Chap. 1023.—An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 90 and 93 of an act
approved March 6, 1890, entitled an act to provide for the assessment of
taxes On persons, property, and incomes, and on licenses to transact busi-
ness, and imposing taxes thereon for the support of the government and
public free schools, and to pay the interest on the public debt, and pre-
scribing the mode of obtaining licenses to sell wine, ardent spirits, malt
liquors, or any mixture thereof, in cases where a court certificate is required.

Approved March 7, 1900.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sections
ninety and ninety-three of an act approved March sixth, eighteen hun-
dred and ninety, entitled an act to provide for the assessment of taxes
on persons, property, and incomes, and on licenses to transact. business,
and imposing taxes thereon for the support of the government and pub-
lie free schools,and to pay the interest on the public debt,and prescribing
the mode of obtaining licenses to sell wine, ardent spirits, malt liquors,
or anv mixture thereof, in cases where a court certificate 1s required, be
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

$90, No person shall. without a leense authorized by law, practice
as attornev-at-law, physician, surgeon, or dentist; and no person who
shall hereafter apply for license to practice as a physician or surgeon
shall have such license granted to him unless at the time of such appli-
cation he shall exhibit to the commissioner of the revenue to whom
such application is made a certificate from the president of the state
board of medical examiners that such person has passed a satisfactory
examination before said board, or a special permit from president of
said board, or shall file with him an affidavit that such applicant com-
menced the practice of medicine or surgery in this state prior to the
first day of January, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, which affidavit
shall be subseribed and sworn to by such applicant. Any person who
shall make a false oath in such allidavit shall be deemed guilty of
perjury, and lable to all the penalties prescribed therefor.

§ 93. No person shall practice as a physician, surgeon, or dentist for
compensation, or sell any medicine, salve, liniment, or ‘compound of a like
kind, unless he be a licensed merchant, whether he be the manufacturer
thereof or not, without a license: but a license to practice either medicine
or surgery shall confer the privilege of practicing both of said profes-
sions; and a license granted to practice in anv county or corporation
shall authorize such physician, surgeon, or dentist to practice through-
out the commonwealth without additional license. Any person violating
any of the provisions of this section, or who shall practice in either
of the professions named without having first obtained a license there-
for, shall pay a fine of not less than thirtv dollars nor more than one
hundred dollars for each offense, and shall be debarred from recovering
any compensation for such services by action, suit, motion, or warrant
in anv of the courts of the commonwealth. And any commissioner of
the revenue who shall grant a license to practice as a physician or
surgeon to any person who shall not have complied with the provisions
of section ninety of this act shall be deemed guiltv of a misdemeanor,
and shall be subject to a fine of fifty dollars for each offense.

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