CIVIL PENALTY.—A practitioner of medicine or surgery failing to comply with this act shall not be exempt from military or jury duty, nor be permitted to collect fees for services rendered, nor be allowed to testify as a medical or surgical expert in legal or State medicine, in any court, nor to execute any certificate as surgeon or physician, nor to hold any medical office, nor to be recognized by the State, or any parish, or municipal corporation, as a physician or surgeon, nor entitled to enjoy any of the privileges, rights, or exemptions granted to physicians and surgeons by the laws of this State; and shall forfeit $100 for each violation, to be recovered in a civil action in the name of and for the benefit of the Charity Hospital at New Orleans, and in addition shall be subject to criminal prosecution (_ib._, s. 6). EXCEPTIONS.—The act is not applicable to practitioners of medicine or surgery residing and practising in other States, who may be summoned in special instances to attend patients in the State of Louisiana by any registered physician (_ib._, s. 7). PENALTY.—Whoever shall practise or offer to practise medicine or surgery, for pay, without complying with the foregoing act, is guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine of not less than $50 or imprisonment for not more than three months, or both, at the discretion of the court (Act 1886, No. 55, s. 1). No criminal prosecution shall bar the imposition of a fine by civil process, nor shall the imposition of such fine bar criminal prosecution (_ib._, s. 2). EXCEPTIONS.—This act is not applicable to practitioners of medicine or surgery residing and practising in other States, who may be summoned in special instances to attend patients in the State by any registered physician (_ib._, s. 3). FEES.—To board of health, for every diploma certified, 50 cents (_ib._, s. 1). To officer before whom affidavit is made, 50 cents (_ib._, s. 2, 3). Recording same, $1 (_ib._, s. 2). To clerk of court, for copy of original affidavit, 50 cents (_ib._, s. 2). To State board of health, for copy of original affidavit, 50 cents (_ib._, s. 3). MAINE. QUALIFICATION, PENALTY.—No person who has not received a medical degree at a public medical institution in the United States, or a license from the Maine Medical Association, shall recover compensation for medical or surgical services, unless previous to such service he had obtained a certificate of good moral character from the municipal officers of the town where he then resided (Rev. Stats., 1883, c. 13, s. 9). MARYLAND. QUALIFICATION.—By the Act of 1892, c. 296, s. 1, 39, it is provided that every person not now practising medicine and surgery, who shall hereafter begin to practise medicine and surgery in any of its departments, shall possess the qualifications required by the act.