QUALIFICATION.—It is unlawful for any person to practise medicine, surgery, or other obstetrics unless he have a diploma regularly issued by a medical college lawfully organized under the laws of the State wherein it is located, or a license issued and authorized by a board of medical examiners under and by virtue of the laws of any State or Territory. The diploma must state that the person named is qualified to practise medicine and surgery in all of its departments (Penal Code, 1887, s. 617, as amended Act of April 11th, 1893). A diploma granted for moneyed consideration or other article of value alone, or revoked or cancelled by the college by which it was issued or by act of the legislature, is not a sufficient qualification (_ib._, s. 618). Every practitioner of medicine, surgery, or obstetrics must register in the county recorder’s office his name, residence, and place of birth, and present his diploma or license, and the county recorder must make a copy of it under the record of his name, residence, and place of birth. The person registering must subscribe and verify an affidavit in writing, annexed to the copy as transcribed, that he is the identical person named in the diploma (_ib._, s. 619, as amended by Act of April 11th, 1893). DEFINITION, EXCEPTION.—Any person is regarded as practising medicine who professes publicly to be a physician or habitually prescribes for the sick, or appends to his name “M. D.,” but the act does not prohibit gratuitous services in cases of emergency; nor apply to lawfully commissioned surgeons and assistant surgeons of the United States army and those who were commissioned and mustered into the United States service in the great rebellion, or physicians or surgeons who have been in active practice for ten years and at least three years in the Territory, nor prevent practice and receiving pay in localities fifteen miles or more from the residence or office of a regular physician (_ib._, s. 620). OFFENCE.—Violation of the act is a misdemeanor (_ib._, s. 621). FEES.—To the county recorder, for registration, $5 (_ib._, s. 619). ARKANSAS. QUALIFICATION.—It is unlawful for any one to engage in the practice of medicine and surgery, or either, as a calling except as provided in the statute (Act April 14th, 1893, s. 1). A person engaging in the practice of medicine or surgery must be of good moral character, twenty-one years of age, and a graduate of some reputable college of medicine and surgery that requires for graduation not less than two courses of lectures, each in a different year (_ib._, s. 2). Before engaging in practice, such person must exhibit his diploma to some county clerk of the State and have it recorded. The clerk must give him a certificate of record, which may be attached to the diploma (_ib._, s. 3).