLAND q "A
physician and surgeon, and have caused the
names president and secretary OF our board to
be subscribed and the seal of our society 10 be
affixed thereto.
witness our hands and the seal of our said
society, this day OF A. u.
President.
Secretary.
IsEAL OF SOCIETY,"
So. From and after the first day Of July,
1894, no person shall practice medicine or
surgery In the State OF Maryland, unless hc or
she shall be duly registered n physician or
surgeon, in accordance with the provisions OF
this Act.
81. Every person who WINS practicing
medicine in the State Of Maryland, on or
before the first day Of June, 1892, shall be
entitled TO be registered as physician or sur
geon, or both, upon application to the clerk of
the Circuit Court OF tho county in which he
or she may reside or to the Clerk Of the Cir
Court of Baltimore City, IL the
dppilchhL Sfhll TeSlue III l)ditllnofe Ilty, '+nl
such application shall be in writing, signed
by the applicant, who shall state, under oath,
that he or she was In fact practitioner of
medicine or surgery in the State OF Mary
land, on or before the first day Of June, 1892,
and thereupon it shall be the duty Of said
clerk to register such application and tho
name Of such applicant as physician or
surgeon, or both, in a book to be kept for such
purpose, and n certified copy of such entry Of
registration, under the seal of the Court,
shall be legal evidence OF such registration in
all the courts Of the State.
90. All persons who have commenced 10
practice medicine or surgery, in the State of i
Maryland, since the first day OF June, 1899, or
who shall hereafter commence to practice /
medicine or surgery in this State shall moth I
entitled to be registered in the Registry of !
Physicians and Surgeons, rs required by law !
except upon filing with the clerk of the Cir
cult Court, Of the county or city, in which he |
or she shall reside, u license from one of the
duly constituted Boards of Medical Examiners
of this State, in accordance with the terms of
Sections AZ and 4S Of this article, except that
physicians and surgeons who have como into
this State since said first day of June, 1892. or
who shall herelgter come into this State TO
follow the practice oil medicine and surgery,
may receive license, which shall entitle them
to be registered rs physicians and surgeons,
in accordance with law, upon application to
one OF the duly constituted Boards Of Medical
Examiners in accordance with the provisions
OF section 56 oil tins act
So. Physicians md surgeons of good moral
and professional standing, who havo come
into this State, with intent to follow the prac-
tice OF medicine and surgery within this
State, since the first day of June, 1899, or who
shall hereafter come into this State, being
graduates OF n medical college or university,
of good standing and who have been practi-
TONERS of medicine or surgery for more than
ten years prior to the date of the
application may make application TO
the president OF one of the boards Of medical
examiners OF this State which application
shall DO under oath and shall state whore
aid how long said applicant has been en-
gagged in the practice OF medicine and sur
gerry, and from what medical college, univer-
sity or other institution OF learning no or She
has graduated; aud thereupon the said board
of medical examiners shall have the authority
and discretion 10 require said applicant to
undergo an examination, In accordance with
the provisions of Sections IL TO Il inclusive OF
this article, or may require said Applicant to
submit to a special examination, the terms
and methods of which shall be prescribed by
the said board of medical examiners; and
upon paying the fee for examination, as set
out in Section As of this article after the ex-
animation and determination of said board
thereupon, that said applicant is qualified TO
practice medicine and surgery, and that he is
entitled to a license, a license shall be issued
to him to the same effect as the form Of IL
cense set out in section AZ of this article;
which license shall then be filed and recorded |
as provided by section AZ Of this article and
it shall then be the duty of the clerk OF tho
court to register the name OF the person so /
licensed as physician or surgeon, or both, in
accordance with the provisions OF this Act
81. All persons whose licenses have been /
heretofore filed and recorded. in accordance
with section ~ Of this article shall be held to
be duly registered physicians and surgeons
within the provisions Of section So of this mr.
ticle and all personswho shall hereafter receive |
and file licenses to be recorded in accordance !
with said section AZ, shall be registered us |
physicians and surgeons under said section,
and the fee to be paid for such registration |
and for the registration'of the application to
the clerk, or the license Herewith as the case
may require, shall be- one dollar.
IS. II any person shall unlawfully obtain |
and procure himself to be registered as
physician or surgeon, either by false and I'M
true statement contained in his application 10 !
the clerk OF this court as required by this ar
ttcle, or by presenting to said clerk false or |
untrue license or one fraudulently obtained |
by false and fraudulent statements made to
one OF said boards OF medical examiners, he /
or she shall be deemed guilty OF u misdemeap
and shall be flned not less than fifty dollars
or more than live hundred dollars, and shalt
forfeit all rights and immunities obtained or
conferred upon him by virtue OF such regis
tration, as physician or surgeon.
50. Any person who after the first day of /
July, 1894 shall practice OF attempt to prac-
tiec medicine or surgery in this state without
being registered in accordance with the pro-
visions of this Act, shall be guilty OF n mis-
deneanor and shall be llned not less than ten
dollarssnor more than two hundred dollars I, r
Zach offense.
90. The provisions of this act shall not APP
ply TO any midwife or person who may rend
gratuitious services in case Of emergency.
SIC. 2. Aud be Il enacted, That this Act
shall take effect from the date of its passage.
Approved April G, 1891.
FRANK BROWN, Governor.
JOHN WALTER SMITH,
President of the Senate.
JAMES II. PRESTON,
Speaker OF the House Of Delegates.