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intent thereby to imply that he or she is a practitioner of medi-
cine or surgery; but nothing herein contained shall be con-
strued to apply to gratuitous services, nor to any resident or
assistant resident physicians or students at hospitals in the
discharge of their hospital or dispensary duties, or in the
office of physicians, or to any physician or surgeon from
another State, territory or district in which he resides when in
actual consultation with a legal practitioner of this State; or to
commissioned surgeons of the United States army or navy or
marine hospital service, or to chiropodists, or to mid-wives,
or to masseurs or other manual manipulators who use no other
means; nor shall the provisions of this sub-title apply to
physicians or surgeons residing on the borders of a neighbor-
ing State, and duly authorized under the laws thereof to
practise medicine or surgery therein, whose practice extend
into the limits of this State; provided, that such practitioners
shall not open an office or appoint places to meet their patients
or receive calls within the limits of this State without comply-
ing with the provisions of this sub-title; provided, that the
same privileges be accorded to licensed physicians of this
State; provided, further, that nothing in this sub-title shall
annul any of the provisions of article 32, title "Dentistry,"
nor shall apply to any registered graduate of dental surgery
now practising in the said State of Maryland, with the sign
titles : dentist, surgeon dentist, dental surgeon or stometelogist.

1902, ch. 612, sec. 61 A.

102. It shall be the duty of the police commissioners of
Baltimore city, and of the sheriff of each county in the State,
to see that all practising physicians 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 provisions of this sub-title.

1896, ch. 194, sec. 63.

103. It shall be the duty of the secretary of either or both
of said State Boards of Medical Examiners to inquire into all
violations of law under this article and to institute all proceed-
ings or prosecutions thereof, and all expenses incurred by any
secretary of either of such boards hereunder shall be allowed
and paid out of the funds acquired by or belonging to said
boards' respectively.