EXCEPTIONS.—The act does not prohibit gratuitous services in cases of emergency; nor apply to lawfully commissioned surgeons of the United States army or navy practising their profession (_ib._, s. 11, as amended 1877-78, c. 576). ITINERANT VENDERS.—A license of $100 a month is exacted from itinerant venders of drugs, nostrums, ointments, or appliances for treatment of disease, and from persons publicly professing to cure or treat disease, injury, or deformity by any medicine, drug, or drugs, nostrum, manipulation, or other expedient (Act 1877-78, c. 576, amending Act 1875-76, c. 518, s. 12). PENALTY.—The penalty for violation of the act is a fine of from $50 to $500, or imprisonment in the county jail from 30 to 365 days, or both, for each and every offence. Filing or attempting to file the diploma or certificate of another, or a forged affidavit of identification, is a felony, punishable the same as forgery (_ib._, s. 13; Act 1877-78, c. 918, s. 7). FORMER PRACTITIONERS.—Holders of certificates theretofore granted by the board of examiners existing by the appointment of the California State Medical Society of Homœopathic Practitioners are excused by the Act 1877-78, c. 918, s. 7, from obtaining new certificates. REJECTED APPLICANT.—A certificate issued by one board to an applicant rejected by another within a year is null and void (_ib._, s. 9). FEES.—To secretary of board, for examining genuine diploma, $5. If diploma fraudulent or property of another, $20 (Act 1877-78, c. 576, s. 3; amending Act 1875-76, c. 518, s. 4). To county clerk, for recording certificate, usual recording fees (Act 1875-76, c. 518, s. 6). COLORADO. BOARD OF EXAMINERS.—The State board of medical examiners is composed of nine practising physicians of known ability and integrity, graduates of medical schools of undoubted respectability, six of the regular school, two of the homœopathic, and one of the eclectic school or system, appointed by the governor (Mills’ “Annotated Statutes” 1891, s. 3,547). QUALIFICATION.—Every person practising medicine must possess the required qualifications. If a graduate in medicine, he must present his diploma to the State board of medical examiners for verification, or furnish other evidence conclusive of his being a graduate of a legally chartered medical school in good standing. The board issues its certificate, and such diploma or evidence and certificate are conclusive. If not a graduate of a legally chartered medical school in good standing, the person must present himself before the board for examination. All persons who have made the practice of medicine and surgery their profession or business continuously for ten years, and can furnish satisfactory evidence thereof to the State medical examiners, shall receive a license to continue (_ib._, s. 3,550).