ART. 43] PRACTITIONERS OF MEDICINE. 339

1894, ch. 217.

59. Any person who, after the first day of July, 1894, shall
practise or attempt to practise medicine or surgery in this State,
without being registered in accordance with the provisions of this
sub title, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be fined not
less than ten dollars nor more than two hundred dollars for each
offense.

1S96, ch. 194.

60. Any citizen of Maryland having information which causes
him to believe that any person has been heretofore wrongfully
and improperly registered as physician or surgeon, or both, upon
his application to the clerk of any court may apply, by petition,
to the circuit court of the county wherein such registration was
made, or to the city court of Baltimore city, if such registration
was 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 wrong-
fully registered as physician or surgeon, or both, upon his own
application and affidavit upon the register of physicians or book
kept for such purpose in any court of this State, for the reason
(as said petitioner is empowered) that such person was not law-
fully practising medicine in the State of Maryland, as a duly
qualified practitioner of medicine in said State, entitled to be
registered as a physician or surgeon upon his own application to
the clerk of said court; and that said petitioner prays that the
name of such person shall be struck from the registry of physi-
cians aforesaid. Upon the filing of such petition the court or
one of the judges thereof shall pass an order requiring the per-
son 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 be, why the prayer of such petition should not
be granted, which order shall be served upon said last-named per-
son; 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 direct-
ing that the name of such person alleged to be wrongfully or
improperly registered shall be stricken from the registry of physi-
cians or surgeons where the same shall have been registered; but