entitling the candidate to practice medicine or surgery in the State of New Jersey. All credentials will be recorded in the Register of the Board, and filed in the State Library at Trenton, as prima facie evidence of matters contained therein.

2. CERTIFIED COPY.-A certified copy of the license issued by this Board accompanies the State certificate and must be filed with the clerk of the county in which the candidate intends to practice. Candidates removing from one county to another must file a certified copy of their license with the clerk of the county to which they remove; duplicate certified copies may be obtained from the Secretary of this Board by forwarding the original license with the fee of $2.00, or from the clerk of the county in which the licentiate is registered.

Candidates for indorsement must not begin the practice of medicine in this State until they have received a certificate of license from this Board and have duly filed a copy of the same; otherwise, they are liable to the penalties of the statute governing the practice of medicine in this State.

NEW MEXICO

LAWS OF 1907. CHAP. 34.

AN ACT TO REGULATE THE PRACTICE OF MEDICINE IN NEW MEXICO AND TO ESTABLISH A BOARD OF HEALTH AND MEDICAL Ex

AMINERS.

Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of New Mexico: SEC. 1.-That a board is hereby established to be called The New Mexico Board of Health and Medical Examiners, who shall be composed of seven reputable physicians of known ability, who are graduates of medical colleges in good standing, as hereinafter defined, and have been registered practitioners in, and bone fide residents of, the Territory of New Mexico for a period of five years next preceding the date of their appointment.

SEC. 2.

Regular meetings of said board shall be held in the Capitol building on the second Mondays of January, April, July and October in each year, and there shall be not less than a two days' session at each meeting. Special meetings may be held at any time..

SEC. 3. The said board shall, upon the production of evidence satis factory to it, license without examination any reputable person who is a graduate of a medical college in good standing, as defined in this act, who has been in the active practice of his profession for two years next preceding the time of making application for such license and who personally appears before the board at a regular meeting. A medical college in good standing for the purpose of this act, is defined to be one which has a standard as high as that required by the Association of the American Medical Colleges, and which has ample clinical facilities. Said board, at its April meeting in each year, shall prepare and cause to be printed and distributed for the information of those interested a copy of this law, together with a list to be prepared by such board of colleges, in good standing, as defined by this act, and such board may revise such list at any regular meeting. The board shall not recognize any college which misrepresents its records, its teaching, its clinical facilities, or as to its students or graduates. No college of any foreign country shall be recognized, except to the same extent as such foreign country recognizes American Colleges, and when said foreign college is of good standing under the laws of New Mexico. No license shall be granted except by the board at a regular meeting, and every applicant for license shall appear in person before such board. Such board may recognize any honorary or emeritus degree conferred upon any foreigner by any

such college as fully and to the same extent as if the applicant were a regular graduate thereof.

SEC. 4. Such board shall also license reputable graduates of colleges in good standing, as defined by this act, who have not been in the active practice of their profession for two years next preceding the time of making application for license; also graduates of any reputable college other than colleges in good standing, as defined by this act, who are of good moral and professional character and conduct, and have served an interneship in a good hospital, or who have taken a six months' postgraduate course in some institution having ample clinical facilities, or who have had three years or more of actual practice since graduation. Provided, That all applicants for licenses, of the classes referred to in this section, shall be examined on the following, and such other subjects as the board may from time to time prescribe: Anatomy and Histology, 10 questions; Chemistry, 5 questions; Etiology and Hygiene, 5 questions; Physiology, 5 questions; Materia Media, 10 questions; Therapeutics, 10 questions; Pathology and Bacteriology, 5 questions; Surgery, 10 questions; Physical Diagnosis, 10 questions; Obstetrics, 10 questions; Gynecology, 5 questions; Practice of Medicine, 10 questions; Medical Ethics and Jurisprudence, 5 questions. An average of seventy-five percent must be obtained at such examination by said applicant, and not less than fifty percent must be obtained on each subject; and board shall allow an applicant credit marks of five percent for five years' active practice: Provided, That the board may grant licenses without examination to those applicants who have been regular licensed physicians, in other states and territories, having qualifications and requirements equivalent to those required in New Mexico. The president and secretary of said board are hereby empowered to administer oaths to applicants and all witnesses and others appearing before said board in any application or proceeding provided for herein. And any person making a false oath or affidavit before such president or secretary in any such proceeding shall be deemed guilty of perjury and be subject to the punishment provided for that crime. Whenever any applicant for license shall have been examined as hereinbefore provided, and shall have failed to reach the required percentage in not more than two of any of the subjects hereinbefore designated, the board may in its discretion allow such applicant another examination on the subjects in which he shall have so failed at its next regular meeting, and may in is discretion issue him a temporary license authorizing him to practice medicine in the Territory of New Mexico until such next meeting and until his second examination shall have been passed upon and decided by such board.

