applicants after license has been issued to them, and would constitute valuable record thus filed.

The Board believes that inasmuch as it is charged with the duty of enforcing the medical law and instituting prosecutions for violations thereof, it should be better equipped by the provisions of the law for the performance of this duty.

INDIANA MEDICAL LAW OF 1897, WITH AMEND

MENTS OF 1899.

[Original law took effect April 14, 1897.]

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Indiana, That it shall hereafter be unlawful for any person to practice medicine, surgery or obstetrics in this State without first obtaining a license so to do, as hereinafter provided.

Sec. 2. After this law goes into effect, any person desiring to begin the practice of medicine, surgery or obstetrics in this State, shall procure from the State Board of Medical Registration and Examination a certificate that such person is entitled to a license to practice medicine, surgery and obstetrics in the State of Indiana; and in order to procure such certificate the applicant shall submit to the State Board of Medical Registration and Examination his diploma, with an affidavit setting forth the time and number of terms, duration of each term, applicant was required to be in attendance at said school in order to complete said course of study, and that the affiant is the person to whom such diploma issued. Such application shall be accompanied by the affidavit of two freeholders resident in the same county in which the applicant resides, stating that the applicant is the person named in the accompanying diploma and application for a certificate. All diplomas received by the Board shall be returned to the person owning the same, and for failure to return any diploma to its lawful owner within a reasonable time the secretary of said Board shall be liable on his bond for damages in the sum of twenty-five dollars ($25). Such applicant shall pay to said Board the sum of ten dollars ($10) at the time of making such application. All persons who were practicing medicine, surgery and obstetrics in the State of Indiana on March 8, 1897, and have not complied with the provisions of the law, and desiring to continue the same, shall, on or before July

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11, 1899, obtain a certificate that they are entitled to do so by presenting to the State Board of Medical Registration and Examination the license possessed by them at the time of the passage of this law, together with an affidavit that they are the legal possessors of the same, and the persons mentioned therein, and such applicant shall pay to the Board the sum of one dollar ($1) at the time of making such application. The Board shall thereupon issue to such applicant a certificate, which when presented to the County Clerk of the proper county, shall entitle the holder to a license to practice medicine, surgery and obstetrics in the State of Indiana. In the event an applicant for a certificate from the State Board of Medical Registration and Examination shall present a diploma from a medical college which is not recognized as maintaining a sufficiently high grade or standard of medical education as defined and fixed in the records of the Board, the applicant shall have the privilege of being examined as to his qualifications to practice medicine, surgery and obstetrics in such manner as the Board shall provide, and if he shall pass an examination satisfactory to the Board he shall receive a certificate, the same as if he had presented a satisfactory diploma and other evidences of qualifications for the practice of medicine. But if he should fail to pass such examination he shall be permitted to submit to another examination within twelve months from the time of the first examination. He shall pay to the State Board of Medical Registration and Examination the sum of twenty-five dollars ($25): Provided, however, That payment of said sum of twenty-five dollars ($25) shall entitle him to a re-examination in case of failure at the first or any subsequent examination: And provided further, That if such applicant shall fail to pass the examination prescribed by such Board of Medical Registration and Examination, he shall have the right to an appeal to the Circuit or Superior Court of the proper county, requiring such Board to show cause why such applicant should not be permitted to practice medicine, surgery or obstetrics in the State of Indiana, upon the applicant giving a good and satisfactory bond to be approved by the court, to secure all costs of suit should the appeal be determined against him. Upon the receipt of the certificate by the applicant from the State Board of Medical Registration and Examination, the applicant shall, upon the presentation thereof to the Clerk of the county in which he resides, receive from the

County Clerk a license to practice medicine, surgery and obstetrics within the State of Indiana. The person receiving such license shall pay to the County Clerk fifty cents ($0.50) as his fee for issuing and recording such license as hereinafter provided. In case of change of residence from one county to another within this State, the holder of a physician's license shall obtain a new license in the county where he proposes to reside, by filing with the County Clerk the license obtained by him in the county in which he last resided, in the same manner as provided for on the presentation of his certificate from the State Board of Medical Registration and Examination, and the Clerk shall issue him a new license.

Sec. 3. It shall be the duty of the Clerk of the county in which an applicant resides to issue to the person presenting such certificate, as hereinbefore provided for, a license under his official seal in the following form:

State of Indiana, County of...

SS.:

Clerk of the Circuit Court County, in the State of Indiana, do hereby

.has complied with the

laws of the State of Indiana relating to the practice of medicine, surgery and obstetrics in the county and State aforesaid. Witness my hand and seal of said Court this.... of...

189..

..day

The County Clerk shall enter of record the name, age, place and birth, address, school or system of medicine to which said applicant belongs, and the person so registering shall subscribe to and verify by oath before such Clerk an affidavit concerning such facts, which, if willfully false, shall subject the affiant to conviction for perjury. The County Clerk shall furnish annually, on the first day of January, to the State Board of Medical Registration and Examination, upon blanks furnished by said Board, a duplicate list of all certificates received and licenses issued by him during the preceding year, and shall include therein the date of issue of said license, and the name, age and residence of the person receiving the same.

Sec. 4. Within thirty days after this law goes into effect, it shall be the duty of the Governor of the State of Indiana to appoint a State Board of Medical Registration and Examination, composed