The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1894-05-12
CHAPTER 2I7.

An Act to repeal and re enact Section For
ty.seven of Article Forly-three of the Code
of Public General Laws, entitled "Health,
sub title practitioners of Medicine, and
to add additional Sections thereto, to be
designated AS Sections SO, 81, 55, 56. 81,
So, 50 and 80 of said Article;
SECTION /. Be it enaeted By the General
assembly of Maryland, That Section AZ OF
Article AZ of the Code of Public General Laws
title Health" sub title 'Practitioners of
Medicine be and the same is hereby repealed
and re enacted, and that new sections be add
ed to said Article. to be designated as Sec
tions SO. 54. so. Sc, 81. 5S, SO and 60, so as
to read as follows:
AZ. That every license to practice medi-
cine 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
chirurgical faculty of 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 All Whom it May Concern, Greeting
Be it known, that on the
day OF I, A. d., having offered
us satisfactory proof that was more
that twenty one years of age, and had re.
ceived a proper preliminary education, We
therefore give a written order for the exami-
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
and surgery in the Stale of Maryland as a
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.
90. 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, in accordance with the provisions of
this Act.
81. Every person who was practcing med
iciue in the State of Maryland, on or before
the first day of June, 1892, shall be entitled
to be registered as physician or surgeon, or
both, upon application To the clerk of the
Circuit Court of the county in which he or
she may reside or 10 the Clerk of the Circuit
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 a practitioner Of medicine or sur
gerry. in the State Of Maryland. on or before
the first day of June, 1892, 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 u book to
be 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 in all the courts of the State.
90. 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, license from one of the
duly constituted Boards Of Medical Exam-
ners of this State, in accordance with the
terms of Sections Al and 48 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 medi
cine and surgery, may receive license,
which shall entitle them to be registered as
physicians and surgeons, in accordance with
law, upon application to one Of the duly con
stituted Boards of Medical Examiners, in &C
cordance with the provisions Of Section 56 of
this Act.
SO. Physicians and surgeons of good moral
and professional standing, who have come
into this State, with intent 20 follow the prac
tice 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 u medical college or university,
Of good standing, and who have been pract
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 ap
piicant has been engaged in The practice of