which are contained not less than fifty beds, under the charge of not less than two physicians or surgeons, for a period of not less than one year and a half, or three periods of not less than six months each;

6. That he attended six cases of labour and compounded medicine for six months.

Each six months' course shall have consisted of one hundred and twenty lectures, except in the case of clinical medicine, clinical surgery and medical jurisprudence.

Of the four years' study required by this section, three six months' sessions at least shall be passed in attendance upon lectures at a university, college or incorporated school of medicine recognized by the Board.

The first of such courses shall have been attended during the session immediately succeeding the preliminary examination, and the last, during the fourth year of study, and the candidates shall undergo an examination on the final subjects of the curriculum, at the end of the session in the fourth year of study. 42-43 V., c. 37, s. 15; 45 V., c. 32, s. 4.

3986. All persons obtaining the license to practise from Members of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of the Province of College. Quebec shall be styled members of the College, but shall not be eligible as governors within a period of four years from the

date of their admission as members; and the election of Governors. governors shall be made under such rules and regulations therefor, and in such manner as the Board of Governors shall

ordain.

The members of the College shall pay the sum of two dollars Contribution a year. 42-43 V., c. 37, s. 16. by members.

midwifery.

3987. The Provincial Medical Board has power to make Admission of rules and regulations respecting the admission of women to women for the study and practice of midwifery in this Province, and determines the degree, the nature and extent of knowledge and qualifications required from them; provided always that all women who, on the 31st October, 1879, were legally quali- Proviso. fied to practise as midwives in this Province, whilst required to conform to such rules and regulations as may hereafter be made by the College of Physicians and Surgeons of the Province of Quebec, respecting them, retain that right.

Nothing in this article or in the by-laws which may be Women made shall prevent women in the country from practising midwifery in practising midwifery or assisting at accouchements, as is often the case, the country, without being admitted to the study or the practice of mid- excepted. wifery; but they must obtain a certificate from a duly licensed Proviso as to physician, certifying that they have the necessary knowledge. certificate. 42-43 V., c. 37, s. 17.

3988. The Provincial Medical Board shall cause to be Register of kept by the registrar, a register, in which are successively practitioners. entered the names of all persons who have been duly licensed and registered under the law, and who have complied with the

Who are qualified.

Examination of register.

Registrar, his duties.

Publication of register

Name of register. Value of certified copies.

Effect of ab

in register.

Proviso.

provisions hereinafter contained, and with the rules and regulations made by the Provincial Medical Board, respecting the qualifications required of persons practising medicine, surgery and midwifery in the Province;

And those persons only, whose names are inscribed in the above mentioned register, are deemed to be qualified and licensed for such practice.

Such register may, at all times, be inspected by any duly registered practitioner in the Province, or by any other person. 42-43 V., c. 37, s. 18.

3989. The registrar shall keep the register correctly, in accordance with the provisions of this section, and the orders and regulations of the Provincial Medical Board.

He, from time to time, makes the necessary alterations in the addresses or qualifications of the persons registered, and performs the other duties imposed upon him by the Provincial Medical Board. 42-43 V., c. 37, s. 19.

3990. Under the direction of the Board of Governors, the registrar of the College causes to be printed, published, and distributed to the members of the College, from time to time, a copy of the register of the names of the registered physicians and surgeons, which he places in alphabetical order, inserting their names and surnames, respective residences, medical title, diplomas and qualifications conferred by the College or other medical body, with the dates of the

same.

Such register is called the "Quebec Medical Register."

A printed copy of such register, certified under the hand of such registrar as such, is prima facie evidence before all courts, that the persons therein named and entered have been registered in accordance with the provisions of this section.

The absence of the name of any person from such copy is sence of name prima facie proof that such person has not been registered in accordance with the requirements of this section; provided always that, in case a person's name does not appear on such printed copy, a copy or an extract from the register, certified by the registrar of the College, of the entry of such person's name on the register, shall be proof that such person is duly registered. 42-43 V., c, 37, s. 20.

