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BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1905-09-19
Board Of Medical Examiners
Of PORTO RICO
E1dmenes para M6dicos, Practicantes
y ComGdronGs Ell primer mdrtes
de Octatbre de 1905.

Los Medicos aspirantes a 1icencias
para poder pract icar la medicifa y la
cirujia en- Puerto Rico deberan cum
plir los requisites siguientes:
10 Presentar en- la Secretarfa de
este Board .el tftulo que los acredite
como Medico Cru janos.
20 Una so1icitud jurada ante Ell
Juez Il otra autoridad judicial, acredi.
tando ser Ell mismo que firma la So
1icitud
80 Pagar TN derecho de SIS 90 en-
Tesorerfa.
40 Pasar un examen de todas las
asignaturas que comprende la profe-
sion medica aute la Junta examinado-
ra. Dicho examen tendra 1ugar e1
primer martes de Octubre proxino
en- las O6cinaS del Board of Medical
Examiners.
50 Medicos que adernis del titti-
10 que en- tai sent lido les acredite, po-
sean Tin State 6oord presentaran igual
so1icitud y haran evidencia de estos
documentos (tftu1o y 1icencia) ante ell
Secretario que suscribe, en- los 20 dfas
que subsigan 4 Ia publication de este
anuncio. Deberan pagar un derecho
de $25 90 en- la Tesoreria respectiva,
entendiendose que, pasada esta con-
vocatoria. sera considerable como prac-
tica Illegal la de los Medicos que no
quiiesen cumplido con estos requi-
hSOS.
Los aspirantes Practicantes y Co.
madronas presentaran solicitudes tam
bien juradas y abonaran un derecho
de $1,000 los primeros y de $500 las
:segundas, por derechos de examen y
1icencia.
Dchos aspirantes presentaran Ger
ti6caciones que acrediten haber reci-
bido practica de Ciruj1a Menor y de
Obstretricia en- Hospitales 6 al servi-
clio medico particular.
Las solicitudes en- blanco podran
pedirse a esta Secretarfa, 10 mis1no
que cualquiera explicacion que fuese
necesaria, relacionada con dichos exa-
meneS.
Estos tendran lugar Ell dia 3 de Oc-
tubre de 1905.
DR.. NJ. Quevedo Bdes,
Secrct0rio.
San Francisco 70 Apartado 712,
San Juan. d.
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this Legislature were its common
sense and its fine capacity for trans
acting business. The settlement Of the
vexed bond question: on a basis credit
able to the State and acceptable to the
bondholders is a fair index of the
quality and temper of the General AS
Sembly. And the sentiment also shows
that the members were not unmindful
of the party platform and pledges. NO
fairer minded body ever met in this
State. Not a person, nor an interest
was denied a hearing. Discussions be-
fore the committees and on the floors
of the two chambers have been full,
free and ample for the thorough un-
derstanding of all matters presented.
There has been no cloture, nor caucus
dictation, nor partisan whip. Not
single measure was passed upon by the
Democratic caucus.
There has never assembled in Raj
eigh a Legislature more fully repre-
sentative of our cardinal Tar Heel
virtues: horse sense, conservatism, in
tegrity, personal independence and
justice. No vicious legislation was
passed. none was proposed. / believe
that the conservative people of the
State will approve the work of the
session. Nothing was done to cause
alarm, and / am sure you will hear
less criticism of the Legislature of 1905
than we have heard of many Of it's
predecessors
FRANCIS d. WINSTON,
Lieutenant Governor.
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Review of the Work of
the Recent Session.
EFFICIENT OFFICIALS
The Legislation Means Much For the
Material, Educational and Moral
Progress of the Common
wealth of North Caro-
lima.
Bv SPEAKER GUION.

The work of the Legislature of 1908
has been executed and performed with
diligence, care and expedition. unex-
celled by that of any previous Legisia-
ture within the history of the State.
