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of age, and had received a proper preliminary education; we therefore
give a written order for the examination of said ———— before one of the
boards of medical examiners of the State of Maryland; that the said

———— was fully examined before our said board and found proficient
and qualified to practise medicine and surgery, we, therefore, have granted
to said ———— this our license to practise medicine and surgery in the
State of Maryland as a physician and surgeon, and have caused the names
of the president and secretary of our board to be subscribed and the seal
of our society affixed hereto.

Witness our hands and the seal of our said society, this ———— day of

————, A. D. ———, president; ————, secretary.
[Seal of society.]

An. Code, 1924, sec. 126. 1912, sec. 118. 1904, sec. 89. 1892, ch. 296, sec. 48. 1902, ch. 612.

1904, ch. 690.

127. Any person receiving a license from either of said boards shall
file the same at once with the clerk of the circuit court of the county in
which he or she may reside, or with the clerk of the circuit court of Balti-
more City, if said person shall reside therein, and it shall be the duty of
said clerk to register the name of said person and of the president of the
board signing said license in a book kept for the purpose, as a part of the
records of his office; and the number of the book and the page therein con-
taining said recorded copy shall be noted by said clerk upon the face of said
license. In case said person should, after the recording of such license,
permanently remove his or her residence to some other part of the State,
or to Baltimore City, he or she shall thereupon at once file said license, or
certified copy thereof, for record as aforesaid, with the clerk of the cir-
cuit court of the county or city to which he or she shall have so removed;
said records shall be opened to public inspection under proper restrictions
as to their safe keeping, and in all legal proceedings shall have the same
weight as evidence that is given to the records of conveyances of lands.
The fees for such registration shall be fifty cents, to be paid by the person
whose license is registered. The clerk of the superior court of Baltimore
City is authorized and directed to turn over to the clerk of the circuit court
of Baltimore City the register or registers of licensed physicians which he
has been required to keep under and by virtue of the said chapter 612 of
the acts of 1902.

This section referred to in construing secs. 121 and 137—see notes thereto. Watson v.
State, 105 Md. 651; Watson v. Maryland, 218 U. S. 174.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 127. 1912, sec. 119. 1904, sec. 90. 1892, ch. 296, sec. 50.

128. Any person to whom the provisions of this sub-title applies, prac-
ticing or attempting to practice medicine or surgery in this State, without
first having obtained the license of one of said boards of medical examiners,
shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall pay a fine of not less than
fifty dollars nor more than two hundred dollars for each offense, or in
default of payment shall be confined in the city or county jail until the
fines and costs are paid, and shall be debarred from recovering compensa-
tion for services rendered as such physician or surgeon.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 128. 1912, sec. 120. 1904, sec. 91. 1892, ch. 296. 1902, ch. 612, sec. 52.

129. Said boards shall make a report to the Medical and Chirurgical
Faculty of Maryland and the Maryland State Homeopathic Medical So-
ciety, respectively, at each annual meeting of said respective societies.