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FIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 313. 1896. 201 a license, and may cause the name of any person to be removed from C·¤¤¤¤· the record of the supreme court of the District of Columbia. and from the register of the health office for any of the following causes, to wit: The employment of fraud or deception in passing the examinations provided for in this Act, chronic inebriety, the practice of criminal abortion, conviction of crime involving moral turpitude, or of unprofes- _ sional or dishonorable conduct. In complaints under this section the H°“""g"‘ accused shall be furnished with a copy of the complaint and given a hearing before said board in person or by attorney, and witnesses may be heard for and on behalf of the accused, and for and on behalf of the said board. Appeal from the decision of said board may be taken to the court of appeals of the District of Columbia, and the decision of said court shall be final. Said board may at any time within two R¤i¤¤¤¤¤f1ic¤¤¤¤. years from the refusal or revocation of a license, or the cancellation of registration under this section, by a vote of four members, issue, without examination, a new license to the person so affected, restoring to him or her all the rights and privileges of which he or she had been . deprived by said board. Sec. 11. That any person receiving a license as hereinbefore provided c,£{=°¤‘·}, i¤ ¤¤i¤¤ ·>f shall have it recorded in the office of the clerk of the supreme court of wm. ° °°"°"`° the District of Columbia within three months from the date of said license, and the place and date of record shall be certified thereon by said clerk; and the holder of the license shall pay to the clerk of said court a fee of fifty cents for making the record. The holder of said ,f"““" °‘“°° "K*¤· license shall, after the same has been recorded, exhibit the same at the health office, and shall register, in a book provided for that purpose, his or her name and address. Wheriever a license is revoked by said board of medical supervisors the secretary thereof shall report that tact in writing to the clerk of said court and to the health officer of the District of Columbia, who shall thereupon cancel such registration. P Sec. 12. That this Act shall not apply to commissioned surgeons of r¤...°irE`Zl§3..,f’Z§,'i°Pt°d the United States Army, Navy, or Marine-Hospital Service, nor to regularly licensed physicians and surgeons in actual consultation from ` other States or Territories, nor to regularly licensed physicians and surgeons actually called from other States or Territories to attend specified cases in the District of Columbia, nor to the treatment of any case of actual emergency, nor to the practice of massage or the so called Swedish movement cure, nor to the use of ordinary domestic remedies without fee, gift,.or consideration of any kind. Sec. 13. That from and after the passage of this Act any person ,,§,°:’}]§,§f*°"`*°‘°'*“¢ practicing medicine and surgery or midwifery in the District of Colum· ' bia, or who shall publicly profess to do so, without first having obtained from the board of medical supervisors of the District of Columbia a license and registered the same as herein provided, or in violation of any of the provisions of this Act or any of the rules and regulations made by authority conferred herein, or after his license or registration, has been canceled by order of said board of medical supervisors of the District of Columbia, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished for each offense by a line of not less than fifty nor more than five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the Di trict jail for a period of not less than ten nor more than ninety days, or by both such fine and imprisonment. It shall be the duty of the United States district attorney for the District of Columbia to prosecute all violations of the provisions of this Act. Sec. 14. That the secretary of the board of medical supervisors shall Bfp:§§ “f,Q°Q{Q"“°' be paid for taking testimony the same fee that is allowed to an exam· ’ incr in chancery for the same service. The expense of said board and of the examinations shall be paid from the license fees herein provided for; and if any surplus remain on the thirtieth day of June of each year the members of the board of medical supervisors appointed as such shall be paid such reasonable compensation as the Commissioners of the District of Columbia may determine, and any balance then remaining shall be divided among the three boards of medical examiners