To officer before whom affidavit is made, 50 cents (ib., s. 2, 3).
Recording same, $1 (ib., s. 2).
To clerk of court, for copy of original affidavit, 50 cents (ib., s. 2).
To State board of health, for copy of original affidavit, 50 cents (ib., s. 3).
Maine.
Qualification, Penalty.—No person who has not received a medical degree at a public medical institution in the United States, or a license from the Maine Medical Association, shall recover compensation for medical or surgical services, unless previous to such service he had obtained a certificate of good moral character from the municipal officers of the town where he then resided (Rev. Stats., 1883, c. 13, s. 9).
Maryland.
Qualification.—By the Act of 1892, c. 296, s. 1, 39, it is provided that every person not now practising medicine and surgery, who shall hereafter begin to practise medicine and surgery in any of its departments, shall possess the qualifications required by the act.
There are two boards of examiners, representing the medical and chirurgical faculty of the State and the State Homœopathic Medical Society respectively; each consists of seven members, appointed respectively by those societies, physicians actually engaged in the practice of medicine, and of recognized ability and honor; but no physician having a pecuniary interest in the trade of pharmacy can be appointed (ib., s. 2).
Suitable provisions must be made by each examining board to prepare a schedule of written examination upon anatomy, physiology, chemistry, surgery, practice of medicine, materia medica and therapeutics, obstetrics, gynæcology, pathology, medical jurisprudence and hygiene; the same standard of excellence is required from all candidates; in therapeutics and practice, the questions must be in harmony with the tenets of the school selected by the candidate; and the standard of acquirements therein is established by each board itself. The examination must be fundamental in character and such as can be answered in common by all schools of practice (ib., s. 1, 42).