for the classification of townships of the Commonwealth with respect to their population into two classes, and to prescribe the form of government for townships of each class," approved April twentyeighth, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine (Pamphlet Laws, one hundred and four), and its supplements and amendments, and investing the execution of such powers, authorities, and franchises in the board of school directors of such independent school districts. Approved May 3, 1909 (P. L., 390).

An act authorizing township school districts which entirely surround a city or borough to acquire, in such city or borough, lands, and to erect thereon buildings for high school purposes, and exempting property so acquired from taxation by such city, borough, or school district thereof, and authorizing such township school directors to enter upon and occupy sufficient ground for such high school purposes, and providing for the determination of damages done and suffered by the owners of the land, by reason of the taking thereof for such high school purposes. Approved May 6, 1909 (P. L., 461).

An act establishing interstate comity in teachers' licenses, by authorizing the endorsement and validation in Pennsylvania of Normal School diplomas and permanent certificate granted in other States of the Union. Approved May 11, 1901 (P. L., 184).

An act for the control, administration, and support of the common schools in school districts of the first class. Approved April 22, 1905 (P. L., 267).

A supplement to an act, entitled "An act for the establishment of free public libraries in the several school districts of this Commonwealth, except in cities of the first and second class," approved June twentyeighth, eighteen ninety-five, authorizing school districts to aid free public libraries otherwise established. Approved March 30, 1897 (P. L., 10).

An act relating to the controllers of the public schools of the city and county of Philadelphia. Approved April 16, 1845 (P. L., 502).

Section No. 35 of an act regulating election districts, and for other purposes. Approved April 7, 1848 (P. L., 365).

An act relative to public schools. Approved April 11, 1848.

An act prescribing the manner of filling vacancies in boards of school directors in cities of the first class. Approved May 5, 1887, (P. L., 78).

An act to provide for the commencement of the term of school directors in cities of the first class, and to regulate their number, manner of election, and term of service, and providing for the appointment of members of the Board of Education for new wards. Approved June 8, 1891 (P. L., 223).

An act supplement to an act, entitled "An act consolidating the wards of the city of Pittsburg, for educational purposes. Approved July 9, 1855. And the acts supplementary thereto. Approved March 31, 1868 (P. L., 530).

An act relative to the collection of school tax in the borough of Coatesville in the county of Chester. Approved May 18, 1871, (P. L., 901).

An act relative to the Somerset school district. Approved May 1, 1861 (P. L., 524).

An act authorizing the citizens of the borough of Mercer to erect a union schoolhouse in said borough. Approved May 13, 1856 (P. L., 574).

Together with any and all other acts of Assembly, general, special or local, or parts thereof, that are in any way in conflict or inconsistent with this act, or any part thereof, shall, at the time of the taking effect of this act, be and the same are hereby repealed.

APPROVED-The 18th day of May, A. D. 1911.

JOHN K. TENER,

ARTICLE A.

BUREAU OF PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION.

There shall be created a Bureau of Professional Education, as a sub-department of the Department of Public Instruction, with an office at Harrisburg; and said bureau shall be known as the Bureau of Professional Education of the Department of Public Instruction, and shall be under the immediate direction and supervision of the State Superintendent of Public Instruction.

Bureau of Professional Education,

Officers and employes.

The officers and employes of said bureau shall be appointed by the Superintendent of Public Instruction, Compensation. compensated upon the same basis as other officers and employes of the said Department of Public Instruction, out of an appropriation created therefor. After the expiration of the present term of the present incumbent, the Superintendent of Public Instruction shall receive, as a compensation for extra duties, a sum not exceeding five hundred dollars annually.

The duty of said bureau shall be the determination, evaluation, stadardization, and regulation of the preliminary education, both secondary and collegiate, of those to be hereafter admitted to the practice of medicine, dentistry, and pharmacy in this Commonwealth; the preparation and distribution of circulars of information; the preparation of uniform blank forms; the holding of examinations at suitable times and places, to be designated by the Superintendent of

Duty of the bureau.

Applicants from other States and countries.

Certificate.

Fees.

Appropriation.

Public Instruction, for the determination of the fitness of applicants unable to present satisfactory certificates; the issuing of certificates to those found proficient, directly from the Department of Public Instruction; the establishment of reciprocity with other States as regard preliminary education and professional licenses; the determination and publication of a standard high school course, and the compilation of a list of high schools and other secondary schools of this State conforming to said standard; and the exercising of such power as may be within the right of the Department of Public Education upon the high schools and secondary schools of the State to raise the standard of secondary education. The organization of said bureau shall be under the direction of the Superintendent of Public Instruction: Provided, That nothing in this act shall conflict with the provisions of the statues of this Commonwealth regulating the practice of medicine, dentistry, or pharmacy, respectively.

Applicants from other States or foreign countries for admission to schools of medicine, dentistry, or pharmacy, or for the licensure to practice medicine, dentistry, or pharmacy within the State of Pennsylvania, who do not hold a diploma from an accredited college, or a certificate of having passed the entrance examination to a first year course in an accredited college, or satisfactory evidence of having graduated from a high school or secondary school, the standard of which shall be equivalent to the standard adopted by the said Bureau of Professional Education, or satisfactory credentials from accredited secondary schools, shall be subjected to an examination by said bureau, and if successful shall be awarded a certificate, setting forth his or her proficiency, by the said Bureau of Professional Education.

