CHAPTER 27.

OF ASSESSMENTS FOR REPAIRS OF MEETING HOUSES.

CHAP. 27.

meeting houses

1. When funds are required for repairing, finishing, or Repairs of painting any meeting-house or church, the proprietors provided for by thereof, at a public meeting whereof notice shall have assessment. been previously given during the time of divine service at such meeting-house or church, on three several Sundays, may by vote of three-fifths of the proprietors present at such meeting, declare what repairs are necessary and the amount required therefor, and may also nominate three or more persons a committee to assess and apportion the sum so voted on the several pews of the meeting-house or church, according to the relative size and value of such pews, at an equitable rate; of which assessment and apportionment public notice shall be given by posting up the same in some conspicuous place in the meeting-house or church, and also on the door thereof for three successive Sundays on which divine service shall be performed thereat, next after the making thereof.

ment not paid,

time.

2. If after such notice the persons interested in any of Where assessthe pews shall not pay the sums assessed on such pews pews may be let within three months thereafter, the committee, after notice for a limited having been given on the previous Sunday immediately after divine service, may proceed to let such pews at auction for such period, not exceeding ten years, as may be sufficient to pay the sum so assessed thereon respectively; or they may on giving the like notice let such pews from year to year until the rate or assessment be fully paid, so that such letting shall not extend beyond the term of ten years.

given; rent re

val.

3. The persons who shall so lease the pews shall be Possession, how put in possession thereof by the committee, and shall have coverable: the exclusive occupation thereof during the term of their mode of remolease; and the committee may sue for and recover the rent, and shall have power to hold or occupy such pews, and to eject any person illegally in possession thereof.

ment.

4. If the money arising from the leasing of the pews Further asseesshall not amount to the assessment thereon, the committee may make a new assessment in the same way as the original amount is hereby directed to be assessed.

affect Epis opa

5. Nothing in this Chapter shall extend to any church Chapter not to or chapel belonging to or connected with the Church of lians or WesEngland, or to any meeting-house belonging solely to the leyans. denomination of Christians called Wesleyan Methodists.

CHAP. 28.

TITLE VI.

OF THE PUBLIC HEALTH.

Provincial

how constituted.

CHAPTER 28

OF PRACTITIONERS IN MEDICINE AND SURGERY.

1. The Provincial Medical Board shall continue to me lical board, consist of nine regularly qualified medical practitioners, of not less than seven years standing, five nominated and appointed by the Governor in Council and four by the Nova Scotia Medical Society; of which Board any five shall be a quorum for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this Chapter.

Filling of vacancies in board.

Proviso.

Appointment of
Becretary.

2. Every vacancy in such Board, whether caused by death, resignation, removal from office or otherwise, shall be filled up by the body or authority who shall have nominated and appointed the person causing such vacancy, with as little delay as possible; so that, as far as practicable, the Board shall always consist of nine members, five appointed by the Governor in Council, and four by the Nova Scotia Medical Society. In case of the dissolution of such Society or their neglect or refusal to fill up a vacancy, which they are empowered and directed by this section to supply, within three months after such vacancy shall have been caused, the remaining members of the Provincial Medical Board shall nominate and appoint a properly qualified person to fill such vacancy, in the place and stead of the Nova Scotia Medical Society. In case of a similar neglect or refusal on the part of the Governor in Council, the Board shall have and exercise the like power. Provided, that no person shall be capable of being appointed to such Board who shall not have the qualifications prescribed in the last preceding section for the first nine members of the Board.

3. The Provincial Medical Board, or a majority of the members composing the same, shall appoint from time to time a regularly qualified medical practitioner resident at Halifax to act as Secretary of the Board, who shall attend the meetings of the Board, and keep a record of the proceedings of the same in a book or books, to be by him provided for that purpose, together with all such matters and things as to the Board shall appertain.

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4. The Secretary shall also be the Registrar of the CHAP 28. Provincial Medical Board, and shall be paid such salary, Secretary to be out of the moneys to be received as hereinafter provided, also registrar. as the Board shall, with the approval of the Governor in tary and regisCouncil, determine.

Salary of Secre

trar.

ter-Copies of

shall be received

courts that persons therein

named are duly

registered, &c.

5. The Registrar of the Board shall, before the first day Publication of of May in every year, cause to be printed and published in medical registhe Royal Gazette of this Province, and in such other such register manner as the Board shall appoint, a correct register of as evidence in all the names in alphabetical order according to the surnames, with the respective residences (in the form set forth in Schedule A to this Chapter, or to the like effect) and medical titles, diplomas, and qualifications conferred by any college or body with the dates thereof of all persons appearing on the register as existing on the first day of January in such year; and such register shall be called "The Medical Register;" and a copy of such register for the time being, purporting to be so printed and published as aforesaid, shall be primâ facie evidence in all courts and before all justices of the peace and others that the persons therein specified are registered according to the provisions of this Chapter; and the absence of the name of any person from such copy shall be primâ facie evidence that such person is not registered according to the provisions of this Chapter. Provided always, that in the Proviso. case of any person whose name does not appear in such copy, a certified copy, under the hand of the Registrar of the Board, of the entry of the name of such person on the register, shall be evidence that such person is registered under the provisions of this Chapter.

amination.