Proof of pay

ment of contributions.

Effect of

register.

3991. A certificate, under the hand of the registrar, that any member whose name appears on the register, has paid his annual contributions to the college, shall be received in all courts of justice as prima facie evidence that such payments have been made. 42-43 V., c. 37, s. 20.

3992. Any person required or entitled to be registered neglecting to under this section, who neglects or omits to be so registered, shall not be entitled to practise medicine, surgery, midwifery or to claim any of the rights and privileges conferred by this section, and shall be liable to all the penalties imposed by it.

upon any person practising medicine, surgery or midwifery, without being registered as required, saving the right of certain members holding a license from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Lower Canada. 42-43 V., c. 37, s. 22; 45 V., c. 32, ss. 5 and 6.

may practise

3993. Any person who has attended medical lectures, Persons who during three sessions of any medical school in the British pos- wayout sessions, and who has been actually engaged in the practice of examination. the profession of medicine for a period of over thirty years in this Province, may, on proof of these facts, to the satisfaction of the Provincial Medical Board, and producing, moreover, a certificate signed by two resident medical practitioners, in the neighborhood where he has practised, that he has succeeded in his profession, and is entitled to the consideration of the Board, be entitled to a license to practise medicine, surgery and midwifery in this Province and to registration without examination. 42-43 V., c. 37, s. 24.

recovery of

3994. No person, unless otherwise authorized, shall be Registration required for entitled to recover any charge, in any court of law, for any medical or surgical advice, or for professional services or for charges, &c. the performance of any operation, or for any medicine which he may have prescribed or supplied, or be entitled to any of the rights or privileges conferred by this section, unless he prove that he is registered according to law and has paid his annual contribution to the College. 42-43 V., c. 37, s. 25.

certificates.

3995. No certificate required by this section or any act Idem for now in force, from any physician or surgeon or medical practi- giving of tioner, is valid, unless the person signing the same be registered under this section. 42-43 V., c. 37, s. 26.

3996. If the registrar be convicted of a felony, he shall be Disqualifica-disqualified from again holding any office in the College. 42-43 tion of regis V., c. 37, s. 21.

trar.

cian.

3997. Any registered member of the medical profession, Disqualificawho has been convicted of felony, in any court of justice, tion of physithereby forfeits his right to registration, and the Provincial Medical Board causes his name to be erased from the register. In case a person, known to have been convicted of felony, presents himself for registration, the registrar shall refuse such registration. 42-43 V., c. 37, s. 27.

§ 4.-Penalties and Prosecutions.

3998. Any person not entitled to be registered in this Illegally Province, who is convicted, upon the oath of one or more wit- practisingnesses, of having therein practised medicine, surgery or midwifery in contravention of the provisions of this section, for hire, money, goods, or effects generally whatsoever, or in the hope of receiving any money, goods or effects, or in the hope

Fine.

Persons

illegally assuming title, &c

of a reward or who receives any reward whatsoever, for practising medicine, surgery or midwifery, shall incur a penalty of fifty dollars.

2. A like penalty of fifty dollars is incurred by every person who assumes the title of doctor, physician or surgeon, or any other name implying that he is legally authorized to practise medicine, surgery or midwifery, in this Province, if unable to establish the fact by legal proof, as required by the present section, and the other laws of the country.

Or seeking to 3. Any person who, in an advertisement published in a lead his qualification to be newspaper, or in written or printed circulars, or on business supposed. cards, or on signs, assumes a title, name or designation of such a nature as to lead the public to suppose or believe that he is duly registered or qualified as a practitioner of medicine, surgery or midwifery, or any one of these branches of the medical profession, or any person who offers or gives his services as physician, surgeon or accoucheur, for hire, gain or hope of reward, if he be not duly authorized and registered in the Province, shall, in each such case, incur a like penalty of fifty dollars.

