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 SEVENTIETH CONGRESS. SEss. II. C$. 352. 1929 . 1335 facilities at their respective colleges of graduation, or by hospital work, to enable them to practice surgery. Each license so to do shall show that it was issued on the basis of years of practice in the District of Columbia and without examination. Chiropractic. Any person who was engaged in the practice of chiropractic in the Application fr om present p ractitioners. District of Columbia on o r before Janu ary 1, 1928, m ay deliver to Requirements. the commission, within ninety days after the approval of this Act, a written application for license to practice chiropractic in the District of Columbia, together with satisfactory proof that the applicant is not less than twenty-one years of age and of good moral character, and had previously obtained a diploma from some legally chartered or incorporated and duly established school or college of chiropractic and was actually engaged in the practice of chiro- practic in said District on January 1, 1928. Issue of l icense. When the commission is satisfied as to the qualifications of the applicant as aforesaid, it shall issue to him a license to practice chiro practic. Each license so to do shall show that it was issued on the basis of actual practice in the District of Columbia without exami nation. Any person who has been engaged in the practice of the healing Drugless healing. Application fr om art as defined in this Act, in the District of Columbia on or before present p ractitioners. January 1, 1928, according to any other drugless method of healing, Proof required. who has been graduated wi th a degree a ppropriate to the system of drugless healing that lie has practiced by a legally chartered or incorporated and duly est ablished scho ol, and who de sires to con- tinue so to practice, shall within ninety days after the approval of this Act submit proof, satisfactory to the commission, of such date of practice and of graduation, of the fact that he is not less than twenty-one years of age and of good moral character, and of the name, charac ter, and limi ts of the met hod of healing practiced by Issue of license. him. When the commission is satisfied as to the qualifications of the applicant as aforesaid, it shall issue to the applicant a license to practice the healing art in accordance with the system described by the applicant, if recognized by the commission as a named system of drugless healing, which shall be clearly defined and limited in the license so as to distinguish it from all other systems of practice. A license issued in any such case shall show that it was issued on the basis of years of practice. and not on the basis of examination. Application without SEC. 25 . An applicant who desires to obtain a license without examinations by virtue examination, by virtue of a license issued to him by a State, Terri- o ofc license from state, tory, or other jurisdiction forming a part of the United States, or Proof required. by a foreign country, shall submit proof, satisfactory to the com- mission, that he is not less than twenty-one years of age and is of good moral character ; that he was licensed to practice the healing art in the jurisdiction whence he comes under conditions that at that time would have enabled him to obtain a license to practice the healing art in the District of Columbia, or to have obtained a license under the provisions of this Act were it then in force ; that he prac- ticed the healing art under authority of said license for not less than two consecutive years immediately preceding the date of his application, and that he intends, if licensed by the commission, to Proof of reciprocity practice in the District of Columbia. The applicant shall submit, by state, etc. also, proof that the licensing agency of the jurisdiction whence he comes or desires to come grants, without examination, to licentiates of the District of Columbia of the same class, licenses to practice the Issue of license. healing art within its jurisdiction. When the commission is satisfied as to the qualifications of the applicant as aforesaid and as to the readiness of the licensing agency of the jurisdiction whence the applicant comes to license, without examination, licentiates of the

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