1388 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

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 empannelled 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 oste-
opathy in the State of Maryland on or before the date of May
1st, 1914, not being a lawful practitioner of osteopathy 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
osteopaths, which order shall be certified by the Clerk of
the Court wherein said defendant was registered, and he shall
thereupon strike his name from said registry.

It shall be the duty of the Police Commissioners of Baltimore
City, and of the Sheriff of each County in the State, to see that
all practicing osteopaths in the State shall be legally reg-
istered, according to the provisions of this sub-title, and to
report to the State's Attorney of the City or County all cases
of the violation of the provision of this "sub-title.

It shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Board of said
State Board of Osteopathic Examiners to inquire into all viola-
tions of law under this Article, and to institute all proceedings
or prosecutions thereof, and all expenses incurred by the Secre-
tary of such board hereunder shall be allowed and paid out of
the funds acquired by or belonging to said board.

The said Board of Osteopathic Examiners shall have full
control over the expenditures and disposition of the funds col-
lected from the fees and charges authorized to be made under
the terms of this sub-title, and shall affix and allow such com-
pensation as they may deem proper for service rendered in the
performance of the duties required by this sub-title by members
of said board or others, with the full power also to allow and
discharge all proper expenses of said board, and any surplus, to
dispose of as said board may deem for the advantage of the
practice of osteopathy in this State, and the Treasurer shall
make a report in detail to the Governor of the State each year.

Any person practising or attempting to practice osteopathy
under the name of any other person, whether that person be a
resident of this State or not, or whether he or she be deceased or
not, or any person acting under the name of and as agent of