Acts of incorporation, and acts regulating the practice of physic and surgery : with the by-laws and orders of the Massachusetts Medical Society.

  • Massachusetts Medical Society
Date:
1826
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Credit: Acts of incorporation, and acts regulating the practice of physic and surgery : with the by-laws and orders of the Massachusetts Medical Society. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    full power and authority to sue for and recover the same, in any court proper to try the same. 2. And be it further enacted, That the eighth enacting clause of the said incorporating act, making the president, or such other person or persons as shall be elected for the purpose of examining candidates, each and every of them, subject to a fine of one hundred pounds, in case of obstinate refusal to examine any candidate offering himself therefor, be, and it is hereby, repealed. 3. And be it further enacted, That from and after passing this act, whenever the officers ap- pointed for examining candidates for the prac- tice of physic and surgery, shall obstinately and unreasonably refuse to examine such as may ap- ply therefor, respecting their skill in their pro- fession, the officers, so refusing, shall be subject to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds, nor less than twenty pounds, to be sued for and re- covered by the candidate injured, and to his own use, in any court within this commonwealth, proper to try the same. [This act passed, February 10, 1789.]