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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

authority and discretion to require said applicant to undergo
an examination, in accordance with the provisions of sections
41 to 47, inclusive, of this article, or may require said appli-
cant to submit to a special examination, the terms and methods
•of which shall be prescribed by the said board of medical ex-
aminers; and upon paying the fee for examination, as set out
in section 45 of this article, after the examination and the de-
termination of said board thereupon, that said applicant is
•qualified to practice medicine and surgery, and that he is en-
titled to a license, a license shall be issued to him to the same
•effect as the form of license set out in section 47 of this article,
which license shall then be tiled and recorded, as provided by
section 47 of this article; and it shall then be the duty of the
clerk of the court to register the name of the person so licensed
as physician or surgeon, or both, in accordance with the pro-
visions of this act.

Fee for regis-
tration.

57. All persons whose licenses have been heretofore filed
. and recorded in accordance with section 48 of this article,
shall be held to be duly registered physicians and surgeons
within the provisions of section 53 of this article, and all per-
sons who shall hereafter receive and file licenses, to be recorded
in accordance with said section 48, shall be registered as physi-
cians and surgeon under said section, and the fee to be paid for
such registration and for the registration of the application to
the clerk, or the license therewith, as the case may require,
shall be one dollar.

Fraudulent
registration

58. If any person shall unlawfully obtain and procure him-
self to be registered as physician or surgeon, either by false
- and untrue statement contained in his application to the clerk
of this court, as required by this article, or by presenting to
said clerk a false or untrue license, or one fraudulently obtained
by false and fraudulent statements made to one of said boards
of medical examiners, he or she shall be deemed guilty of a
misdemeanor, and shall be fined not less than fifty dollars nor
more than five hundred dollars, and shall forfeit all rights and
immunities obtained or conferred upon him by virtue of such
registration as physician or surgeon.

Failure to
register

59. Any person who, after the first day of July, 1894, shall
practice or attempt to practice medicine or surgery in this
" State, without being registered in accordance with the provi-
sions of this act, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall