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ART. XLIII] OSTEOPATHY. 323
296.
See notes to section 298.
297.
See notes to section 298.
1914, ch. 786. 1916, ch. 522.
298. A school or college of osteopathy to be recognized as reputable
under the provisions of this sub-title must be legally incorporated,
prosecute a course of study consisting of the element as provided for
under the provisions of this sub-title, and requiring attendance and
instruction in all the branches of study in which examination are re-
quired for licensure under the provisions of this sub-title. Provided,
that nothing in this sub-title shall be construed to affect the right to
practice osteopathy on the part of any person who was in the practice
of osteopathy within this State on April 13, 1914. Such a person
appearing before the Clerk of the County in which he or she is prac-
ticing, or clerk of the Circuit Court of Baltimore City, and making-
affidavit to that effect, and upon presenting to the Clerk a license issued
by the State Board of Osteopathic Examiners and upon payment of a
fee of One Dollar shall be registered. Provided further that any osteo-
pathic physician or physicians, who may have registered previous to the
enactment of this amendment without having obtained a license from
the State Board of Osteopathic Examiners shall apply for and be
granted a license within sixty days from the enactment of this amend-
ment or be debarred from further practice, and be subject to the penal-
ties as provided in Section 300 of this Article. Any citizen of Mary-
land, having information which causes him to believe that any person
is wrongfully and improperly practicing as an osteopath without having
obtained a license from the State Board of Osteopathic Examiners as
provided for in this sub-title, may apply by petition to the Circuit
Court of Baltimore City, or the Circuit Court of the County wherein
said osteopathic physician is practicing without having obtained a
license as required by this sub-title, which petition shall be under oath
and shall state that the petitioner is informed and believes that the
person named therein is improperly and wrongfully practicing as an
osteopath without having obtained a license from the State Board of
Osteopathic Examiners of Maryland, as required by this sub-title, and
that said petitioner prays that the name of such person shall be stricken
from the registry of Osteopathy as kept by the Clerk of the Circuit
Court of Baltimore City or the Circuit Court of the County. Upon the
filing 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 engaged in the practice of osteopathy, without obtaining a
license from the State Board of Osteopathic Examiners, as provided by
this sub-title, to answer the same under oath on or before a day 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
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