No person is entitled to registration or license unless he shall satisfy the council that he has passed a matriculation or preliminary examination; that after passing such examination he has followed his studies for not less than four years, one of which may be under the direction of one or more general practitioners duly licensed; that during such four years he has attended at some university, college, or incorporated school of medicine in good standing, courses of lectures amounting together to not less than twelve months on general anatomy, on practical anatomy, on surgery, on practice of medicine, on midwifery, on chemistry, on materia medica and pharmacy, and on the institutes of medicine or physic, and one three-months’ course of medical jurisprudence; that he has attended the general practice of an hospital in which are not less than fifty beds under the charge of not less than two physicians or surgeons, for not less than one year or two periods of not less than six months each; that he has also attended two three-months’ courses or one six-months’ course of clinical medicine, the same of clinical surgery; that he has, after an examination in the subjects of the course, obtained a degree or diploma from such university, college, or incorporated medical school if such institution require a four-years’ course for its diploma, or for the want of such degree or diploma that he has satisfactorily passed an examination in the various branches hereinbefore specified before the examiners appointed by the council; that he is not less than twenty-one years of age; that he has paid to the registrar of the council a fee of ten dollars. The council has power, subject to the approval of the governor in council, to make alterations as may be required in the foregoing curriculum. If any person apply for registration as a practitioner of any system of medicine, the registered practitioners of that system have the right to appoint an examiner or examiners on the subjects peculiar to that system, viz., materia medica, pharmacy, and therapeutics, and if they neglect so to do the council has the power to appoint such examiner or examiners (_ib._, s. 12). The last preceding section does not apply to persons in actual practice entitled to register under sec. 38. Any person producing to the council conclusive evidence that he has passed a matriculation or a preliminary examination, as required by this act for persons beginning medical studies in New Brunswick, that he has before graduating or taking a diploma studied at least four years as provided in sec. 12, or pursued what the council deem an equivalent course of study and has passed a final examination in the subjects of such course, or, for the want of such requirement, shall have fulfilled such conditions as the council may determine, and shall pay a fee of ten dollars, shall be entitled to registration and to receive a license to practise (_ib._, s. 13).