CHAP. 43 Practice of dentistry by incompetent persons, prohibited. -penalty for violation. Board of examiners created. -appointment and tenure. -vacancies, how filled. Members shall be sworn. -choose president and secretary. -annual meeting. -quorum. -duties of secretary. Chapter 43. An Act to insure the better education of practitioners of Dental Surgery, and to regulate the practice of Dentistry in the State of Maine. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives. in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. No person shall practice, attempt to practice, or hold himself out to be a practitioner of dentistry or dental surgery until he or she shall have first received a certificate as hereinafter provided; and whoever violates the provisions of this section, shall be fined not less than twenty-five, nor more than one hundred dollars for each offense. This section shall take effect three months after the approval of this act. SECT. 2. A board of examiners, to consist of five dentists of good standing, who have been in the practice of dentistry in this state not less than five years, is hereby created. The members of said board shall be appointed by the governor, with advice and consent of council, to hold office for the term of three years and until their successors are qualified, except, however, that the first five members to constitute said board shall be appointed to hold as follows: two for the term of one year, two for two years and one for three years. Vacancies in said board at any time occurring shall be filled by the governor in accordance with the provisions of this section. SECT. 3. Before entering upon their duties the members of said board shall take and subscribe the oaths prescribed by law to be taken by other officers appointed in like manner. As soon as convenient after their appointment the members of said board shall meet and organize, by choosing one of their number who shall serve as president and another as secretary for the ensuing year and until their successors are chosen, and shall meet annually thereafter at a time and place to be determined by said board at its previous annual meeting, and may meet at such other times and places as said board may deem necessary. A majority of the members of said board shall constitute a quorum, a true record of whose proceedings shall be kept by the secretary and shall be open at all reasonable times to public inspection. The secretary under direction of the board, shall further keep a register in which shall be entered the name, residence and place of business of every person authorized under this act to practice dentistry, and shall certify a copy of the same to the secretary of state, who shall enter the same in a book to be kept for the purpose. CHAP. 43 practicing SECT. 4. Every person engaged in the practice of dentistry Persons or dental surgery in this state at the time of approval of this dentistry, shall act shall, within three months thereafter, cause his or her name, residence and place of business to be registered with said board of examiners. The statements of every such person shall be verified under oath before a notary public or justice of the peace in such manner as may be prescribed by the board, and upon due compliance and payment of the fee as provided in section seven of this act, shall receive from said board a certificate in due form, signed by the president and attested by the secretary authorizing such persons to practice dentistry in the state. -shall receive certificate. Persons passing satisfactory examination, examine entitled to register. SECT. 5. Any person desiring to practice dentistry or dental surgery in this state, who is not entitled to register under the preceding section, upon first passing a satisfactory examination before said board, in anatomy, physiology, pathology, therapeutics, chemistry and the theory and practice of dentistry; and on payment of the fee as provided in section seven of this act, shall be entitled to registration and shall receive a certificate as provided in section four of this act. SECT. 6. The secretary of said board may grant a tempo- Secretary may rary permit to practice dentistry to any suitable person who permit to prac. shall file with said secretary his application therefor, and shall deposit with him the sum of ten dollars, to be applied towards the payment of said applicant's examination fee. Such permit shall be valid only until the next meeting of said board. grant temporary tice. SECT. 7. The board shall receive from the applicant for Fees. each certificate issued under section four of this act, the sum of one dollar. For the examination of each person under the provisions of section five, twenty dollars, which shall in no case be returned but shall entitle the applicant to another examination without payment of additional fees. The above fees shall be in full for all services and expenses. SECT. 8. Nothing in this act shall be so construed as to restrict or interfere with physicians and surgeons in the discharge of their professional duties, or with any citizen in the extraction of teeth in cases of emergency. Approved March 4, 1891. Physicians and surgeons shall not be restricted. CHAP. 44 Sec. 119, ch. 51, When connecting railroads do not agree as to transportation of passengers and freight. they may apply to the commission ers to make award in the matter. Chapter 44. An Act to amend section one hundred and nineteen of chapter fifty-one of the Revised Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: Section one hundred and nineteen of chapter fifty-one of the revised statutes, is hereby amended by adding and inserting after the word "matters" in the third line of said section the following: 'or when the managers of the latter road neglect or fail or refuse to perform the requirements, provisions or conditions of the charter under which they hold and operate their railroad and acts additional and amendatory thereto,' so that said section as amended, shall read as follows: 'SECT. 119. When the managers of a railroad authorized to cross or connect with another road, are unable to agree therewith, as to transportation of passengers and freight over their roads, and upon other matters, or when the managers of the latter road neglect or fail or refuse to perform the requirements, provisions or conditions of the charter under which they hold and operate their railroad and acts additional and amendatory thereto, they may apply to said commissioners in writing, and either of them may indorse an order of notice thereon to all interested, fixing a time and place for hearing; and the applicant shall cause such order to be complied with. At such hearing any corporation or person claiming to be interested, may be made a party and be heard thereon, though not named in the application; said commissioners have the authority of courts of law to summon witnesses, and compel their attendance and testimony, and depositions may be taken and used as in suits at law. When the hearing is closed, they shall determine and award the rates for transporting passengers, freight or cars over the road of each, or over any road on which either is a common carrier by contract or otherwise, and all other matters in controversy between the two roads arising from such connecting or crossing, or the times of doing so; and may require either party to give security to the other for the payment of balances resulting from their mutual business, on such terms as they deem equitable; and may determine that their award may be suspended, after its acceptance, at the election of the party injured by the non-performance of the conditions thereof by CHAP. 45 the other.' Approved March 4. 1891. Chapter 45. An Act in addition to chapter twenty-seven, chapter seventeen, section twenty-three of chapter one hundred and thirty-three, and section one, chapter one hundred and thirty-five of the Revised Statutes, with amendments thereto, relating to Intoxicating Liquors. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: All of the provisions of chapter twenty-seven, chapter seventeen, section twenty-three of chapter one hundred and thirty-three, and section one of chapter one hundred and thirty-five of the revised statutes, with all amendments thereof, and all additions thereto, so far as they relate to intoxicating liquors, are hereby made to apply to all intoxicating liquor imported in the original package. Approved March 4, 1891. An Act to amend section sixty-four of chapter seventy of the Revised Statutes, relating to Insolvency Proceedings. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: 1893-240 Section sixty-four of chapter seventy of the revised statutes sec. 64, ch. 70. R. S., amended. Any person whose debts do not amount to assignment. $300 may make is hereby amended, so that it shall read as follows: 'SECT. 64. Any person whose debts do not amount to three hundred dollars, may at any time assign, convey and deliver to the register of the probate court of the county within which he resides, all of his real and personal estate, rights and credits not exempt from attachment and seizure on execution, together with a schedule of the same, signed by such debtor, and a list of all his creditors, with their places -proceedings. of residence, so far as known, and thereupon the register shall, with the approval of the judge, appoint the time for a hearing thereon before the judge, or such person as he appoints to take such examination, and shall give such notice СНАР. 46 , for to the creditors, of the time and place of such hearing as |