The State board of health, in January, 1894, is to appoint three examining commissions, each of five physicians nominated respectively by the Connecticut Medical Society, the Connecticut Homœopathic Medical Society, and the Connecticut Eclectic Medical Association, and recommended by the said societies respectively as persons competent to serve upon the said examining commissions. Appointments are to be made thereafter from time to time by similar nominations (ib., s. 6 and 7).
The State board of health shall designate when and where the commissions shall hold examinations, but shall call a meeting of a commission within thirty days after the receipt of an application for examination. Applicants shall be examined in anatomy, physiology, medical chemistry, obstetrics, hygiene, surgery, pathology, diagnosis, and therapeutics, including practice and materia medica. Each commission shall frame its own questions and conduct its examinations in writing, and both questions and answers shall be placed on file with the board. Each applicant may choose by which of the commissions he will be examined.
After rejection by any examining commission, the applicant shall not be eligible to examination by another commission until after the expiration of twelve months (ib., s. 8).
On the receipt of duplicate statements, the board shall transmit one of them with a duplicate certificate of registration to the town clerk of the town where the person filing the statement resides, and if he does not reside in the State to the town clerk of the town in the State nearest to his place of residence, and said clerk shall record the same and return them to the person who filed them with the board (ib., s. 9).
The secretary of each medical society shall file with the secretary of the State board of health a list of medical colleges or institutions recognized as legal and reputable by his society or all of such secretaries may agree upon a single list, and such list may be corrected from time to time (ib., s. 10).
Penalty.—The violation of sec. 10 shall be a misdemeanor, punishable with a fine of from $100 to $300 for the first offence, and for each subsequent offence by a fine of from $200 to $500 or imprisonment in the county jail for from thirty to ninety days, or both (ib., s. 11); swearing falsely to a statement is perjury (ib., s. 12).
Fees.—To the State board of health, on filing statements or certificates, $2 (ib., s. 2, 3, 4, 5).
To examining commission, before examination, their expenses not exceeding $10 (ib., s. 8).
To the town clerk, by State board of health out of the amount paid to it, for recording, 25 cents (ib., s. 9).