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BY REQUEST,

y ACT, to regulate the practice

of Physic and Surgery, Be it enacted by the general (tsbly of the State of Indiana, That purpose of regulating the ictice of physic and surgery in !s state ; each circuit as laid off r holding circuit courts, shall Snpose one medical district, to j known as first second or third dical district in the state of Inina, according to the name of circuit. 2. In each medical district, :re shall be a board of medical .isors, to be organized in the lowing manner; viz : Doctors Us M'' Namec , Jacob Kuykc7idall, )vid M. Hale, Thomas Pclke & W F. Casey, are hereby declared be, and compose the first board I medical censors, in and for the st medical district of the state Indiana : Doctors -Bradley fc of Jem," P. R. 'Allen, Andrew P. h Jamcs 8- Slaughter and Sam I Merhvether, shall be and con. tute the first board of medical nsors, in and for the second rdical district : and doctors Jas Purcival, D. F. Sachet, D. jver John Howes and Ezra Fershall be and constitute the X board of medical censors in i for the third medical district. :c medical censors of the first

r.saicai district are authorised &

-quired to meet at the house of -ter Jones in tire town of Vinmnes, on the first Monday of Jne,' in the year eighteen liunrcd and seventeen, and the meical censors of the second medial d

cquired to meet at the court

house in the town of Salem,' on the first Monday of June, eighteen hundred and seventeen ; and the medical censors of the third medical district are authorised &

required to meet at the house of Walter Armstrong in the town of Lawrenceburg, on the first Monday of June; in the year eighteen hundred and seventeen, for the purpose of examining and licencing physicians to practise in this state. V 3. The medical censors of each medical district, or a majority in each district having assembled in conformity to the preceding section may and they are hereby required to give notice by a written communication to the practising physicians in their respective districts, that 'they are appointed a board of medical censors for their respective districts, and that on a day and place certain, to be designated by the censors of each district ; there will be a meeting of the licensed physicians in their respective district to organize the medical society of the state of Indiana ; and that in the meanwhile, they vill in conformity to the provisions of this act ; on application examine and license to practice medicine, such as may apply. to them and be judged qualified. 4. The first board of medical censors in each medical district, or a majority of them, when assembled agreeably to the second section of this act, and until they shall be superceded in office, are and shall be authorised to examine ancHicencc to practice medicine in this state ; all who on application, may be by them thoc worthy of this important trust; 5. In each medical district,'the censors and licensed physicians of such district, having assembled in conformity to the provisions of this act, at the time and place mentioned and designated by the respective board of censors, may then and from time to time thereafter, elect their own president; secretary and - medical censors j and being thus organized, shall from thenceforward, be known in law and in equity, as a body corporate and politic, by the name and style of the board of physicians of the medical district of Indiana, and as such, may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, answer and be answered unto, and do and tranact such business as they may be authorised by law in their corporate capacity.

6. Should tne meaicai censors

duties prescribed them by this act, by the first day of October next, then, arid in that case, it shall and may x be lawful, for the prac. vtisinjr nhvMciins of such medical

v 9 1 , . district on that day to assemble themselves in their respective districts, at the place or places mentioned in the second section . of this act ; any five of whom having met in such district, may proceed to choose their own president, secretary and medical censors; and shall thenceforward be known in law and in equity, as a body politic and corporate, with the same powers and privileges; as if the same had been formed by the medical censors and licensed physicians of such district as mentioried in the preceding section. 7; The board of physicians of each medical district shall have power to make their own byelaws not inconsistent with the laws and constitution of this state, and : for that purpose may after being organized, at their first meeting, adjourn to any other time arid place they may . think proper, Provided, they shall meet in their own district, and 5-hall not adjourn to a more distant time than six months after any meeting, at which such adjournment is made. 8. It shall be the duty of the board of physicians of each medical district to admit to membership every physician or surgeon residing or wishing to practice in such district, .who shall on examination before them; give proof of their qualification to practice in either of fuch professions, and reasonable evidence of their moral character: also to expel any member, who may be guilty of intemperance or immorality, on the same being duly proven before them. 9. Each .board-shall publish their meetings a sufficient time beforehand, so that the time &place thereof may be generally known, and for the purpose of defraying the expences thereof, and such other expences as may be necessary in carrying into effect the provisions of-this act, they may demand of each member on admittanceany sum not exceeding five dollars, and a sum of each of the members of the society, not exceeding five dollars annua'ly thereafter. 10. No person who is1 not a member of the board of one of the medical districts of this state, shall have the benefit of the law for collecting his charges for professional services rendered by Lim after sucli board is organized: Provided however, Any person

or a majority of them, of either men ical district, as provided for

in this act, refuse or neglect to obtaining a permit to practice comply with the requisitions and from any two of said board shaJ

be considered, as a member until their next meeting, and any prr- . son a member of a medical socie- ; ty and living in an adjoining state shall be entitled to all the privileges of a . member of the board of physicians in this state. v 11. Each board of physicians

shall forward to the president .of

the senate of this state at their next session, a copy of their byelaws and rules established according to the provisions of this actj at which time the general assembly shall reserve to themselves the privilege of making sUch further regulations as they may think "proper. i 2. It will riot be lawful for any physician or surgeon to charge or receive more than twelve, and a half cents per mile he shall travel in going td and returning home from the place of residence (for the time being) of his patient. . with 2n addition of a hundred per centum for travelling in the night; Nothing in this act shall prevent a future general assembly from making any alterations therein or from repealing it if they deem it expedient, neither shall any provision in this act prevent any person cr persons of regular and respectable standing in the profession of physic and surgery in a neighboring stlte or territoryfrom practising in this staic, ISAAC BLACKFORD, Speaker of the House of Repri- - ' ' sentatiies.

President of the Senate: December 24, 1816 Approved, Jonathan jlnnings: revolution in brazil. Norfolk, April 24. fly a gentleman who arrived here in the brig Herald, from JJarbadoes, we are informed that the province of Pernambucco (in Brazil) had revolted, and declared itself independent of the Brazilian government. Our informant, who 13 a resident of the' town of Pernambucco, which place he left on the 13th, March; states that .this revolution waj brought about by the concurrence of the military with the citizens, , on the (5th of Match. It com menced at the barracks where a colonel of artillery attempting to put some officers of the regiment under arrest,- one of thein ran him through with a sword ; 'and the principal aid-de cainp of the governor arriving and endeavoring to harangue the troops, he was instantly shot. A general beat to arms ensued ; the militia were called out, but they, as also a promiscuously armed popula- . tion (as various in its character a' its color) joined the military an. j