PHILLIPS LEE GOLDSBOROUGH, GOVERNOR. 1387

be furnished by the State Board of Osteopathic Examiners with
a copy of the complaint and shall have a hearing before said
board, in person or by attorney, and witnesses may be exam-
ined by said board respecting guilt or innocence of said accused.
The suspension of license of any licentiate under this Act shall
be removed when said narcotic or vicious habit, hereinbefore
specified, shall have been adjudged by the proper authorities to
be cured or overcome, and said suspended licentiate deemed
again capable of practising his profession.

Any citizen of Maryland having information which causes
him to believe that any person has been heretofore wrongfully
and improperly registered as osteopath, upon his appli-
cation to the Clerk of any Court may apply, by petition,
to the Circuit Court of the County wherein such registration
was made, or to the Circuit 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 here-
tofore improperly and wrongfully registered as osteopath
upon his own application and affidavit upon the register
of osteopath or book kept for such purpose in any Court
of this State, for the reason (as said petitioner is em-
powered) that such person was not lawfully practicing
osteopathy in the State of Maryland as a duly qualified osteo-
path in said State entitled to be registered as an osteopath
upon his own application to the Clerk of the said Court; and
that said petitioner prays that the name of such person shall be
struck from the registry of osteopath 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 is,
why the prayer of such petition should not be granted, which
order shall be served upon said last named person; and if said
petition shall not be answered within the time named, as afore-
said, 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
registered shall be stricken from the registry of Osteopathic
physicians where the same shall have been registered; but if
said petition shall be answered by the defendant, being the per-
son against whom it is exhibited by an answer under oath, fairly