1807.

NOVEMBER. LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP.
LIII.

institutions may direct, and at the said commencements to admit any of the students of the said col-
lege, meriting the same, (whose names shall be severally inserted in the said mandate, ) to the office
and profession of surgeon, or to the degree of bachelor or doctor of medicine; and it is hereby enact-
ed, that the president or vice-president shall make out and sign, with his name, diplomas and certi-
ficates of the admission to such offices or degrees, which shall be sealed with the public or greater
seal of the college or corporation, and delivered to the graduates as honourable and perpetual testi-
monials of such admission; which diploma or certificate, if thought necessary for doing greater
honour to such graduates, shall also be signed by the names of the different professors or lecturers,
or as many of them as can conveniently sign the same; provided always, that no student or students
within the said college shall be admitted to any such offices or degrees, or have their names inserted
in any mandate for that purpose, until such students shall have been first duly examined and thought
worthy of the same, at a public examination of candidates to be held previous to the day of com-
mencement in the said college, by and in the presence of the regents and other persons choosing to
attend the same, and shall also have undergone such previous private examinations, and have per-
formed such exercises, as shall be prescribed by the future ordinances of the college; and provided
further, that no student or students in the said college shall be. admitted to the degree of doctor of
medicine, unless he or they shall have attended lectures in. the said college during two terms, and
shall, during that period, have attended each of the lectures prescribed by the ordinances for at
least one term, and shall also have written, and caused to be printed, a thesis or theses in the Latin
or English language, and shall publicly defend the same on the day of commencement; but the re-
gents of the college shall, at any time, have power to consider the having attended lectures in any
other medical seminary, of established reputation, for an equal space of time, as equivalent to having
attended one of the terms above prescribed..

And confer ho-
norary degrees,
&c.

XIII: AND BE IT ENACTED, That the regents shall, at any time, have the power of conferring the-
honorary degree of doctor of medicine on any physician who has practised physic for twenty years
within the state of Maryland, and of conferring the honorary degree of bachelor of medicine on any-
one who has practised physic for ten years within the same.

Licentiates
may demand
certificates, &c.

XIV. AND BE IT ENACTED, That every licentiate of the board of medical examiners who shall
have practised physic for five years within this state, shall have a right to demand and receive from
the college aforesaid a surgeon's certificate, free of all expense, except the sum of one dollar to the
register or other such officer of the college, for his trouble in making, out the same.

Right to confer
degrees, when
to take place,
&c.

XV. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the right of the said college to confer degrees shall not take
place until professors shall have been appointed, and one course of lectures delivered upon the seve-
ral branches of anatomy, chemistry, materia medica, and the practice of physic; provided that nothing
in this act shall be construed to prohibit the said regents from conferring, at any time, the honorary
degrees before mentioned, or from admitting, at any time, to the degree of doctor of medicine, such
persons as may be appointed professors in the college, cm their performing such exercises and duties
as may be prescribed by their ordinances..

Professors ap-
pointed. &c.

XVI. AND BE IT ENACTED, That until further arrangements be made by the regents of the said
college, John B. Davidge, M. D. and James Cocke, M. D. shall be joint professors of anatomy
surgery and physiology, George Brown,. M.. D. shall be professor of the practice and theory of medi-
cine, John Shaw, M. D. shall be professor of chemistry, Thomas E. Bond, M. D. shall be professor
of materia medica, and William Donaldson, M. D. shall be professor of the institutes of medicine
and the said professors, or any three of them, shall appoint the time and place of the first meeting
of the regents of the said college, giving one week's notice of it in two news-papers published in the
city of Baltimore,

Who have
completed a
term, &c.

XVII. AND BE IT ENACTED, That all students who matriculate in the said college previous to
the first day of January, and attend any of the lectures therein to the end of the course shall be
considered as having completed a term.

Faculty consi-
dered as the

patrons, &c.

XVIII. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the medical and Chirurgical faculty in the state of Mary-
land shall be considered as the patrons and visitors of the said college, and their president, for the
time being, shall be chancellor of the college; and the medical faculty of the said college shall give
into the said medical and Chirurgical faculty, at each of their biennial meetings, a report of the pro-
gress of learning in the said college, and of such other particulars as they shall think fit to commu-
nicate.