PENALTY.—A person practising without lawful registration or in violation of this article forfeits to the county $50, for each violation and for every day of unlawful practice. To practise under a false or assumed name or falsely personate another practitioner of like or different name is a felony. The violation of the other provisions of the act, or buying, selling, or fraudulently obtaining a medical diploma, license, record, or registration, or aiding or abetting such buying, selling, or fraudulently obtaining, or practising medicine under cover of a diploma or license illegally obtained, or signed and issued unlawfully or under fraudulent representation or misstatement of fact in a material regard, or after conviction of a felony attempting to practise medicine, or appending “M.D.” to the name or assuming to advertise the title of doctor in such manner as to convey the impression that one is a legal practitioner of medicine or any of its branches without having legally received the medical degree, is a misdemeanor punishable with a fine of not less than $250, or imprisonment for six months for the first offence, and for subsequent offences with a fine of not less than $500 or imprisonment for not less than one year, or both fine and imprisonment (_ib._, s. 159). DEFINITIONS.—As used in the article, university means the University of the State of New York. Medical school means any medical school, college, or department of a university registered by the regents as maintaining a proper medical standard and as legally incorporated. Medicine means medicine and surgery; physician means physician and surgeon (_ib._, definitions). FEES.—To regents, for examination, $25 (_ib._, s. 145). To regents, for license without examination under sec. 148, $10 (_ib._, s. 148). To county clerk, for registering affidavit and certificate, $1 (_ib._, s. 149). To county clerk, for registration in an additional county, 25 cents (_ib._, s. 150). NORTH CAROLINA. QUALIFICATION.—No person can lawfully practise medicine or surgery, or any of the branches thereof, nor in any case prescribe for the cure of disease for a fee or reward unless he shall have been first licensed (Code 1883, s. 3,122, as amended Act of 1885, c. 117, s. 1). The board of medical examiners of the State consists of regularly graduated physicians appointed by the medical society of the State (_ib._, s. 3,123, 3,126). The board must examine all applicants for a license to practise medicine or surgery, or any of the branches thereof, on anatomy, physiology, surgery, pathology, medical hygiene, chemistry, pharmacy, materia medica, therapeutics, obstetrics, and the practice of medicine, and grant to a competent applicant a license or diploma authorizing him to practise medicine and surgery or any of the branches thereof (_ib._, s. 3,124).