6. Hereafter no person shall begin or enter upon the Preliminary exstudy of physic, surgery, or midwifery, for the purpose of qualifying himself to practise the same in this Province, unless he shall have obtained from the Provincial Medical Board a certificate that he has satisfactorily passed a matriculation or preliminary examination in the subjects specified in Schedule B to this Chapter.

matriculation

7. No candidate shall be admitted to such matriculation Qualification for or preliminary examination unless he shall have at least examination. fourteen days previous to such examination given notice to the Registrar of the Board of his intention to present himself for such examination, and transmitted to the Registrar a certificate showing that he has completed his sixteenth year; and shall before the examination have paid a fee of five dollars to the Registrar.

name must be

8. Subject to the exceptions hereinafter made no per- Practitioner's son shall practise physic, surgery or midwifery in Nova entered on regScotia, unless his name shall be registered in the book of istry book, and registry of the Provincial Medical Board, and unless he shall have received from such Board a license to practise.

license procured.

CHAP. 28.

Qualification for

can register his

name and pro

cure license to practise.

9. No person shall be entitled to have his name entered on the register of the Provincial Medical Board, or person before he to receive a license to practise from such Board unless he shall satisfy the Board that he has passed the matriculation or preliminary examination; that after passing such examination he has followed his studies during a period of not less than four years, (one of which may be under the direction of one or more general practitioners duly li censed); that during such four years he has attended at some University, College, or Incorporated School of Medicine in good standing courses of lectures amounting together to not less than twelve months, on general Anatomy, on practical Anatomy, on Surgery, on the Practice of Medicine, on Midwifery, on Chemistry, on Materia Medica, and Pharmacy, and on the Institutes of Medicine or Physiology, and one three months' course of Medical Jurisprudence; that he has attended the general practice of an Hospital, in which there are contained not less than fifty beds under the charge of not less than two Physicians or Surgeons, for a period not less than one year, or two periods of not less than six months each; that he has also attended two three months' courses, or one six months' course, of Clinical Medicine, and the same of Clinical Surgery; that he has, after examination in the subjects of the course, obtained a degree or diploma from such University, College or Incorporated Medical School; or for want of such degree or diploma, that he has satisfactorily passed an examination in the various branches hereinbefore specified before examiners to be appointed by the Provincial Medical Board; that he is not less than twenty-one years of age; and that he has paid to the Registrar of the Board a fee of ten dollars. Provided that the Provincial Medical Board shall have power, subject to the approval of the Governor in Council, to make such alterations in the foregoing curriculum as may from time to time be required.

Proviso.

Last preceding section not to

cases.

10. The last preceding section shall not apply to any apply in certain person in actual practice, and duly registered under the provisions of Chapter 56 of the Revised Statutes, Third Series, who shall be entitled to be registered and to receive a license to practise under this Chapter without payment of any fee: and, notwithstanding the provisions of such section, any person upon producing to the Provincial Medical Board conclusive evidence, that he has passed a Matriculation or Preliminary Examination such as is required by this Chapter for persons beginning their medical studies in Nova Scotia; that he has, before graduating or taking a diploma, studied for at least four years in the manner provided in section 9 of this Chapter,

or pursued what the Board shall deem an equivalent course CHAP. 28. of study; and has passed a final examination in the subjects of such course; or, for want of any of such requisites shall have fulfilled such conditions as the Board may determine; and shall pay a fee of ten dollars; shall be entitled to be registered and to receive a license to practise.

persons having

studies before

May, 1872.

11. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein Mode of procur contained, any person who shall have regularly begun his ing license by medical studies in this Province before the first day of commenced May, 1872, shall be entitled to be registered and receive a license to practise, upon paying a fee of five dollars and complying strictly with the provisions of Chapter 56 of the Revised Statutes, Third Series, " Of Regulations concerning the Practice of Physic and Surgery:" Provided, Proviso. that such person shall apply for such license and registra tion before the first day of July, A. D. 1876, after which date this Section shall cease and determine.

12. The Provincial Medical Board shall have power and it shall be their duty :

1°. To elect a President and such other officers, including the Secretary and Registrar hereinbefore provided for, as may be necessary to the working of this Chapter:

2°. To regulate the study of Medicine, Surgery and Midwifery; by making rules not inconsistent with this Chapter, with regard to the preliminary qualification, course of study to be followed, the final examination, and the nature of the evidence to be produced before the Board upon these subjects:

3°. To appoint fit and proper persons to conduct the preliminary or matriculation examination; to decide upon the times for holding such examination; and to fix the remuneration, if any, to be paid to such examiners:

4°. To examine all degrees, diplomas, licenses, and other credentials presented or given in evidence under this Chapter, for the purpose of enabling the owner to practise in Nova Scotia; and to oblige the owner of such credentials to attest on oath or by affidavit that he is the person whose name is mentioned therein, and that he became possessed thereof honestly:

5. To cause every member of the profession practising in Nova Scotia to enregister his name, age, place of residence, place of nativity, the date of his license or diploma, and the place where he obtained it, in the register of the Board:

6°. To make orders, regulations, and bye-laws for regulating the registers to be kept under this Chapter:

7°. To make all such rules, regulations, and bye-laws for carrying this Chapter into effect as to the Board shall seem proper or necessary; which rules, regulations and

Powers and

duties of Provincial Medical

Board.