Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1894-05-17
CHAPTER 273.

An act to regulate the practice OF veterinary
medicine and surgery in the State OF
Maryland.
SECTION /. Be ii enacted By the General
As,sm6ly Of Maryland, That a commission
Is hereby established To be known under
the name and style of "The State Veteri-
nary Medical Board" to consist of five
commissioners who shall BE members in
good standing of some School OF Veterinary
Medicine. who shall be appointed by the
Governor every four years, and who shall
hold their Office until their successors are
duly appointed and qualified with power
in and to said Board 10 adopt By Laws and
Regulations, such as they may deem advis-
able to carry into effect the provisions of
this Act. provided the said Bylaws shall
not conflict with the Constitution or laws
of this State or of the United States.
Sec, Q. II shall be unlawful for any
person or persons TO practice veterinary
medicine and surgery in the State of Mary
land without having previously obtained a
diploma from a college duly authorized to
grant such students of Veterinary Medicine
and Surgery or 10 those who have passed
satisfactory examinations before the State
Veterinary Medical Board, or as herein
provided for
SEC, 3. TIE said State Veterinary Med.
ical Board shall hold their meetings at such
times and places rs they may deem best,
which times and places shall be set out
fully and regularly in their by laws.
SEC, A. The said State Veterinary Medical
Board shall examine all diplomas as to
their genuineness, and each applicant not
holding diploma shall submit theoreti-
cal and practical examination before the
State Veterinary Medical Board, said ex-
animation tn be written, oral, or both,
which examination, if passed to the salts
faction of the said Board, shall entitle the
applicant to practice Veterinary Medicine
and Surgery, subject to provisions and
regulations Of this Act and regulations of
the said Board.
SEC, IS. All examinations of persons not
graduates shall be made directly by the
State Veterinary Medical Board, and the
certificates given by the said Board shall
authorize the possessors TO practice Veter-
mary Medicine and Surgery in the State of
| Maryland. All examinations of un grad
uated practitioners must take place before
the thirty-first day of December, eighteen
hundred and ninety-four. After that date
no certificate shall be granted except 10
persons presenting diplomas from legally
chartered colleges.
SEC g. Any persoa shall he regarded as
practicing Veterinary Medicine and Sur.
gerry, within the meaning of this Act, who
| shall have received license as mentioned
in Section 4. But nothing in this Act shall
be construed TO prohibit members of the
medical profession from prescribing for
domestic animals in case Of emergency and
collecting fee therefor; nor "a prohibit
gratuitous services In an emergency, nor 70
prevent any person from practicing Veter.
mary Medicine and Surgery on any ami
NAL belonging to himself or herself And
this Act shall not apply TO Commissioned
Veterinary Surgeons in the United States
Army.
SEC, 2. And be it enacted, That it shall
be the duty Of such Board to keep a regis
ter of all practitioners qualified under this
Act practicing Veterinary Medicine and
Surgery or any branches thereof in thi:
State, and to cause the same TO be published
at least once year in two newspaper.
published in the City Of Baltimore
Section 8. And be 1t enacted, That the
said Board shall within six months from
the date hereof, prepare said register, in
which the names of all graduate practition
ers in the State at the time and in actual
practice shall on application 10 the said
Board, be inserted without examination
and shall also on application insert til,
, names of such persons who are practition-
ers In actual practice without diploma Of
! certificate or qualification from q recngniZ-
ed school, who hare been in practice fo
. five years aud upwards, prior 10 the pass
, sing of this act, upon proof % the sale
Board that they have been so practicing
That all persons prscticing at this time ant
, not having been so practicing for five year
: antecedent TO this Act, shall undergo al
y 4 hafsK he
4 practice. the persons so examined an,
1 approved shall be entitled 10 registration
: Section Q. And be il enacted, That tn
: said Board shall have power TO reject an,