In addition to the patient and un-
firing attention given to every measure
submitted for it's consideration by the
individual members of the body, the
careful and untiring attention to the
various duties encumbent upon them,
devoted by the principal and assistant
clerks in the Clerical Department OF
the body, has played q most impor-
tant part in reaching this result.
Mr. Frank D. Hackett, as Principal
Clerk, aided by Mr.. Alex Lassiter, as
Assistant, could be observed daily and
nightly at their respective posts with
out relief, upon the opening to the
close of the session, while the voice
of it's Reading Clerk, Mr.. Il. B. Aren-
DALI never faltered in the perform
ance of the arduods task imposed
upon him.
The Engrossing Clerks office, pre-
sided over by ex-Representatiye M. ID.
Kinsland, with his able corps of assist
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less than two policemen; and it shall
be the duty of some member of said
police force to visit each place where
liquor is sold or manufactured in said
city or town at least once. every week
and make a careful and thorough in
Spection and examination thereof,
with a view of ascertaining whether
the laws regulating the manufacture
and sale of liquor are observed and
obeyed, and whether the said business
is conducted in an orderly and lawful
manner, and to make a written report
setting forth the result of said Visita-
tion to the mayor and board of alder
men, or other governing authorities, or
said city or town, which report or
several reports, the said mayor shall
deliver to the solicitor of the district
on or before the assembling of the
ensuing term of the Superior Court of
the county in which said town or city
is situated: and in case such town or
city shall fail to maintain a city gov
ernment or provide the police force,
Investigations and report herein pre-
scribed, the board of commissioners
of the county in which the same is
situated may revoke and cancel the
license and permission authorizing the
sale and manufacture of liquor in SAID
town or city,
Section s. That said chapter 233 OF
the Public Laws of 1903 be further
amended by adding thereto another
section, after the preceding section, to
be numbered section twenty-one, as
follows: THAT the possession of, or
issuance to any person, firm or COR
poration of a license to manufacture.
rectify or sell, at wholesale or retail,
spirituous or malt liquors by the
United States government or any Of
ficer thereof, in any county, city or
town where the manufacture. sale or
rectifcation of spirituous or malt Il
quors is forbidden by the laws of this
State, shall be prima facie evidence
that the person, firm or corporation
having such license, or to whom the
same was issued, is guilty Of doing the
act permitted by the said license, in
violation of the laws of this State.
Sec. 6. That chapter 233 of the
Public Laws of 1903 be further amend
cd by changing the figures 80" in line
i, section 20 thereof, to the figures
'23"
Sec. Z. That all laws and clauses OF
/ laws in conflict with this act are here
/ by repealed Provided, that nothing
/ in this act shall be construed to re-
peal, alter or amend any of the provi-
sions Of chapter 233, Public Laws 1903,
known as the Watts Bill, relative to
Continued on Page Three.l
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EDITORS

The General Assembly passed q
resolution inviting the National Edi-
toriaI Association to hold its next
meeting in Asheville, this State, and
it was adopted unanimously The full
text of the resolution is as follows:
whereas: The National Editorial
Association is an organization com
posed of more than seven thousand
newspaper editors. from all sections
of the United States. and, whereas, the
North Carolina Editorial Association
has heretofore invited and intends
again to invite the National Editorial
Association to hold its annual conven-
ton for the year 1906 within the State
of North Carolina, and,
whereas, The holding OF such cOn-
yention within the State OF North
Carolina will be Of great material
benefit to the State, therefore, be II
Resolved by the Senate, the House
Of Representative concurring:
Section /. That the said National
Editorial Association be, and is here
by cordially and urgently invited to
holds it's annual convention for the
year 1906 in the city Of Ashevills, in
this State
section 2 That the Secretary Of
State be, and he is hereby directed to
transmit a certified copy Of this reso-
luton to the President Of fhe said
National Editorial Association"
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1t Was a Body Of Sue
CessfuI Business Men.
