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exceeding two dollars each, to be collected by their clerks; to dispose of the money received, by taxes or otherwise, in such manner as they may think proper, to promote the design of the institution; to purchase and hold property, either real or personal, to an amount not exceeding one hundred thousand dollars; and to manage and dispose of the same, as they may judge best for the interest of the institution.

Duty of members of county

medical societies;

SECT. 3. It shall be the duty of the several members of the county medical societies, to communicate useful information to such societies, at their meetings; and such societies shall transmit the same to the convention: and it shall be duty of the convention to cause to be publish- ties; ed all cases, experiments and observations, respecting and of the conthe diseases of the country, which may be of practical vention.

use.

of such socie

gible as offi

cers.

SECT. 4. The election of the officers of t ne medical Who are eliconvention shall not be confined to the members thereof, but may be from any of the medical societies; and the officers so chosen shall become members of the medical convention. The president, or on his death, or in his absence, the vice-president, shall, upon any special occasion, have power to call a meeting of the convention, Special meetings, how callat such time and place as he may think proper, upon ed. giving twenty days' notice in two gazettes, published in this state.

not entitled to recover fees.

SECT. 5. No physician or surgeon, who has commenced Unlicensed practice since May one thousand eight hundred, or who shall practitioners hereafter commence practice, shall be entitled by law to recover any debt or fees for such practice, unless he has been duly licenced, by some medical society, or college of physicians.

SECT. 6. If any of the collectors of taxes in the county Remedy medical societies, granted by the Connecticut medical against delinconvention, shall neglect or refuse to collect the tax, quent collectentrusted to his collection, by the time the same is made ors of taxes. payable, or having collected the same, shall neglect or refuse to pay it to the treasurer of the medical convention, such treasurer may cause a suit or suits to be instituted against such delinquent collector, in the name of the president and fellows of said convention, before any court proper to try the same, and the same to pursue to final judgment.

SECT. 7. The medical institution, established in YaleCollege, pursuant to an agreement between the president and fellows of the medical convention, and the president and fellows of Yale-College, is hereby declared to be a body politic and corporate, to be known and acknowl

The medical institution of

Yale-College, declared a cor

poration.

Professors.

edged by the name of The Medical Institution of YaleCollege.

SECT. 8. The institution shall include a complete course of medical science, to consist of four professors; the first, of chemistry and pharmacy; the second, of the theory and practice of medicine; the third, of anatomy, surgery and midwifery; the fourth, of materia medica, and How chosen. botany. And there shall be a joint committee, of an equal number of persons, appointed by the medical convention and the corporation of Yale-College, who shall make a nomination, from which nomination the aforesaid professors shall be chosen by the corporation.

Cabinet of an

atomical pre-
parations;
a collection of

specimens ;
and a botani-
cal garden, to
be established.

Qualifications of medical students for examination for

licence.

Proviso,

SECT. 9. A cabinet of anatomical preparations, including all things usually found in a collection of this nature; and a collection of specimens in the materia medica, shall be provided; and a botanical garden shall be established, as soon as the funds of the college will allow.

SECT. 10. Every medical student shall be required to attend the study of physic and surgery, with some medical or chirurgical professor or practitioner, of respectable standing, for two years, provided he shall have been graduated at some college; otherwise, three years; and to have arrived at the age of twenty-one years. And every medical student shall attend one course of each of the above systems of lectures, under the professors of the medical institution of Yale-College, or some other public medical institution, previous to his being admitted to an examination for a licence; and the course of lectures he is required to attend, may be included within the term he is required to study. Provided, that upon the as to privileg recommendation of the county medical societies, respectively, one meritorious and necessitous person from each county shall annually be allowed the privilege of attending one course of each of the above lectures, gratis. And if any of the county medical societies should fail to recommend as above, the medical convention may fill up the vacancy. It shall be the duty of the county medical societies to report to the medical convention of the state, the names of the persons, whom they shall agree to recommend; and the president of said convention shall transmit said names, together with such as the medical convention may add, agreeably to the above provision, to the medical Price of tick- professors of Yale-College. And the price of the ticket, for the whole of the above course of lectures, shall not exceed fifty dollars.

ed students.

et limited.

Committee of examination.

SECT. 11. The committee of examination for the practice of physic and surgery, shall consist of the professors of the medical institution, and an equal number of the members of the medical societies, appointed by the med

ical convention; and the president of the medical convention shall, ex officio, be president of the examining committee, with a vote at all times, and a casting vote, when the votes are equal and in case of the absence of the president, a president pro tempore shall be appointed, by the members of the examining committee, appointed by the medical convention, with the same powers; which committee, or a majority of them, shall possess the pow

er, and they only, of examining for a licence. All licen- Licences, how ces to practice physic or surgery, shall be signed by the signed. president of the medical convention, and countersigned

date.

by the committee, or a majority of them: and the fees or Fees for licenperquisites for admitting or licensing any candidate to cing candipractise physic or surgery, shall not exceed four dollars, which shall be paid to the treasurer of the medical convention, for the benefit of the same.

of doctor of

SECT. 12. Each candidate for the degree of doctor of Qualifications medicine, shall be required to attend two courses of the of candidate s above systems of lectures, at the medical institution of for the degree Yale-College, or at some other public medical institution, medicine. where a similar course of public instruction is pursued; which degree, upon the recommendation of the committee of examination, shall be conferred by the president of the college, and the diploma signed by him, and countersigned by the committee, or the majority of them. And

the president of the college shall have power to confer Honorary desuch honorary degrees upon those persons whom the med- grees. ical convention shall recommend, as deserving of so distinguished a mark of respect.