A fee of one dollar shall be charged to each applicant for the issuance by the Department of Public Instruction of the certificate of proficiency, to each applicant to whom said certificate shall be issued; and an additional fee of one dollar shall be charged for each examination to be held under the direction of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, by the Bureau of Professional Education, to each applicant for said examination; all monies received by the said Bureau of Professional Education to be turned into the public treasury.

The sum of fifteen thousand dollars is hereby appropriated, out of any monies in the State Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to defray the expenses of the said Bureau of Professional Education of the Department of Public Instruction. (a)

(a) Act June 19, 1911, Sec. 1-6, P. L. p. 1045.

Section I.

ARTICLE B.

BUREAU OF MEDICAL EDUCATION.

cine and surgery.

On and after January first, nineteen hun- Practice of medidred and twelve, it shall not be lawful for any person in the State of Pennsylvania to engage in the practice of medicine and surgery, or to hold himself or herself forth as a practitioner in medicine and surgery, or to assume the title of doctor of medicine and surgery, or doctor of any specific disease, or to diagnose diseases, or to treat diseases by the use of medicines and surgery, or to sign any death certificate, or to hold himself or herself forth as able to do so, excepting those hereinafter exempted, unless he or she has first fulfilled the requirements of this act and has received a certificate of licensure from the Bureau of Medical Education and Licensure created by this act, which license shall be properly recorded in the office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction at Harrisburg.

On first offense, any person wilfully violating the Penalties. provisions of this section of this act shall upon conviction, be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be subject to a fine of not more than five hundred dollars, or imprisonment for not more than six months in the county prison, or both or either, at the discretion of the court; on second offense, shall be subject to a fine of not less than five hundred or more than one thousand dollars, and imprisonment for not less than six months or more than one year, at the discretion of the court: Provided, That this section shall not apply to those persons who, under the laws of the Commonwealth, at the date of the passage of this act have been accorded the right by a licensing certificate to diagnose and treat disease, medically and surgically, and to sign the form of death certificate required by laws of this Commonwealth, or who are exempt therefrom by further provisions of this act.

Proviso.

Bureau of Medical

Licensure.

For the purpose of carrying out and enforcing the provisions of this act, there shall be established in this Commonwealth a Bureau of Medical Education and Education and Licensure, to be attached to the Department of Public Instruction. The said bureau shall consist of seven members, two of whom, the Superintendent of Public Instruction and the Commissioner of Health, shall be ex-officio members thereof; the five remaining members shall be appointed by the Governor of the Common- Appointments. wealth, who shall appoint the same on or before September first, nineteen hundred and eleven. The said five members, so appointed, shall be selected from, and at present legally incorporated, State medical societies of the State of Pennsylvania; namely, one from the

Terms of office.

Certificate.

Vacancies.

Removal.

Title of the bureau.

Organization.

Rules and regulations.

Publication.

Advertisement.

Quorum.

Medical Society of the State of Pennsylvania, and one from the Homeopathic Medical Society of the State of Pennsylvania, and one from the Electric Medical Society of the State of Pennsylvania; and who, at the time of their appointment, are licensed and qualified under the existing laws of this Commonwealth to practice medicine and surgery, and who shall have practiced the same in this Commonwealth for a period of not less than ten years prior to their respective appointments: And provided, That the two remaining members shall not be of the same school or system of practice. Two members of the bureau first appointed under this act shall serve for one year; two, for two years; and one for three years; after which the sucessor of each member shall be appointed for the term of three years; but no member of said bureau shall be a member of the faculty of any undergraduate school, college, or university teaching medicine and surgery. The Governor shall furnish each person appointed with a certificate of appointment, under the seal of this Commonwealth. He shall fill all vacancies, caused by death, resignation, or otherwise; and shall have the power to remove any appointed member of the said bureau, for continued neglect of the duties which he may be required to perform as a member of the bureau, or for any unprofessional or dishonorable conduct, upon receiving proper proof of the same. Appointments to fill vacancies, occurring through the death, resignation, or otherwise, shall be for the unexpired term of the deceased or retiring member.

Said bureau shall be known by the name and title of "The Bureau of Medical Education and Licensure of the Department of Public Instruction" of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and shall effect its organization immediately after the appointment of its members by the Governor.

At the first meeting held for the purpose of organization it shall elect from its membership a president, and a secretary, who shall also be treasurer; and it shall have authority to make rules and regulations for the transaction of its business, and for registration of all physicians of this Commonwealth, and for conducting examinations of applicants; said rules to be printed and published in pamphlet form, for public distribution. Proper publication thereof shall also be made, after their adoption, in such newspapers in Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and Harrisburg as may be designated by the bureau once a week for three weeks. Five members shall constitute a quorum; except for the consideration of the revocation or the suspension of a license, or the determination of the fitness of any college to render eligible its graduates for licensure, or the refusal to grant license, when the unanimous consent of all seven members shall be necessary.