1T is A GOOD AUGURY
When Manufacturers, Bankers and
Other Business Men Will Repre-
sent Their Counties in
the General Assem-
IL,

BY 1T. GOVERNOR f. d. WINSTON
The General Assembly of 1905 wit
messed the appearance of a new force
in our legislation. For many years
gentlemen of large affairs have not
been willing to represent their fellow
citizens in the General Assembly. They
have given business exactions as their
excuse for not doing so. The personnel
Of this General Assembly was strength
ened by a score or more of bankers
and business men, representing every
form of industry. That they have ta-
ken a different view of their duty
augers well for the State. Nearly every
calling and profession was represented
in the body over which / had the
honor to preside.
The Senate of 1905 was a business
body. This is seen in the ease with
which old rules and methods We're dis
placed, and modern business methods
introduced, resulting in dispatch of
business and a reduction of expenses.
The distinguishing characteristics Of
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TEMPERANCE LEGISLATION
OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY Y
The Laws Enacted Were Reasonable and Conserva-
tive, to the Advancement of the Cause of
Temperance.
Temperance.
By FRANK r.. McNENCH.

In response to an invitation from
the editor of The News and Observer,
I will briefly review the temperance
legislation of the session of 1906 of
the General Assembly. 1t will only be
possible, in an article of this charac-
ter to remark upon the more import
ant general measures enacted or de-
feated, dismissing the local bills with
statement of the general policy in
regard to such.
When a blrd's-eye-view is taken of
the work of the Legislature it is very
gratifying to those of US who endeav
ored to shape temperance legislation
along conservative, yet progressive,
lines. For, in my Judgment, no ex-
treme or drastic temperance act was
passed, and this will, / believe, be
the sober Judgment of the people of
North Carolina when they have accur-
ately understood what was done, and
observed the effects in practical OPP
Grafton. Not only viii the people ap-
prove what was done, but they will
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ants. was so skillfully and diligently
conducted that all obstacles to the
rapid engrossment of the various bills
were removed and transmitted to the
Senate with correctness and diSpatch.
The skilled and experienced En-
rolling Clerk, Mr.. Norville, presented
to the presiding officers of both houses
all measures adopted by them so rapid
ly following their adoption as to make
possible the full performance OF the
duties of the lawmakers within the
shortest possible time consistent with
care.
And it becomes but rair to the cleri-
cal force of the House of Represen-
tatives to give to them full credit for
the able and diligent manner in which
the duties devolving upon them were
discharged.
The personnel of the House of Rep
resentatives of 1905 was peculiar TO
itself: It's membership consisted OF
the truly representative men from each
county in the State, and while many
of it's members We're youthful poth
in age and appearance, yet the young
er members of the body were as fully
in touch with every measure as older,
and more experienced representatives
and to the credit of the younger mem
bers of the House, be it said, that their
youth alone was evidenced through
their appearance only, as no measure
of public Importance or of interest to
their local constituents ever escaped
their active and vigilant attention,
scrutiny and discussion.
The older members of this body (for
there were no old men in it) added
the needed thought and conservatism
of age and experience which alone
was required to give to this body that
force and diversity of mind and
.al@
lied it in it's entirety.
lin the absence of memoranda be-
fore me, L cannot undertake resume
of the work Of each committee, and in
enumerating such committee work as
now presents itself to me without
memoranda to refresh my memory, /
do not intend to create the impress
sion that every committee has not
faithfully, and with true regard to
the duties before it discharged with
ability and dispatch, the trust imposed
upon it.
But principally in my mind at pres
ent is the work of the Committee on
Agriculture. SO ably presided over by
Major Graham, of Lincoln. himself
the pioneer of agriculturists. The Com
mittee on Appropriations whose work
was so ably, impartially and faithfully
performed, under the magnificent di-
rection of its chairman, Mr.. Wescott
Robertson. of Guilford, as to merit
from the House a unanimous adoption
of its report without discussion or op-
position. The work of the Committee
on Banks and Currency, under the
able direction of Mr. Woodard, ot
Wilson, disclosed to the House. the
care and attention paid to that most
important branch of our State enter
prises, which it's painstaking and ex-
perienced membership felt necessary
to devote to so important a subject.
