1668 ARTICLE 43.

visions of this sub-title, and requiring attendance and instruction in all the
branches of study in "which examination are required 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 practicing, 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 osteopathic phy-
sician 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 amendment or be debarred from further
practice, and be subject to the penalties as provided in Section 359 of this
Article. Any citizen of Maryland, 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 Osteo-
pathic 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 improperly 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 peti-
tion should not be granted, which order shall be served upon the 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 practicing osteopathy 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
as 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 compella-
ble to testify at such hearing and upon such hearing the Court shall render