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§§ 205 the territory of Dakota, which report shall show all that has been done by the territorial board of health, and by such superintendent of public health during the two years preceding the making of such report, the number of cases treated by said superintendent of public health, and in each of the counties by the county superintendents of health, the character and extent during such time of all the contagious or infectious diseases that have been reported to said superintendent of public health; and he shall also report a full statement of all expenditures by said territorial board of health, and in each of the organized counties in this territory by the county boards of health, and he shall also report such recommendations as he may deem advisable for the better protection of the public health, and the prevention and cure of contagious or infectious diseases of persons and of domestic animals.

§ 205. No person shall be permitted to practice medicine in any of its departments in this territory unless he be a graduate of a medical college, or unless upon examination before a board composed of the superintendent of public health and two other physicians to be selected by the territorial board of health, such person shall be found proficient in the practice of medicine and surgery, and shall also be found upon proof to have been actually engaged in the practice of medicine for a term of not less than ten years, and no person shall practice medicine unless he be of good moral character, and is not an habitual drunkard. Any person possessing the qualifications mentioned in this section shall upon presentation of his diploma, or of proof thereof by affidavit, if the same is lost or destroyed, and upon the affidavit of two reputable citizens from the county where he resides that such applicant possesses the qualifications of a physician as prescribed herein, to the superintendent of public health, together with a fee of two dollars, receive from such superintendent of public health a license, certifying the applicant to be a practisingpracticing [sic] physician, and having the qualifications for such prescribed by this section, which license shall be recorded in the office of the register of deeds in the county where such practisingpracticing [sic] physician resides. Any person who practices medicine or attempts to practice medicine without complying with the provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and any person shall be regarded as practising medicine within the meaning of this section who shall profess publicly to be a physician and to prescribe for the sick, or who appends to his name the letters "M. D.," but nothing in this section shall be construed to prohibit students from prescribing, under the supervision of preceptors, or to prohibit gratuitous services in case of emergency, nor shall this section apply to commissioned surgeons in the United States army and navy. Any person violating any of the provisions of this act, or who shall prevent or attempt to prevent the several officers of the public health, or persons employed by them, from performing any of the duties prescribed in this act to be performed by any such officer, or any practising physician who shall fail to report to the county superintendent of health the existence of any contagious or infectious disease, and any person who shall willfully conceal any case of contagious or infectious disease either among persons or animals, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor. The district court shall, upon the complaint of any member of the territorial board of health or the county board of health where he resides, have power to cancel