geons who hold certificates granted by the now existing board of medical examiners shall be exempt from the provisions of this section.

$603. The board may refuse to grant a certificate for unprofessional dishonorable or immoral conduct. Before a certificate can be refused for such cause, the board must serve in writing upon the applicant a copy of any charge or charges against him, and appoint a day for hearing, at which the applicant or any witness in his behalf may appear and give testimony in refutation in such charges. . . .

$604.-Every person obtaining a certificate from the board, must, within sixty days from the date thereof, have the same recorded in the office of the county clerk in the county wherein he resides; if he removes from one county to another to practice medicine or surgery, his certificate must immediately be recorded in the county to which he removes. The county clerk must indorse upon the certificate the date of record, and he is entitled to charge and receive his usual fees for such services, the fee to be paid by the applicant. Until the certificate be recorded, as provided by this section, the physician practicing under it is subject to the penalties prescribed in the penal code for practicing without a certificate.

$605.―This act shall not apply to midwives of skill and experience, commissioned surgeons of the United States army and navy in the discharge of their official duties; nor to physicians and surgeons in actual consultation from other states and territories

§606.—..

$607. Candidates for examination shall pay in advance to the secretary of the board of medical examiners a fee of fifteen dollars, which fee shall defray the entire expense of said candidates for examination before the aforesaid board of examiners. Any one failing to pass the required examination shall be entitled to a second examination within six months, without fee. And the moneys so received shall be turned over the state treasurer, to be by him deposited in the medical board fund, as herein before provided.

NEBRASKA

SYNOPSIS OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL PRACTICE ACT. STATUTES 1905.

$4321. Who May Practice.-It shall be unlawful for any person to practice medicine, surgery or obstetrics, or any of the branches thereof, in this State, without first having applied for and obtained from the State Board of Health a license so to do. Application therefor shall be made in writing, and shall be accompanied by the examination fees hereinafter specified and with proof that the applicant is of good moral character. Applications from candidates who desire to practice medicine and surgery in any or all of their branches shall be accompanied by proof that the applicant is a graduate of a medical school or college in good standing, as defined in Section Eight (8) of this Article. When the application aforesaid has been inspected by the Board and found to comply with the foregoing provisions, the Board shall notify the applicant to appear before it for examination at the time and place mentioned in such notice. Examination may be wholly or in part in writing by the Board and shall be of a character sufficiently strict to test the qualifications of the candidate as a practitioner. The examination of those who desire to practice medicine and surgery in any or all their branches shall embrace those subjects and topics, a knowledge of which is commonly and generally required of candidates for the degree of doctor of medicine, by reputable medical colleges in the United States. All examinations provided for in this act shall be conducted under rules and regulations prescribed by the board, which shall provide for a fair and wholly impartial method of examination. It is also provided that examinations on practice of medicine and therapeutics shall be conducted by the member, or members, of the Board of Secretaries, who are of the same school of medicine as that of the applicant. And it is further provided, that the said State Board of Health, may at their discretion, admit, without examination, legally qualified medical practitioners, who hold certificates to practice medicine in any state with equal requirements to those of the state of Nebraska.

$4322. Medical School Defined.-The term medical school or college in good standing, shall be defined as follows, to wit: a medical school or college requiring a preliminary examination for admission to its course of study in all the common branches, and in Latin and the higher mathematics, which requirements shall be regularly published in all the advertisements and in each prospectus or catalogue issued by said school, which medical school or col

lege shall also require as a requisite for granting the degree of M. D., attendance upon at least four courses of lectures of six months each, no two of said courses to he held within one year, and having a full faculty of capable professors in all the different branches of medical education, to wit: anatomy, physiology, chemistry, toxicology, pathology, hygiene, materia medica, therapeutics, obstetrics, bacteriology, medical jurisprudence, gynecology, principles and practice of medicine and surgery and specially requiring clinical instruction in the two last named of not less than four hours per week in each during the last two courses of lectures: provided, That this four years clause shall not apply to degrees granted, or to be granted, prior to August, 1898.

