PENALTY.—Practising medicine or surgery without complying with the act is a misdemeanor punishable with a fine of from $50 to $500 or imprisonment in a county jail from thirty days to three hundred and sixty-five days, or both, for each offence. Filing or attempting to file as his own the certificate of another, or a forged affidavit or identification, is a felony punishable the same as forgery in the second degree (_ib._, s. 12). FORMER PRACTITIONERS.—Persons practising in the State at the time of the passage of the act were allowed sixty days afterward to register (_ib._, s. 13). FEES.—To the secretary of the board, for examining a genuine diploma, $1. To the secretary of the board, for examining a fraudulent diploma, or a diploma not owned by the possessor, $20 (_ib._, s. 4). To the county clerk, for recording certificate, usual fee (_ib._, s. 6). To board of examiners, for examination, $10 (_ib._, s. 8). To the Secretary of the State, from itinerant vender, for license, $100 per month (_ib._, s. 11, as amended February 21st, 1891). PENNSYLVANIA. [PRESENT LAW.—The following is the law at present in effect; for the new law which goes into effect hereafter, see below.] QUALIFICATION.—The standard of a practitioner of medicine, surgery, or obstetrics consists of a good moral character, a thorough elementary education, a comprehensive knowledge of human anatomy, human physiology, pathology, chemistry, materia medica, obstetrics, and practice of medicine and surgery and public hygiene (Act March 24th, 1877, s. 1). It is unlawful for any person to announce himself as a practitioner of medicine, surgery, or obstetrics, or to practise as such, who has not received in a regular manner a diploma from a chartered medical school, duly authorized to confer upon its alumni the degree of doctor of medicine. The act does not apply to a resident practitioner who has been in continuous practice in the commonwealth for not less than five years prior to its passage (_ib._, s. 2). Before any person can lawfully engage in the practice of medicine, surgery, or obstetrics, or who has not a diploma as provided in sec. 2, he must make an affidavit under oath, or affirm before the prothonotary of the county in which he intends to practise, setting forth the time of continuous practice and the place or places where such practice was pursued in the commonwealth, and it shall be entered of record (_ib._, s. 3).