HEALTH 1931

in Baltimore City, which petition shall be under oath, and shall state that
the petitioner is informed and believes that the person named therein has
been heretofore improperly and wrongfully registered as osteopath upon
his own application and affidavit upon the register of osteopath or book kept
for such purpose in any Court of this State, for the reason (as said peti-
tioner is empowered) that such person was not lawfully practicing oste-
opathy 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 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
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 Commissioner of Baltimore City, and
of the Sheriff of each County in the State, to see that all practicing osteo-
paths in the State shall be legally registered, according to the provisions 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 shall be allowed
and paid out of the funds acquired by or belonging to said board.

The said Board of Osteopathic Examiners shall have full control oyer
the expenditures and disposition of the funds collected from the fees and
charges authorized to be made under the terms of this sub-title, and shall
affix and allow such compensation as they may deem proper for service
rendered in the performance of the duties required by this sub-title by mem-
bers of said board or others, with the full power also to allow and discharge
all proper expenses of said board, and any surplus, to dispose of as said
board may deem for the advantage of the practice of osteopathy in this