ART. — .] MEDICAL FACULTY OF MARYLAND.

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6. It shall be the duty of the permanent board of
examiners to meet on the first Monday in Septem-
ber, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, and annually

Ibid. s. 6
Permanent
board of exami-
ners to meet
annually.

thereafter on the first Monday in April, for the pur-
pose of granting and renewing licenses, the board

Their duties.

shall grant licenses only to those candidates -who,
by a careful examination are ascertained to have a
proper knowledge of natural philosophy, chemistry,
anatomy, physiology, materia medica and therapeu-
tics and the principles and practice of medicine, of
surgery, and of obstetrics, and shall renew licenses
that may have been obtained from the temporary as
well as those obtained from the permenent boards,
without subjecting applicants to an examination;

Licensee.

provided, however, that nothing herein contained
shall be construed so as to prevent said board from
granting special licenses, after proper examination
to such as may desire to practice only one or more
of the branches above enumerated; provided, also,
that nothing herein contained shall be construed so
as to prescribe the mode or manner in which diseases
are to be treated, every physician having proven
that he has a proper knowledge of the principles of
medicine, shall be at liberty to treat diseases accord-
ing to his individual honest convictions.

Provisos.

7. Each physician shall renew his license at the
annual meeting of the board of examiners, and shall
pay five dollars for the same; provided, however,
that if he can prove that he has attended the last
preceding annual election of examiners, he shall pay
only two dollars into the treasury of the board.

Ibid. s. 7.
License to bo
renewed.

Proviso.

8. After the election of the aforesaid permanent
medical board, no person shall be permitted to prac-
tice medicine, surgery, or obstetrics and receive pay-
ment for his services, without having first obtained
a license certified as directed by this law, under a
penalty of one Hundred dollars for each offence.

Ibid. s. 8.
No one allowed
to practice
without license

9. No person not authorized by this act to prac-
tice medicine, surgery, or obstetrics, shall be per-
mitted to practice any of those branches in the name

Ibid. s 9.
Not allowed to
practice in the
name or as partner
of another.