Chap. 246.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to amend
and re-enact sections 1744, 1745, 1746, 1747, 1749 1750 and 1752, of chap-
ter 77 of the Code, regulating the practice of medicine and surgery in Vir-
ginia, approved March 7, 1900.

Approved February 16, 1901.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
seventeen hundred and forty-seven of the code of Virginia, as amended
and re-enacted by an act approved March seventh, nineteen hundred,
entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections seventeen hundred and
forty-four, seventeen hundred and forty-five, seventeen hundred and
forty-six, seventeen hundred and forty-seven, seventeen hundred and
forty-nine, seventeen hundred and fifty, seventeen hundred and fifty-two,
of chapter seventy-scven of the code, regulating the practice of medicine
and surgery in Virginia, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as fol-
lows:

$1747. Ixamination of applicants for the practice of medicine and
surgery; re-examination; fees of boards.—First—lIt shall be the duty
of the said board, at any of its said meetings, to examine all persons
making application to them, who shall desire to commence the practice
of medicine or surgery in this state: provided, that on or after the first
day of July, nineteen hundred, said applicant shall produce before said
hoard a diploma, or other satisfactory evidence of his graduation, in some
medical college chartered by the state or territory in which the same is
situated: provided. that any undergraduate taking a graded course in any
regularly chartered medical college shall be entitled to an examination
on such branch or branches as he or she may present a certificate from
the said college of having passed a satisfactory examination, and having
once passed a satisfactory examination on each of such branches before
the state board of medical examiners, no further examination shall be
required on such branch or branches; but an applicant failing to pass
a satisfactory examination on any of such branches, shall not be permitted
to be examined on such branch or branches until he or she presents a
diploma of graduation as doctor of medicine from some regularly-char-
tered college of medicine.

And when an applicant shall have passed an examination satisfactory
as to proficiency hefore the board in session, the president thereof shall
grant to such applicant a certificate to that effect. A fee of ten dollars
shall be paid to said board, through such officers or members as it may
designate, by each applicant, before such examination is allowed.

Second, Re-examination—And in case any applicant, who has pro-

duced before the said board satisfactory evidence of his graduation in
some medical college chartered by the state or territory in which the same
is situated, shall have heretofore failed, or shall hereafter fail, to pass a
satisfactory examination on all of the branches submitted by the board
in any regular examination held by it. he or she shall be permitted to
stand a further examination on any branch or branches in which he or
she shall have failed to pass the said examination, at anv subsequent
examination held by the board within six months thereafter; but no
further examination shall he required on such branch or branches as he
or she shall have passed a satisfactory examination on: and when such
applicant shall have finally passed a satisfactory examination on all of the
assigned branches, then the president of the board shall present to such
applicant a certificate to that effect.

But such applicant shall not have again to pay the fee prescribed as
aforesaid: provided, however, no applicant shall be rejected upon his ex-
amination on account of his adherence to anv particular school of medi-
cine 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 pre-
vented by good cause from appearing before the board, he shall have au-
thority, in his discretion, to grant a special permit to such applicant to
practice medicine or surgery until he shall have an opportunity to appear
before the board in session for examination, which said special permit
shall be revocable at the discretion of the president; and in no case shall
it entitle the holder thereof to practice after the next regular meeting of
said board.
* The said board shall have, in their discretion, authority to accept in
lieu ef examination of an applicant a diploma or other satisfactory evi-
dence’ of the graduation of the applicant in some medical college char-
tered by the state or territory in which the same is situated, and a certi-
ficate from the examining board of any other state or territory of the
United States or of the District of Columbia, showing that such appli-
‘ant has passed a satisfactory examination as to his proficiency, and ob-
tained license from said board to practice medicine and surgery in said
state, territory or district: provided, that any person who was examined
by the state examining board, prior to January first, nineteen hundred,
and whose fee for such examination was duly paid, but who failed to
pass said examination, shall have the right and privilege of taking the
examination before the state board, notwithstanding the provisions of
this act.