Diplomas. It shall be the duty of all persons intending to practice medicine, surgery or obstetrics in the state of Nebraska before beginning the practice thereof, in any branch thereof, to present his diploma to said board, together with his affidavit that he is the lawful possessor of the same, that he has attended the full course of study required for the degree of M. D. and that he is the person therein named. Such affidavit may be taken before any person authorized to administer oaths, and the same shall be attested under the hand and official seal of such official, if he has a seal, and any person swearing falsely in such affidavit shall be guilty of perjury and subject to the penalty therefor.

$4323. License-Certificate-Register.-If upon investigation of the proofs submitted by the Board, and after the examination, as herein before provided, the applicant shall be found entitled to practice, there shall be issued to said applicant the certificate of said board under its seal and signed by its secretaries stating such fact, and it shall be the duty of the applicant before practicing to file such certificate or a copy thereof in the office of the County Clerk in the County in which he or she resides or in which he or she intends to practice; such certificate or copy shall be filed by the County Clerk and by him recorded in a book kept for that purpose, properly indexed, to be called the "Physicians' Register" and for such services the County Clerk shall receive from the applicant the same fees as are allowed to the Register of Deeds for the recording of conveyances.

$4326. Removal from County.-Any person who shall obtain a certificate provided by this act and shall remove to another county shall before the entering upon the practice of his profession in such other county cause said certificate to be filed and recorded in the office in the County clerk of the county to which he has removed.

$4327. Certificate-Refusal-Revocation.-The board may refuse to issue a certificate, or may revoke one already issued for any of the causes defined in this section, to wit: the employment of fraud or deception in applying for license or diploma or in passing the examination provided for in this act; conviction of crime involving moral turp

itude; habitual intemperance in the use of ardent spirits, narcotics or stimulants; unprofessional or dishonorable conduct. "Unprofes sional or dishonorable conduct," as used herein, are declared to mean First, the procuring or aiding or abetting in procuring a criminal abortion; Second, the obtaining of a fee on the assurance that a manifestly incurable disease can be permanently cured; Third; betrayal of a professional secret to the detriment of a patient; Fourth, causing the publication and regulation of advertisements of any medicine or means whereby the monthly periods of women can be regulated or the menses can be re-established, if suppressed; Fifth, causing the publication and regulation of advertisements of any kind relative to diseases of the sexual organs tending to injure the morals of the public.

$4329. Unlawful Practicing-Penalty.-Any person not possessing the qualifications for the practice of medicine, surgery or obstetrics required by the provisions of this act, or any person who has not complied with the provisions of this act who shall engage in the practice of medicine, surgery or obstetrics, or any of the branches thereof in this State, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction thereof shall be fined in any sum not less than fifty ($50) dollars nor more than three hundred ($300) dollars, and costs of prosecution for each offense and shall stand committed until such fine and costs are paid.

§4330. Practitioner Defined-Exceptions.-Any person shall be regarded as practicing medicine within the meaning of this act who shall operate or profess to heal or prescribe for or otherwise treat any phy sical or mental ailment of another. But nothing in this act shall be construed to prohibit gratuitous services in cases of emergency, and this act shall not apply to commissioned surgeons in the United States Army and Navy, nor to nurses in their legitimate occupations, nor to the ad ministration of ordinary household remedies.

§4332. Fees. Every holder of a diploma from a recognized medical college within the state of Nebraska, making application for an examination and certificate under the provisions of this Act, shall pay to the Board of Secretaries prior to his examination the sum of ten ($10.00) dollars. All other persons making such application shall pay to said Board the sum of twenty-five ($25.00) dollars. All such fees shall be equally divided among the four secretaries of the Board as full compen sation for their services and expenses. For the taking of any testimony each of the secretaries shall be entitled to charge and receive such fees. as are provided for notaries public for similar services. No part of such fees shall be paid out of the state treasury.

This act shall take effect and be in force from and after August 1st, 1903.

SPECIAL RULES OF BOARD.

Each applicant for examination must present to the Board letters of recommendation from two registered physicians of the state or such others as may be satisfactory to the Board.

No medical school recognized by the Board unless said school is recognized by the Association of Medical Colleges of the School of Practice to which it belongs.

Applications must be on file at least ten days before the date of examination.