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"Section 14. The manner of administering oaths
may be by requiring the person making the same to
hold up his hand in token of his recognition of the
solemnity of the act, except in these cases from any
cause this is impracticable or it shall appear that some
other mode is more binding upon the conscience oi the
swearer. "

Which was adopted.

Said bill, as amended, was read the second time, and
ordered to be engrossed for a third reading.

Senate bill entitled an Act to repeal and re-enact
with additions and amendments sections 39, 40, 41, 42,
43, 44, 45, 46 and 47, of Article 43, of the Code of
Public General Laws, title "Health, " sub-title "Prac-
titioners of Medicine. "

With the following proposed amendments:
AMENDMENTS PROPOSED.

Amend title by adding thereto, after the words
"practitioners of medicine, " the following, "and to
add additional sections thereto, to be designated as
"Sections 49, 50, 51 and 52. "

Amend the enacting clause by adding thereto, after
the word "additions, " at the end of the 3d line, the
following, "and that new sections be added to said
Article to be designated as 'Sections 49, 50, 51, 52. ' "

Amend by inserting after the word "requirement, "
in section 43, line 66, of written bill, the words follow-
ing:

"Provided, that this condition shall not apply to
students who shall be in their second year in a medi-
cal college nor to physicians who shall be practicing
medicine at the time of the passage of this Act. "

Amend by striking out the words "And be it en-
acted, That, " in the first line of sections 39, 48, 49
and 50, of the written bill.

Amend by striking out the words "And be it fur-
ther enacted, That, " in sections 52 and 53, of the
written bill.

Strike out the whole of section 51.

Substitute the figures "51" for the figures "52, " in
the written bill.