To the secretaries of the board of health, for taking testimony, same fees as a notary public is allowed for same service (ib., s. 19).
To county clerk, for recording, usual register’s fees for recording (ib., s. 10).
Nevada.
Qualification.—No person can lawfully practise medicine or surgery who has not received a medical education and a diploma from some regularly chartered medical school having a bona fide existence when the diploma was granted (Act of 1875, c. 46, s. 1).
A copy of the diploma must be filed for record with the county recorder of the county in which the person practises, and at the same time the original, or a certificate from the dean of the medical school of which he is a graduate, certifying to his graduation, must be exhibited (ib., s. 2).
The person filing a copy of a diploma or a certificate of graduation must be identified as the person named therein, by the affidavit of two citizens of the county, or his affidavit taken before a notary public or commissioner of deeds for this State, which affidavit must be filed in the office of the county recorder (ib., s. 3).
Penalty.—Practising without complying with this act is a misdemeanor punishable with a fine of from $50 to $500, or imprisonment in the county jail from thirty days to six months, or both, for each offence. Filing a diploma or a certificate of another or a forged affidavit of identification is a felony (ib., s. 4).
Exceptions.—The act does not apply to a person who in an emergency may prescribe or give advice in medicine or surgery in a township where no physician resides, or when no physician or surgeon resides within convenient distance, nor to those who had practised medicine or surgery in the State for ten years next preceding the passage of the act, nor to persons prescribing in their own family (ib., s. 6).
New Jersey.
Board of Examiners.—The State board of medical examiners, appointed by the governor, consists of nine members, persons of recognized professional ability and honor, five of the old school, three of the homœopathic, and one of the eclectic, among whom can be no member of any college or university having a medical department (Act 1890, c. 190, s. 1).