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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

New sections.

General Laws, title "Health," sub-title "Practitioners of Medi-
cine," be and the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted, and
that new sections be added to said article, to be designated as
sections 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59 and 60, so as to read as
follows :

Form of

license.

47. That every license to practice medicine and surgery,
issued pursuant to the provisions of this act, shall be subscribed
by the president and secretary of the board before whom the
applicant has passed; it shall also have affixed to it by the
person authorized to affix the same, the seal of said Medical
and Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland or of the Maryland
State Homeopathic Medical Society, as the license may require,
every such license to be in the following form and to the
following effect :

To all whom it may concern, greeting :

Be it known, that —— , on the —— day of —— , A. D.,
having offered us satisfactory proof that —— was more than
twenty-one years of age, and had received a proper prelimi-
nary education; we therefore give a written order for the
examination of said —— before one of the board of medical
examiners of the State of Maryland; that the said —— was
fully examined before our said board and found proficient and
qualified to practice medicine and surgery, we, therefore, have
granted to said —— this our license to practice medicine and
surgery in the State of Maryland as a physician and surgeon,
and have caused the names of the president and secretary of
our board to be subscribed and the seal of our society affixed
hereto.

Witness our hands and the seal of our said society, this ——
day of —— , A. D. —— , President; —— , Secretary.

[Seal of Society.]

Registration
necessary.

53. From and after the first day of July, 1894, no person
shall practice medicine or surgery in the State of Maryland,
unless he or she shall be duly registered as a physician or sur-
geon, in accordance with the provisions of this act.

Application
for registra-
tion.

54. Every person, who was practicing medicine in the State
of Maryland on or before the first day of June, 1892, shall be
entitled to be registered as physician or surgeon, or both, upon
application to the clerk of the Circuit Court of the county in