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court for the county in which such offense was committed, or
by indictment in the circuit court for the county in which such
offense was committed. If any person shall be adjudged guilty
of any such offense by the court having jurisdiction in the
premises, he shall be sentenced to pay the fine or penalty
herein prescribed for such offense, and the costs of his or
their prosecution; and in default of payment thereof, he
shall be committed to jail until thence discharged by due
course of law.

Practitioners of Medicine.

1888, art. 43, sec. 39. 1888, ch. 429. 1892, ch. 296. 1902, ch. 612.

78. All persons now practising medicine and surgery, or
who shall hereafter begin to practise medicine and surgery in
any of their departments, except dentistry, in the State of
Maryland, shall possess the qualification required by this sub-
title.
Manger v. Board of Examiners, 90 Md. 666. Scholle v. State, 90 Md. 738.

Ibid. sec. 40. 1888, ch. 429. 1892, ch. 296. 1902, ch. 612.

79. From and after the first Tuesday in June, eighteen
hundred and ninety-two, there shall be and continue to be two
separate board of medical examiners for the State of Mary-
land—one representing the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty
of the State of Maryland, and one representing the Maryland
State Homeopathic Medical Society of the State of Mary-
land. The members of said respective boards in office on
the eleventh day of April, 1902, shall continue to hold and
exercise their respective offices up to the first Tuesday in
June, nineteen hundred and two. On the first Tuesday in
June, nineteen hundred and two, said two boards of medical
examiners shall be reorganized, and thereafter said boards shall
be constituted as follows : Each of said boards shall consist
of eight members, who shall be selected by the Medical and
Chirurgical Faculty of the State of Maryland and the Mary-
land State Homeopathic Medical Society, respectively, at the
annual meetings of said respective societies; and each appointee
is immediately after his election to be furnished with a certifi-
cate thereof by the society electing him. Each such member
of said respective boards, except those elected in the year
nineteen hundred and two, shall serve for four years, or until
his suceessor is appointed and qualified. At their respective
annual meetings held in the year nineteen hundred and two,
each of said aforementioned societies shall elect the full