LLOYD LOWNDES, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

CHAPTER 194.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments, Sections 54
and 56 of Article 43 of the Code of Public General Laws,
entitled "Health," sub-title "Practitioners of Medicine," and
to add additional Sections thereto, to be designated as Sec-
tions 61, 62, 63 and 64 of said Article.

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SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That sections 54 and 56 of Article 43 of the Code of
Public General Laws, title "Health," sub-title "Practitioners of
Medicine," be and the same are hereby repealed and re-enacted

Repeal.

with amendments, and new sections, to be known as sections 61,
62, 63 and 64, are hereby enacted and added to said article, to
be designated as sections 61, 62, 63 and 64, to read as follows :

54. Every person who was practicing medicine in the

New sections.

State of Maryland, on or before the first day of June, 1892,
shall be entitled to be registered as a physician or surgeon or
both, upon making application to the president of either Board
of State Medical Examiners, which application shall be in
writing, and verified by the oath of said applicant, taken before
any ofticer entitled to administer oaths under the law of this
State, and shall state that the applicant was a duly qualified
lawful practitioner of medicine, in good standing, actually
engaged in the practice of such profession in said State, on or
before said first day of June, 1892. And upon receiving said
application, and being satisfied of the truth of said statement

therein contained, said president of such board, shall issue or
endorse his permit for such applicant to be registered, upon a
copy of such application, which permit shall also be counter-
signed by the secretary of said board; and any president of such
board, to whom such application is addressed, may in his dis-
cretion make inquiry, and examine witnesses under oath, or
receive other evidence as to the truth of the statements con-
tained in such application, for a permit to be registered; and if
the president of either of such boards of medical examiners
shall act upon such application, and shall refuse the same
then no president of the other of said boards shall entertain
or act upon any application of such applicant for such permit
And upon the presentation of a permit to be registered, signed
by the president, and countersigned by the secretary of eithe
of said boards of medical examiners, to the clerk of the county
where such applicant may reside, or to the Clerk of the Circuit
Court of Baltimore city, if said applicant shall reside in

Who entitled
to be regis-
tered as
physician
or surgeon,