The chairman of this committee
found time likewise to devote his skill
and ability to that important measure
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tion. Yet other towns were clamoring
for riddance of the stills, but we dis
couraged the Introduction of bills, for
we had then realized the necessity of
some general act, for two reasons.
First, to save the Legislature the time
which would be consumed in the con-
sideration of so many special acts, and,
second, we recognized that running
the stills out of one village and leav-
ing them the right to settle IN another
of like size was only dallying with the
problem and offered no pronounced
solution. So this feature of the Ward
bill, limiting the manufacture of whis-
key to towns. of one thousand popula-
ton and over was agreed upon to
remedy the evil of distillery domina-
ton by distillery concentration. The
theory of this provision is that it Will
be practically Impossible for enough
stills to be established in a town of
one thousand inhabitants, so that the
owners and employees win consti-
tute a majority of the voters Hence,
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the citizens will be free to provide
adequate police protection"
Another important provision of this
act requires, in every town where
whiskey is manufactured or sold, that
a municipal government shall be main
tanned in accordance with the provi-
sions of the town charter, and that at
least two regular policemen shall be
employed whose duty it shall be to
visit at least once a week each place
where whiskey is made or sold, and
make a written report to the mayor or
board of aldermen after each visit.
These reports are to be transmitted
by the mayor to the solicitor of the
district at or before each succeeding
term of Superior Court. BY this pro-
vision it is believed adequate police
small towns where whiskey is permit
ted to be sold.
The onlv other provision of this act
is that the possession of United
States license to sell, manufacture, or
rectify whiSkey in prohibition territory
shall be prina facie evidence that the
party holding such license is guilty of
doing the act permitted by the license
in violation OF the State law.
This act, ,AWhile giving relief to many
other communities, also drives the dis
tilleries out of Advance. Williams and
Shore-"and thereby hangs a tale" of
bitter, hard, powerful struggle for
the defeat of the bill and the perpetual
ton of special privileges. But the
good old democratic doctrine of ''equal
rights to all, and special privileges to
none" was gloriously triumphant.
Anti-Jug Laws-Old and New.
An important bill claiming our at
tention was one to repeal the anti-jug
law, except as to the four counties
for which it was intended, and which
by judicial construction had been
made to apply to the entire state. AT
the very outset L advocated the repeal
of this accidental law upon the
grounds that the temperance forces
could not afford to hold any adyant-
age gained by any accidental or ques-
tionable means; that we ought to take
high ground and renounce even a
benefit which came to us in an unfair,
though unintentionally unfair, manner:
in a word that we could not afford to
further a moral cause by means that
were not direct, open, manly, and
strictly moral The temperance forces,
almost to q man, voted to repeal this
accidental law, and, remembering
they were in the majority and could
easily have continued this act in op-
GRAFTON had they so desired, it showed
and will be remembered by the peo-
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unanimous vote, making it unlawful
for any one to sell or give away, ex-
cept in cases of emergency, either CO.
caine, opium or morphine except upon
the written prescription of a reputable
physician, dentist or veterinary sur
geon, which prescription shall not be
refilled except upon the direction of
the physician issuing it, and no veter-
mary surgeon shall prescribe for any
human being. 1t is hoped and be-
lieved that this act will have a very
salutary effect in the correction of
the Incorporate use which has here
tofore been made of these drugs.
There were, of course, many local
bills before the Legislature for con-
sideration, and while some were pass
ed, even more were defeated. Our
policy was to pass few local bills as
possible, deeming it wiser to allow
each locality to work it's own reform.
When we did pass local bills we en-
deavored always to live up to the fol-
lowing policies: I'D conform to the
Democratic platform and the Watts
act; (2), allow each locality to vote
upon the question involved, unless a
very decided majority of the voters by
petition indicated their preference; (3),
allow the Representatives of each
county to control legislation for his
county of purely local nature when
the same was not in violation of any
general statute.