Fine.

Onus of Proof.

Application

of fines.

Physicians to

witnesses.

4. In every prosecution under this section, the proof of registration is incumbent upon the party prosecuted.

5. The penalties imposed by this section are recoverable with costs, and the same may be sued for and recovered by the College of Physicians and Surgeons of the Province of Quebec, under its corporate name, and belong to the said corporation for the use thereof.

And neither in any such suit nor in any other civil action be competent to or in which the said corporation may be a party or interested, shall any member of the corporation be deemed incompetent as a witness by reason of his being such member.

Method of recovering penalties.

Issue of warrant of imprisonment.

Certified copy

be evidence.

The penalties imposed by this section may be recovered with costs by an ordinary civil suit in the name of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of the Province of Quebec, before any Circuit Court of the county or of the district in which the defendant is domiciled, or in which the offence was committed; and the court, if the proof is sufficient, condemns the defendant to pay a penalty of fifty dollars, in addition to the costs, within a delay which it determines, and to an imprisonment of sixty days in the common gaol of the district, in default of his satisfying the condemnation within such delay.

The warrant of imprisonment, in such cases, shall issue under the hand of the clerk of the said court, on a written application of the advocate of the prosecutor, and may, mutatis mutandis, be according to form (01) in the schedule to chapter 178 of the Revised Statutes of Canada, and shall be executed in the usual way. 42-43 V., c. 37, s. 28; 45 V., c. 32, ss. 7 and 8; 49-50 V., c. 34, s. 1.

3999. In all cases where proof of registration under this of register, to section is required, the production of a printed or other copy or extract from the register, certified under the hand of the registrar of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of the

Province of Quebec, for the time being, is sufficient evidence, in lieu of the production of the original register, that all persons therein named are registered practitioners; and any certificate upon such printed or other copy of the register, or extract from such register, purporting to be signed by any person, in his capacity of registrar of the College, under this section, shall be prima facie evidence that such person is such registrar, without any proof of his signature, or of his being in fact such registrar. 42-43 V., c. 37, s. 29.

§ 5.-Miscellaneous.

4000. All by-laws, rules and regulations heretofore made Present by the said College of Physicians and Surgeons of the Province by-laws. of Quebec remain in force until repealed or modified under the provisions of this section. 42-43 V., c. 37, s. 30.

officers for

4001. It is lawful for the president of the College, if he Replacement deem it expedient so to do, at any time, under his hand and of certain seal, to authorize, name, constitute and appoint any person or certain purpersons other than any of the officers of the said College, whom poses. he may select, to institute any proceedings against any person who may be supposed to have infringed any of the provisions of this section, and to collect any and all sums of money payable to the said College by any person. 42-43 V., c. 37, s. 34.

4002. Nothing in this section contained shall be construed Rights of to affect the rights of any persons, under the provisions of the homopafollowing section of this chapter. 42-43 V., c. 37, s. 35.

thists not affected.

SECTION III.

HOMEOPATIHSTS.

§1.-Incorporation of the Montreal Homeopathic Association.

4003. The Homoeopathic Physicians and Surgeons of the Corporation Province form a corporation under the name of "The Montreal and name. Homeopathic Association." 28 V., c. 59, s. 1.

4004. The corporation has power to establish, in the city May establish of Montreal, a dispensary to give medical advice, medicine and a dispensary. surgical aid to the necessitous poor in accordance with the principles and practice of homoeopathy. 28 V., c. 59, s. 2.

4005. The corporation also has power to establish and May establish maintain, whenever it so decides, a homoeopathic hospital in an hospital. the city of Montreal for the reception of persons needing medical or surgical treatment. 28 V., c. 59, s. 3.

4006. The corporation also has power to establish a college, May provide and to appoint professors to teach, by regular courses of lec- for teaching homœopathy. tures, the principles and practice of medicine and materia