EMERSON C. HARRINGTON, GOVERNOR. 1087

298. A school or college of osteopathy to be recognized as
reputable under the provisions of this sub-title must be legal-
ly incorporated, prosecute a course of study consisting of the
element as provided for under the provisions of this sub-title,
and requiring attendance and instruction in all the branches
of study in which examination are required for licensure un-
der the provisions of this sub-title. Provided, that nothing in
this sub-title shall be construed to affect the right to practice
osteopathy on the part of any person who was in the practice of
osteopathy within this State on April 13, 1914. Such a person
appearing before the Clerk of the County in which he or she is
practicing, or clerk of the Circuit Court of Baltimore City,
and making affidavit to that effect, and upon presenting to the
Clerk a license issued by the State Board of Osteopathic Exam-
iners and upon payment of a fee of One Dollar shall be regis-
tered. Provided further that any Osteopathic physician or phy-
sicians, who may have registered previous to the enactment of
this amendment without having obtained a license from, the
State Board of Osteopathic Examiners shall apply for and be
granted a license within sixty days from the enactment of this
amendment or be debarred from further practice, and be subject
to the penalties as provided in Section 300 of this Act. Any citi-
zen of Maryland, having information which causes him to be-
lieve that any person is wrongfully and improperly practicing
as an osteopath without having obtained a license from the
State Board of Osteopathic Examiners as provided for in this
sub-title, may apply by petition to the Circuit Court of Balti-
more City, or the Circuit Court of the County wherein said
Osteopathic physician is practicing without having obtained a
license as required by this sub-title, which petition shall bo
under oath and shall state that the petitioner is informed and
believes that the person named therein is improperly and
wrongfully practicing as an osteopath without having obtained
a license from the State Board of Osteopathic Examiners of
Maryland, as required by this sub-title, and that said petitioner
prays that the name of such person shall be stricken from the
registry of Osteopathy as kept by the Clerk of the Circuit
Court of Baltimore City or the Circuit Court of the County.
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 engaged in the practice of os-
teopathy, without obtaining a license from the State Board of
Osteopathic Examiners, as provided by this sub-title, to an-
swer the same under oath on or before a day to be named