684 HEALTH. [ART. 43

that the person named therein has been heretofore improperly and
wrongfully registered as osteopath upon his own application and affi-

davit upon the register of osteopath or book kept for such purpose in
any Court of this State, for the reason (as said petitioner is empowered)
that such person was not lawfully practicing osteopathy in the State of
Maryland as a duly qualified osteopath in said State entitled to be
registered as an osteopath upon his own application to the Clerk of the

said Court; and that said petitioner prays that the name of such person
shall be struck from the registry of osteopath aforesaid. Upon the fil-
ing of such petition the Court or one of the judges thereof shall pass
an order requiring the person therein alleged to be wrongfully or im-
properly registered to answer the same, under oath, on or before a. date
to be named within thirty days from the date of such order, and to
show cause, if any there is, why the prayer of such petition should not
be granted, which order shall be served upon said last named person;
and if said petition shall not be answered within the time named, as
aforesaid, or if the answer thereto shall be adjudged insufficient by
the Court, then the Court shall pass an order directing that the name
of such person alleged to be wrongfully or improperly registered shall
be stricken from the registry of osteopathic physicians where the same
shall have been registered; but if said petition shall be answered by
the defendant, being the person against whom it is exhibited by an
answer under oath, fairly and fully denying the allegations of said
petition, the issues thus raised shall be heard and determined by the
Court, and either party may be entitled to a jury trial before a jury of
the regular panel empannelled to try common law cases in said Court;

and the defendant shall be competent and compellable to testify at such
hearing and upon such hearing the Court shall render judgment with

costs against the unsuccessful party. And if it shall determine that
said defendant was not practicing osteopathy in the State of Maryland

on or before the date of May 1st, 1914, not being a lawful practitioner
of osteopathy in said State on or before said date, it shall pass an order
directing the name of said defendant to be stricken from the registry of
osteopaths, which order shall be certified by the Clerk of the Court
wherein said defendant was registered, and he shall thereupon strike
his name from said registry.

It shall be' the duty of the Police Commissioners of Baltimore City,
and of the Sheriff of each County in the State, to see that all practicing
osteopaths in the State shall be legally registered, according to the pro-
visions of this sub-title, and to report to the State's Attorney of the
City or County all cases of the violation of the provision of this sub-
title.

It shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Board of said State Board
of Osteopathic Examiners to .inquire into all violations of law under
this Article, and to institute all proceedings or prosecutions thereof,
and all expenses incurred by the Secretary of such board hereunder