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tration 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 im-
properly and wrongfully 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 lawfully practicing 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 physicians aforesaid. Upon the
filing of such petition the court or one of the judges thereof
shall pass an order requiring the person 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 person; and if said peti-
tion 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 directing that the name
of such person alleged to be wrongfully or improperly regis-
tered shall be stricken from the registry of physicians or sur-
geons where the same shall have been registered; but if said
petition shall be answered by the defendant, being the person
against whom it is exhibited by an answer under oath, fairly
and fully denying the allegations of said petition, the issues
thus raised shall be heard and determined by the court, and
either party may be entitled to a jury trial before a jury of the
regular panel empanneled to try common law cases in said court;
and the defendant shall be competent and compellable to testify
at such hearing, and upon such hearing, the court shall render
judgment with costs against the unsuccessful party. And if
it shall determine that said defendant was not practicing medi-
cine in the State of Maryland on or before the date of June
1st, 1892, not being a lawful practitioner of medicine in said
State, on or before said date, it shall pass an order directing the
name of said defendant to be stricken from the registry of
physicians or surgeons or both, which order shall be certified
by the clerk of the court wherein said defendant was regis-
tered, and he shall thereupon strike his name from said regis-