The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1894-05-04
PUBLIC GENERAL Ii VS..
J. ROGER McSHERRY,
Secretary of the Senate.
B. L. SMITH.
Chief Clerk of the House of Delegates

B. L. SMITH
Chief Clerk of the House of Delegates
CHAPTER pit.
AN ACT TO REPEAL AND RE-ENACT
| SECTION FORTY SEVEN OF ARTICLE
FORTY THREE OF THE CODE OF PUBLIC
GENERAL LAWS, ENTITLED" HEALTH, L"
SUBTITLE PRACTITIONERS OF MED
SECTIONS THERETO, TO BE DESIG-
MATED AS SECTIONS SO, "a, 55, Sc, 81,
So. 50 and 60 OF SAID ARTICLE:
SECTION l. BE- it enacted by the General
Assembly, of Maryland. That Section At of
Article 43 OF the Code of Public General Laws
title Health" subtitle practitioners 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Medicine" be and the same is hereby repealed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 3d. 81, 50, 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 this 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 affix the same the seal of said medical and
chiruryical 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 Al W.om it May Concern, Greeting:
BE 1t known. that On Inc
dav of A. D., having offered
us satisfactory proof that was more
that twenty-one years Of age. and had re-
ceived proper preliminary education, we
therefore give written order Tor the eXalnl-
nation of said before one of the
board of medical examiners OF the state OF
Maryland, that the said was July
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
and surgery in the State of Maryland as
physician and surgeon, and have caused the
names president and secretary of our board to
be subscribed and the seal OF our society to be
affixed thereto.
Witness our hands and the seal of our said
society this day of A. d.
President.
Secretary.
SEAL 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 he or
she shall be duly registered as physician or
surgeon, i'll accordance with the provisions OF
this Act
81 Every person who was 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 the county in which he
or she may reside or to the Clerk OF the Or
Court of Baltimore City, if the
applicant shall reside in Baltimore City, and
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, 1882,
and thereupon it shall be the duty of said
clerk to register such application and the
name of such applicant, as physician or
surgeon, or both, in a book to DO kept for such
purpose, and certified copy of such entry OF
registration, under the seal of the Court,
shall be legal evidence of such registration lii
all the courts OF the State.
55. All persons Who have commenced to
practice medicine or surgery, in the State OF
Maryland. since the first day of June, 1892, or
who shall hereafter commence to practice
medicine or surgery in this State shall not be
entitled to be registered in the Registry of
Physicians and Surgeons, as 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. a license from one of the
duly constituted Boards of Medical Examiners
of this State, in accordance with the terms of
Sections Al and IS of this article, except that
physicians and surgeons who have come into
this State since said first day of June, 1892. or
who shall hereafter come into this State to
follow the practice of medicine and surgery.
may receive license. which shall entitlc them
TO be registered as physicians and surgeons,
il accordance with law. upon application to
one of the duly constituted Boards of Medical
EXAMINERS. in accordance with the provisions
of Section Sc of this act.
81. Physicians and surgeons of good moral
and professional standing, who have come
into this State. with intent to follow the prac-
tee OF medicine and surgery within this
State. since the first day of June. 1892, or who
shall hereafter come into this State. being
graduates of 4 medical college university.
of good standing, and who have been practl-
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 be under oath. and shall state where
and how long said applicant has been Ell
gagged in the practice of medicine and sur
gerry. and from what medical college, univer-
sty or other institution of learning. he or she
has graduated: and thereupon the said board
of medical examiners shall have the authority
and discretion TO require said applicant TO
undergo examination. in accordance with
the provisions Of Sections Al to ~ inclusive of
this article. or may require said applicant 10
submit to special examination. the terms
and methods of which shall be prescribed by
the said board of medical examiners: and
upon paving the fee for examination, as get
out in Section As OF this article after the ex-
animation and determination of said board
thereupon. that said applicant is qualified to
practice HeuIclQC anu surgery. anu tllal -
entitled to license. a license shall be issued
to him to the same effect DIS the form of Ii
cense set out in section A of this article;
which license shall then be filed and recorded
as provided by section II of this article and
it shall then be the duty of the clerk of the
court to register the name of the person so
licensed as physician or surgeon. or both, III
accordance with the provisions OF this Act.
81. All persons whose licenses have been
heretofore filed and recorded. in accordance
with section IS of this article shall be held to
be daily registered physicians and surgeons
within the provisions Of section 53 OF this ar
ticle and all personswho shall hereafter receive
and file licenses to be recorded in accordance
with said section As. shall be registered as
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 ease
may require shall be one dollar.
So 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 to
the clerk of this court. required by this ar
ticle. or 10y presenting to said clerk IA false or
untrue license. 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 Il misdcmean'
and shall be fined not less than fifty dollars
or more than five hundred dollars. and shall
conferred upon him by virtue of such regis
tration. as physician or surgeon
SO. Any person who after the first day Of
July. 1894. shall practice or attempt to prac-
tice medicine or surgery in this State without
being registered in accordance with the pro-
visions of this Act. shall be guilty of a mis-
lemeanor and shall be fined not less than ten
dolarsnor more than two hundred dollars Il r
s,ch offense
so. The provisions OF this act shall not ap-
ply to any midwife or person who may rend
gratuitious services in ease of emergency.
SEC. 2. and be il enacted. That this Act
shall take effect from the date Of its passage.
Approved April 6, 1894
FRANK BROWN, Governor.
JOHN WALTER SMITH,
President of the Senate.
JAMES II. PRESTON,
Speaker of the House Of Delegates.
We hereby certify that the aforegoing Is
correct copy of an Act of the General As
samhiy of Maryland. passed January Session,