SEC. 5.-Every person holding a certificate of said Board of Health shall have the same recorded in a book provided for that purpose in the office of the probate clerk of the county wherein the practitioner resides, within thirty days after said certificate is issued, and the date of the recording will be indorsed on said certificate. Said certificate, or copy of the registration, must be again recorded in any county to which the

practitioner may remove permanently. And the fact that no such certificate shall be found recorded in th county where any person practicing or offering to practice medicine shall be accepted by the court as prima facie evidence that no such certificate has been issued, and shall throw the burden of proving that he has a certificate upon the defendant in any suit or prosecution begun against him for the violation of the provisions of this act.

SEC. 6. It is hereby made the duty of the board to refuse to license any person guilty of immoral, dishonorable or unprofessional conduct, and said board shall also revoke and annul any license which has been issued by said board, or any previous board, upon satisfactory proof being made to said board that the holder of said certificate or diploma has been guilty of immoral, dishonorable or unprofessional conduct.

SEC. 7. For the purposes of this act the words "practice of medicine" shall mean to open an office for such purpose or announce to the public or any individual in any way, a desire or willingness or readiness to treat the sick or afflicted, or to investigate or diagnose, or offer to investigate or diagnose any physical or mental ailment or disease of any person, or to suggest, recommend, prescribe or direct, for the use of any person, any drug, medicine, appliance or other agency, whether material or not material, for the cure, relief or palliation of any ailment or disease of the mind or body, or for the cure or relief of any wound, fracture or bodily injury or deformity, after having received, or with the intent of receiving therefore, either directly or indirectly, any bonus, gift or compensation. Provided, That nothing in this act shall be construed to prohibit gratuitous services in cases of emergency, or the domestic administration of family remedies, or women from practicing midwifery, and this act shall not apply to surgeons of the United States in the discharge of their official duties, and: Provided, further, that nothing in this act shall be construed so as to interfere with the practice of Osteopathy, Optometry, or Dentistry, as provided for by law.

SEC. 8.-Each applicant for a license to practice medicine in New Mexico shall pay the secretary of this board a fee of twenty-five dollars ($25) at the time of making his application.

SEC. 9. Any person who shall practice medicine, or who shall attempt to practice, without first complying with the provisions of this law, and without being the holder of a license entitling him to practice medicine in New Mexico, shall be punished by a fine, not to exceed one hundred dollars ($100), or imprisonment in the county jail not to exceed ninety days, or by both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court.

NEW YORK

LAW OF 1907. CHAPTER 344.

The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

§1. Definitions as used in this Act,

1. The education department means the education department in the state of New York, as provided for by chapter 40 of the laws of nineteen hundred and four.

2. University means university of the state of New York.

3. Regents means board of regents of the university of the state of New York.

4. Board means the board of medical examiners of the state of New York.

5. Medical examiner means a member of the board of medical examiners of the state of New York.

6. Medical school means any medical school, college, or department of a university, registered by the regents as maintaining a proper medical standard and as legally incorporated.

7. The practice of medicine is defined as follows: A person practicing medicine within the meaning of this act, except as hereinafter stated, who holds himself out as being able to diagnose, treat, operate, or prescribe for any human disease, pain, injury, deformity or physical condition, and who shall either offer or undertake, by any means or method, to diagnose, treat, operate, or prescribe for any human disease, pain, injury, deformity, or physical condition.

8. Physician means a practitioner of medicine.

$2. Qualifications.-No person shall practice medicine, unless registered and legally authorized prior to September first, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, or unless licensed by the regents and registered under article eight of chapter six hundred and sixty-one of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-three and acts amendatory thereto, or unless licensed by the regents and registered as required by this act; nor shall any person practice under this act who has ever been convicted of a felony by any court, or whose authority to practice is suspended or revoked by the regents on recommendation of the state board. The conviction of a felony shall include the conviction of any offense which if committed within the state of New York would constitute a felony under the laws thereof.

$3. The State Board of Medical Examiners.-There shall be a state board of medical examiners of the nine members who shall be appointed by the regents and who shall hold office for three years from August first