CHaP. 163.—An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1747 and
1750 of the code of Virginia, in regard to the examination ofap-
plicants for the practice of medicine and surgery, and to repeal
an act entitled an act to amend sections 1747 and 1750 of the
code of Virginia of 1887, in regard to examination of applicants
for the practice of medicine and surgery, approved 19th Janua-

ry, 1892
Approved February 4, 1892.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia,
That sections seventeen hundred and forty-seven and seven-
teen hundred and fifty of the code of Virginia, of eighteen
hundred and eighty-seven, be amended and re-enacted so
as to read as follows:

§ 1747. Examination of applicants for practice of medt-
cine—Re-examination—Fees of board.—It shall be the duties
of said board, at any of its meetings, to examine all per-
sons making application to them, who shall desire to com-
mence the practice of medicine or surgery in this state;
and when an applicant shall have passed an examination
satisfactory as to proficiency before the board in session,
the president thereof shall grant to such applicant certifi-
cate to that effect. A fee of five dollars shall be paid to
said board, through such officers or members as it may
designate, by each applicant before such examination is
had. Incase any applicant shall fail to pass a satisfactory
examination before the board, he shall not be permitted to
stand any further examination within the next three
months thereafter, nor shall he have again to pay the fee
prescribed as aforesaid: provided, however, no applicant
shall be rejected upon his examination on account of his
adherence to any particular school of medicine or system
of practice, nor on account of his views as to the method
of treatment and cure of diseases; and provided further,
that when in the opinion of the president of the board,
any applicant has been prevented by good cause from ap-
pearing before the board, he shall appoint a committee of
three members, who shall examine such applicant, and
may, if they see fit, grant him a certificate, which shall
have the same force and effect as though granted him by
the full board, until the applicant shall have an opportu-
nity to appear before the said board, when, if applicant
failing to appear for examination, the president of the
board shall have authority to revoke said certificate, or in
any case the president shall have authority, at his discre-
tion, to grant a special permit to any applicant to practice
medicine, until he shall have an opportunity to appear
before the board in session, for examination, which shall
be revokable at the discretion of the president. The said
hoard shall have in their discretion authority to accept, in
lieu of examination of an applicant, a certificate from the
medical board of any other state, showing that said appli-
cant has passed a satisfactory examination as to his profi-
ciency, and obtained license from said board to practice
medicine and surgery in said state.

8 1750. Who prohibited from practicing medicine without
certificate—No person who shall have commenced the prac-
tice of medicine or surgery since the first day of January,
eighteen hundred and ninety-two, or who shall hereafter
commence the practice of the same, shall practice as a phy-
sician or surgeon, for compensation, without having first
obtained a certificate and caused the same to be recorded
as aforesaid. Any person violating the provisions of
this section, shall be fined not less than fifty nor more
than five hundred dollars for each offence, and be debarred
from receiving any compensation for services rendered as
such physician or surgeon. Any person who shall have
been assessed with a license tax, as a physician or surgeon,
by any commissioner of the revenue in this state, at
any time prior to the passage of this act, shall be taken as
having commenced the practice of medicine or surgery
prior to that date; but any person who shall not have
been so assessed, shall be taken as not having commenced
such practice prior to that date.

2.. The act entitled an act to amend sections seventeen
hundred and forty-seven and seventeen hundred and fifty
of the code of Virginia of eighteen hundred and eighty-
seven, in regard to the examination of applicants for the
practice of medicine and surgery, approved nineteenth
January, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, is hereby re-
pealed.

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