Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise., 1938-09-16
1898
1898
PROCLAMATION OF THE Gov
ERNOR OF MARYLAND
STATEWIDE REFERENDUMS

ERNOR OF MARYLAND
STATEWIDE REFERENDUMS
WHEREAS, at the January 1887
session of the General Assembly
Of Maryland, an Act was passed
known as Chapter 81, fixing the
time within which marriage license
may be issued; and
WHEREAS, at the January 1887
session of the General Assembly
Of Maryland, an Act was passed
known as Chapter 306, for the pur-
pose Of licensing dentists which
licenses shall be issued to individual
dentists; providing for a State
Board of Dental Examiners, its or
ganization and duties; providing
for the giving of examinations and
licenses by saide Board; providing
for the issuance of new licenses in
place Of those that are lost or de-
stroyed; providing for fees upon
taking of examinations; providing
for the revocation and suspension
Of licenses; prohibiting advertising
by dentists; providing appeals from
the ruling of the Board; defining
dentistry; creating certain excep-
tions to the Act; providing for
penalties, and providing other mat
ters incidental to the general pur-
pose of the Act; in words and fig
ures as follows:
CHAPTER 81
AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with
amendments Section 8 Of Article 62
OF the Annotated Code Of Maryland
l1924 Editon). title Marriages, to
Ak the time within which marriage
license may be issued.
Section 1. Be 1t enated by the Gen
eral Assembly of Maryland, That See
ton of Article 02 Of the Annotated
Code of Maryland (1924 Edition., title
Marriages, be and 1t is hereby re-
pealed and re-enacted with amendments
to read as follows: a.
8. Before the Clerk o. any of the
Courts aforesaid shall issue any license
he shall examine one OF the contracting
parties to the marriage, under oaeh.
who shall appear personally before
the Clerk and make application for the
same, and the Clerk shall ascertain:
first, the full name of the parties; sec
ond, their place of residence; third,
whethcrG married or single; sixth,
whether related or not, If so, in which
degree of relationship; seventh, If ever
divorced; which facts upon the pay
cation fee shall be set out in printed
form to be signed by the person MAX
ing the application, and no such license
to marry shall be delivered by the
Forty eight (4Sl hours from the time
application is made therefor; provided,
however, that any judge of the Circuit
Court of the county III which the appH-
cation is made or, if made In Baltimore
City, any judge of the Court OF Com
mon Pleas, for good and sufficient cause
shown, may, by an order In writing
signed by him, authorize the Clerk TO
deliver such license at any time after
the application therefor. 1t shall be
unlawful for the clerks of any of the
courts aforesaid to make public the
fact of an application for q marriage
license until such license shall have
been issued.
Sec. 2. And be, It further. enacted,
That this Act shall take effect June l,
Approved: March 90, 1887.
CHAPTER 800
AN ACT to repeal Sections to IS, In
elusive, of Article 80 Of the Code of
Public General Laws of Maryland,
1895 Supplement, Flack's Edition, title
"Dentistry', and to re-enact in place
and in lieu thereof twenty-three new
sections to be known as Sections l, 2,
2 10, g. : Q; 19; B. 19a' II, 52' 52' is. Is.
the purpose Of licensing dentists,
which licenses shall be issued to indi-
vidual dentists; providing for State
Board of Dental Examiners, its or
ganization and duties; providing for
the giving Of examinations and IL
censes by said Board; providing for
the issuance Of new licenses in place
Of those that are lost or destroyed;
providing for fees upon taking of ex-
aminations; providing for the revoca-
tion and suspension Of licenses; pro-
hibiting advertising by dentists; pro-
vtding appeals from the ruling of the
Board; defining dentistry; creating
certain exceptions to the Act; provid-
ing for penalties, and providing other
matters incidental to the general pur-
pose Of the Act. J.
Section /. Be it enacted by the Gen.
eral Assembly of Maryland, That Sec
tions 1 to 13, inclusive, Of Article S2 of
Maryland, 1885 Supplement-, Flack's
Edition, title Dentistry, be, and the
same are hereby, repealed; and that
twenty-three new sections, to be known
q Sections is 9s i is f. q, is g 3 lS 60 lGs &
and %. be, and they are hereby. en-:
new sections to read as follows:
/. It shall be unlawful for any per-
son to engage In the practice or den-
tistry in the State Of Maryland, unless
such person shall have obtained a IL
cense from the State Board Of Dental
Examiners OF the State of Maryland as
hereinafter provided, except that the
license of any dentist, existing ut the
time of the passage Of this Act. shall
continue in force unless suspended or
revoked by the Board in the manner
hereinafter provided.
All licenses issued by the Board shall
be issued to individual persons, and 1t
shall be unlawful for any dentist to
practice in this State under any name
except his own true name. No license
shall be issued to any corporation. as
sociatiOn, partnership, parlor, or any
entity or association of any kind or
character 1t shall be unlawful for any
individual or group of individuals to
practice dentistry in this State as
corporation or under corporate name:
or under a partnership name; as an
association or under an ASSOCIATION
name; as a parlor or under any parior
name, or an entity or under the name
of any entity of any kind or character
.. There shall be a State Board of
Dental Examiners, hereinafter called
the Board whose duty it shall he to
carry out the purposes and enforce the
provisions of this Article. { Said Board
shall consist of six registered and prac-
ticing dentists of recognized ability and
honor, residents of the State of Mary
land, each of whom shall have been in
active practice in the State for at least
five years Immediately preceding his ap-