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198 FIFTYFOURTH CON GRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 313. 1896. ·T¤¤¤ 3, 18W- CHAP. 313.-An Act To regulate the practice of medicine and surgery, to license ·;"*‘*_' physicians and surgeons, and to punish persons violating the provisions thereof in 4 the District of Columbia. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United m’°’*°*°*`C°"““"‘“· States of America in Congress assembled, That there shall be, and is B<>e¤l·>f ¤1¤*l¥ji¤l W hereby, created a board of medical supervisors of the District of Co- P°"`°°" °mlumbia, which shall consist of the presidents of the three boards of medical examiners hereinafter provided for and two persons, not phy- sicians, one of whom shall be learned in the law, to be appointed by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, each for a period of {*••¤*··>¤·t mn of three years, or until his successor is appointedl Provided, That not aimgiixzsmm sys. more than two members of the board of supervisors shall be adherents '°”*°· of any one system of medical practice: And provided further, That said Commissioners may remove, after due notice and hearing, any member of said board for neglect of duty or other just cause, and that in case V=¤¤¤¢i¤¤· Me of the death, resignation, or removal of any member the vacancy for the unexpired term of said member shall be filled in the same manner as other appointments are made. 0m°°'°· Sec. 2. That the said board of medical supervisors shall elect a F¤s¤l·¤¤¤•· president, a vice-president, and a secretary. Said board shall make, subject to the approval of the Commissioners of the District of Colum- . bia, such regulations as may be necessary to carry into eifect the pro- - visions of this Act. Said board shall bold such meetings as may be necessary for the transaction of business. Said board shall supervise ¤¤¤¤·¤·*·>P¤*=**°°· all examinations provided for in this Act, and shall issue all licenses to practice medicine and surgery or midwifery in the District of Colum- 'nmam bia. Said board shall keep an official record of its meetings, also an official register of all applicants for examination for licenses to practice Rvsimr- medicine and surgery in the District of Columbia. Said register shall show the name, a e, plaeeand duration of residence of each candidate, the time he or 510 has spent in medical study, in or out of medical schools, and the names and locations of all medical schools which have granted said applicant any degree or certificate of attendance upon lectures in medicine. Said register shall also show whether said applicant was rejected or licensed under this Act. Said register shall be sm-amy. Prima facie evidence of all matters contained therein. The secretary aforesaid may be elected by said board from others than its own members; said secretary shall also act as treasurer, and shall give such bond as may be required by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia; said secretary shall have the power to administer oaths upon such matters as pertain to the business of said board; said secretary shall mail to the address of each applicant a notice of the time and place of examination, not less than seven days before the examination, and at a longer period if requested by the applicant at the time of making application. mgsgminnrizzsctfgg Sec. 3. That from and after the passage of this Act all persons medm§’¤,,‘Q,,*§ ,,,u.g,,,y_ desiring to practice medicine and surgery in any of their branches in the District of Columbia shall apply to said board of medical super- Visors for a license to do so. Applicants shall submit to examination upon the following-named branches, to wit: Anatomy, physiology, chemistry, pathology, materia medica and therapeutics, hygiene, histology, practice of medicine, surgery, obstetrics and gynecology, diseases of the eye and the ear, medical Jurisprudeiice, and such other branches as said board shall deem advisable. Each applicant shall be certified by said board for examination as speedily as possible to the board of' ` medical examiners whose members are adherents to the system of Q¤=·¤¤¤¤i·>¤¤» medicine which said applicant desires to practice; but said board shall not certify for examination any applicant until satisfactory proof is furnished that he or she is of good moral character and over twenty— one years of age, nor until he or she haspresented a diploma conferring upon him or her the degree of doctor of medicine, issued by some medgggymks etc ical college authorized by law to confer such degree: Provided. That said 'diploma, if issued prior to July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight,