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but nothing herein contained shall be construed to pro-
hibit gratuitous services, nor to interfere with any resi-
dent or assistant resident physicians or students at hos-
pitals in the discharge of their hospital or dispensary
duties, or with any physician or surgeon from another
State or Territory in which he resides, when in actual
consultation with a legal practitioner of this State, or
with commissioned surgeons of the United States Army
or Navy or Marine Hospital service, or with midwives;,
nor shall the provisions of this Act apply to physicians or
surgeons residing on the borders of n neighboring State
and duly authorized under the laws thereof to practice
medicine or surgery therein, whose practice extends into
the limits of this State; provided that such practitioners'
shall not open an office or appoint a place to meet pat-
ients or receive calls within the limits of this State with-
out complying with the provisions of this Act. It shall
be unlawful after the passage of this Act for any one to
engage in the itinerant vending of any drug, nostrum,
ointment or application of any kind, intended for the
treatment of disease or injury, or for any such itinerant
vender by writing or printing, or any other method, to
profess to cure or treat disease, injury or deformity by
any drug, nostrum, manipulation or other expedient. Any
such itinerant vender so offending shall, upon conviction,
be punished by a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars
nor more than one hundred dollars, or by imprisonment
in the city or county jail for not less than thirty nor
more than ninety days, or both, in the discretion of the
court, for each offense.

"61 A. It shall be the duty of the Police Commis-
sioners of Baltimore city and of the Sheriffs of each
county in the State to see that all practising physicians
in this State shall be legally registered according to the
provisions of this Act and of Article 43, of the Code of
Public General Laws, within six months from the date
of the passage of this Act.

"62. Repealed.

"64. Any person practising or attempting to practice
medicine under the name of any other person, whether
that person be a resident of this State or not, or whether
he or she be deceased or not, or any person acting under
the name of and as agent of any other person, in the