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 SEVENTIETH CONGRESS. SEss. II. Cu. 352. 1929 . 1331 their respective appointments : Provided, That any adherent of a method of healing for which the commission has provided a board of examiners, who has been graduated with an appropriate degree by some school representative of that method, who has practiced according to that system in the Distri ct of Columbia for not less than five co nsecutive yea rs immediatel y preceding th e approval of this Act, and who is entitled to a license, without examination, by virtue of the provisions of section 24 of this Act, is eligible for appointment as a member of that board. SEC. 1 5 . The c ommission sha ll refer to th e appropriate board of examiners in drugless healing every applicant for a license to practice the healing art according to any method of drugless healing defined by the commission, who intends and in his application agrees to limit his practice to the system so defined, for determination of the applicant's fitness so to practice, and who is not entitled to a license to practice without examination : Provided, That no applicant shall be certified to any board of examiners in drugless healing who has not been reported by the board of examiners in the basic sciences as qualified in the sciences of anatomy, physiology, chemistry, bacte- riology, and pathology. S EC. 16 . The commission may appoint, from time to time, as it deems expedien t, a board of examiners in midwifery, co nsisting of not less than three and not more than five persons, who have prac- ticed the healing art in the District of Columbia for not less than three years im mediately pre ceding their respective app ointments, under authority of licenses authorizing them so to practice. Ap point- ments to such boards shall be made for such terms as the commission deems proper. The commission may abolish any such board at any time. SEC. 17. The commission shall refer to a board of examiners in midwifery ever y applicant f or a license to practice mi dwifery who intends and in her application agrees to limit her practice to the care of women during normal pregnancy and parturition, in so far as the licentiate is able to deter mine whether pregnancy and parturition are normal in any particular case, for determination of the appli- cant's fitness so to practice, and who is not entitled to a license by virtue of an outstanding license to practice midwifery in the District of Columbia in force at the date of the approval of this Act. SE C. 18. Examinations shall be held by the board of examiners in Exami-tions by the boards. medicine and osteopathy, the boards of examiners in drugless healing, Regular ter ms. and the board of examiners in midwifery, beginning on the second Monday in January and July of each year and at such other times as the commission may by rule or by special order determine. Examinations s hall be held by the board of examiners i n the basic sciences at such times as the commission may by rule or by special order determine, having due relation to the dates of the examinations hel d by the boar d of examiner s in medicine and osteopath y and the boards of examiners in drugless healing. The commission shall Publication of no- publish notice of the time and lace of each examination and of other tiees. pertinent information concerning it, not less than thirty days before the first day of each such examination, in one or more newspapers of local circulation and, except in so far as relates to examinations for licenses to practice midwifery, in one or more medical or osteopathic journals of national circulation ; and if there be any board or boards of examiners in drugless healing, then in a journal or journals, if there be any, of national circulation, representing a method or methods of healing corresponding to the method or methods repre- sented by such board or boards. Proviso. Elig ibil ity o f gr adu- ates of representative school, and practiced i n the District five year s. Applicants agreeing to l imit prac tice to drugless healing meth- od, to be referred to ex- aminers . Proviso. No applicant to be refe rred, if n ot re port ed by examiners in basic sciences as qualified therein. Boards of examiners in midwifery to be ap- pointed fr om time to ti me. Applicants to prac- tice midwi fery to be referred to board .

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