Looking back over our sixty days
work, l am not only greatly pleased
at what was accomplished, but / am
also delighted that the retrospect does
not disclose any bitterness or ranking
as result of the man,- hard, sharp
contests Waged.
Those We're battles between manly
men, and not one, so far as I know,
ever stopped TO conquer"
FRANK r. McNINCH.
Charlotte, N. c., March is, 1906.
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section be further amended by adding
after the words special statute in
line seven of said section the follow
ing: "It shall be unlawful for any
person or persons, firm or corporation
to manufacture or rectify for gain
any spirituous, vinous or malt liquors
or Intoxicating bitters within the State
of North Carolina, except in incor-
porated cities and towns having not
less than one thousand population,
wherein the manufacture of liquor is
not, or may not hereafter, be prohibits
ed by law or regulated by special
statute"
Sec. 2. That section of chapter
233 of the Public Laws of 1908 be
amended by inserting after the word
manufacture" in line two thereof the
words cor rectiffcation.
Sec. 8. That section 19 of said
chapter be amended by striking out
the words manufacture and" in lines
two and three thereof and inserting
at the end thereof the following: "That
nothing in this act shall be construed
to repeal, alter or amend any special
act prohibiting or regulating the
manufacture of liquors in any incor-
porated city or town having not less
than one thousand population
Sec. 4. That chapter 233 of the
Public Laws of 1903 be further amend
ed by adding after section 19 the fol-
lowing, numbered as section twenty:
'"That every incorporated city or town
in which spirituous, vinous or malt IL
quors or intoxicating bitters are per-
mitted to be sold or manufactured un-
der the provisions of this act shah
maintain a town or city government,
as provided in it's charter of inco1 :
poration. and a police force Of not
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also commend the Legislature for
what it refused to do, as considerable
extreme legislation was proposed
which was defeated either in commit
tee or on the floor of the House or
Senate. While we did more than some
good Democrats thought we ought,
and less than some temperance adj
vocates desired still, / believe the re-
suit will be acquiesced in by the form
er as being reasonable and conserva-
tive, and accepted by the latter as a
substantial advancement of the cause
of temperance. So that, the Demo-
cratic party may again claim the re-
newed allegiance of all sincere advo-
Gates of real, permanent temperance
reform; nor has it been guilty of
'fanaticism" or wildcat legislation, =
SO as to frighten or ALLEVIATE those who
do not agree with the majority.
The Ward Bill.
Of all the temperance measures con-
sidered by the Legislature, the Ward
bill excited most general interest. In
fact, the hard fight made against the
bill was in my opinion out of all pro-
p0rtion to the terms of the measure.
IforS3t is in no sense a revolutionary
sactx Neither can I see wherein it vio-
lates either the spirit or the letter of
the Democratic platform or the Watts
act. On the contrary, in the light of
our two years experience, since the
passage of the Watts act, some such
legislation as the Ward bill seemed
absolutely necessary to keep faith with
the people, to whom the Democratic
party had declared in its platform
that whiskey should not be sold or
manufactured except under adequate
police protection and that a Demo-
cratic Legislature could be trusted to
make such amendments as experience
ana wisdom suggested. The situation,
In brief, was this: 1t was a Demo-
cratic Legislature; we were elected by
the people upon the Democratic plat
form; the numerous small towns that
sought relief at our hands demonstrate
ed that experience had proved that
adequate police protection could not
be had in very small towns. for the
reason that the distillers would
bunch their stills in these little vii
lagos and thereby control and donai-
nate the municipal affairs-the own
ers and employees of the still constitut-
ing practically majority of the
voters. Confronted by such a situa-
ton, what was our duty to the people
who elected us? What was the solu-
tion of the problem? Early in the
session we gave relief to Hamlet and
Hoffman by special acts, and a bill to
relieve Advance was under considera-
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THE WARD BILL.

A Bill to be Entitled an Act to Amend
Chapter 233 of the Public Laws of
1903, Regulating the Manufacture
and Sale of Liquors in North Caro-
lima.