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1116 HEALTH. [ART. 43
him to the same effect as the form of license set out in section 117,
which license shall be filed and recorded as provided by section 118,
and it shall then be the duty of the clerk of the court to register the
name of the person so licensed as physician or surgeon, or both, in
accordance with the provisions of this sub-title.
1904, art. 43, sec. 97. 1894, ch. 217, sec. 57.
126. All persons whose licenses have been heretofore filed and
recorded in accordance with section 118 shall be held to be duly regis-
tered physicians and surgeons within the provisions of section 123, and
all persons who shall hereafter receive 'and file licenses, to be recorded
in accordance with said section 118, shall be registered as physicians
and surgeons under said section, and the fee to be paid for such registra-
tion and for the registration of the application to the clerk or the license
therewith, as the case may require, shall be one dollar.
Ibid. sec. 98. 1894, ch. 217, sec. 58.
127. If any person shall unlawfully obtain and procure himself
to be registered as physician or surgeon, either by false and untrue
statement contained in his application to the clerk of the court, as
required by this sub-title, or by presenting to said clerk a false or
untrue license, or one fraudulently obtained by false and fraudulent
statements made to one of said boards of medical examiners, he or she
shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be fined not less
than fifty dollars nor more than five hundred dollars, and shall forfeit
all rights 'and immunities obtained or conferred upon him by virtue of
such registration as physician or surgeon.
Ibid. sec. 99. 1894, ch. 217, sec. 59.
128. Any person who after the first day of July, 1894, shall practise
or attempt to practise medicine or surgery in this State, without being
registered in accordance with the provisions of this sub-title, shall be
guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be fined not less than ten dollars
nor more than two hundred dollars for each offense.
An indictment under this section need not aver the sending of the notice
prescribed by section 109. The receipt of such notice is not necessary to con-
stitute the offense of practicing medicine without being registered. Such
offense is created solely by this section, in broad and general language, with-
out exception, qualification or condition. Pleas of "autre fois acquit" to an
Indictment under this section, held defective. Watson v. State, 105 Md. 652.
(The decision of the court of appeals of Maryland held to be final, Watson v.
Maryland, 218 U. S. 175.)
Ibid. sec. 100. 1896, ch. 194, sec. 61.
129. Any citizen of Maryland having information which causes him
to believe that any person has been heretofore wrongfully and improp-
erly registered as physician or surgeon, or both, upon his application
to the clerk of any court may apply, by petition, to the circuit court
of the county wherein such registration was made, or to the city court
of Baltimore city, if such registration was in Baltimore city, which
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