Chap. 474.—An ACT to amend and re-enact sections I, 2 and 3, of
chapter 65 of the Acts of Assembly 1883-84, entitled an act to regu-
late the practice of medicine and surgery, approved January 31,
1884.

Approved March 6, 1886.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
sections one, two and three, of chapter sixty-five, of the Acts
of assembly, of eighteen hundred and eighty-three and eighty-
four, entitled an act to regulate the practice of medicine and
surgery, approved January thirty-first, eighteen hundred and
eighty-four, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as fol-
lows:

§ 1. Be it enacted by thé general assembly of Virginia, That
there shall be for this state a board of medical examiners, con-
sisting of three members from each congressional district in the
state, and two from the state at large, and in addition five
homeopathic physicians from the state at large, whose term of
office shall be four years, or until their successors are appointed
and qualified. The term of office of the board first appointed
shall commence on the first day of January, eighteen hundred
and eighty-five.

§ 2. The said board shall consist of men learned in medicine
and surgery, and shall be appointed by the governor on the
first day of November, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, and
every fourth year thereafter, from a list of names to be recom-
mended by the medical society of Virginia. He shall also ap-
point five homeopathic physicians who may be nominated to
him by the Hahnemann Medical Society of the Old Dominion,
in the manner hereafter provided. Vacancies occurring in such
board for unexpired terms, shall be filled in the same manner.
Such recommendations shall be by the votes of a majority
present at some meeting of the said societies, and the same
shall be certified to the governor by the president and secretary
of such meeting: provided, however, that in case the governor
shall consider any of the persons so recommended unsuitable,
he may decline to appoint such person or persons, and com-
municate the fact to the presiding officers of the society pre-

senting the nomination, and such society shall, within ninety
days thereafter, make other recommendations in the manner
hereinafter prescribed, which shall stand on the same footing in
all respects as those first made: and provided further, that if
such society fail to make such recommendations prior to the
time of appointment, or within ninety days, aforesaid, then the
governor shall appoint such board, either in.whole or in part,
without regard to such recommendations. If any of said ex-
aminers shall cease to reside in the district for which he was
appointed, it shall vacate his office.

e 3 The members of said board of medical examiners shall
qualify and take the usual oath of office before the county or
corporation court of the county or corporation in which they
shall respectively reside. The officers of said board shall be a
president, vice-president and secretary (who shall also act as
treasurer); said officers to be members of and elected by said
board. The first meeting of the same shall be at Richmond,
at such time as the governor shall notify the members by mail
to assemble. Subsequent regular meetings shall be held at
such times and places as the board may prescribe, and special
meetings may be held upon the call of the president and five
members, but there shall not be less than one regular meeting
per annum. Eleven members of said board shall be a quorum.
Said board may organize at its first meeting, and may, at its
first or any subsequent meeting, prescribe rules, regulations,
and by-laws for its own proceedings and government, and for
the examination of candidates for the practice of medicine and
surgery by its individual members.

2. This act shall be in force from its passage.