SECT. 13. For the accommodation, both of the students Examination. and of the committee, there shall be but one examination a year, which shall be immediately after the close of the courses of lectures. When a candidate is prevented, by sickness, he may be examined by the medical professors at college; and such examination, with their certificate thereof, shall entitle him to the same privileges as though his examination had been by said committee.

SECT. 14. All medical students, who shall have attended two courses of lectures in the medical institution, shall have the privilege of attending all future courses, gratis. And all persons licenced to practise physic or surgery, agreeably to the foregoing provisions, shall, of course, be members of the medical society in the county in which they reside.

Privilege of students having attended

two courses. Licenced practitioners, members of

medical society.

Disturbance

in meetings,

TITLE 66. Meetings.

CHAP. I.

An Act to preserve Order in the Meetings of
Towns and other Communities.

SECT. 1.

BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep

resentatives, in General Assembly convened, That all towns, societies, and other communities, when lawfully assembled, shall have power to choose a modehow punished. rator to preside in said meetings and if any person or

Aggravated offences.

Moderator may order

of disturbance into custody.

persons shall, by noise, tumult, quarelling, or by any other unlawful act, disturb such meeting; or prevent them from proceeding, in an orderly and peaceable manner, to the choice of a moderator; or, after the choice of a moderator, shall vilify or abuse him, or interrupt him in the discharge of his duty; or, after he has commanded silence, shall speak in the meeting, without liberty from the moderator, unless it be to ask reasonable liberty to speak; he or they shall forfeit and pay to the treasury of the town where the offence is committed, a sum not less than one dollar, nor more than seven dollars, according to the nature of the offence.

SECT. 2. All offences against this act may be heard and determined, by a justice of the peace, unless aggravated by some high-handed breach of the peace; in which case, the offender shall be bound, by such justice of the peace, to the next county court, to answer for the offence; which court may impose a fine upon him, according to the aggravation of the offence, not exceeding thirty-four dollars, to the use of the treasury of such county.

SECT. 3. The moderator of such meetings, and the presiding officer in electors' meetings, whenever any disorpersons guilty ders are committed in the meeting, punishable by law, and the offender or offenders shall refuse to submit to his lawful authority, shall have power to order any sheriff, deputy-sheriff, or constable, to take the offender or of fenders into custody, and, if necessary, to remove him or them out of such meeting, until he or they shall conform to order, or, if need be, until such meeting be closed: and thereupon, such officer shall have power to command all necessary assistance, as in cases of preserving the peace and suppressing riots and any person refusing to assist, when commanded, shall be liable to the same penalties as for refusing to assist sheriffs and constables in the execution of their offices: provided, that no person com

Power of officer.

Proviso.

manded to assist shall be deprived of his right to act in the meetings, nor the offenders, any longer than they refuse to conform to order.

SECT. 4. All questions in such meetings shall be deci- All questions ded by a major vote of the qualified members present; to be decided and whenever there shall be an equi-vote, the question by major vote. shall be decided by the moderator.

CHAP. II.

An Act to prevent the disturbance of Religious

SECT. 1.

Meetings.

BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep

resentatives, in General Assembly convened,

in the field.

That no person or persons shall keep any huckster's shop, Sale of spiritbooth, tent, waggon, or other carriage, for the sale of ous liquors prohibited spiritous or other liquors, or any articles of provisions, within two whatever, or sell, or expose to sale, in such huckster's miles of relishop, booth, tent, waggon, carriage, or in any other way, gious meetings any spiritous or other liquors, or any articles of provision, whatever, within the distance of two miles from any public assembly, convened for religious worship in the field. Provided, that nothing herein contained, shall prevent the Limitation. sale of spiritous or other liquors, or provisions, by any person or persons, at his or their store or dwelling-house, who shall be licenced according to law to retail spiritous liquors.

SECT. 2. Any person or persons, who shall be guilty Penalty for of a breach of this act, shall forfeit and pay, for every breach of this such offence, a fine of seven dollars, to the use of the act. treasury of the town where such offence is committed; and it shall be the duty of grand-jurors to make due presentment of all breaches of this act.

warrant, to apprehend of

fenders.

SECT. 3. It shall be the duty of all sheriffs, constables, Informing ofgrand-jurors, or tything-men, upon view, without war- ficers, upon rant, to apprehend every person so offending, and him or view, without them to carry before the next justice of the peace, that he or they may be dealt with according to law. And the justice of the peace, before whom such person or persons are Process therebrought, shall, on the oath of the officer apprehending on. him or them, issue a warrant, and cause him or them to be arrested, and proceed to a hearing and trial of such matter of complaint, in due course of law.

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