No person is entitled to be registered or to receive a license to practise unless he satisfy the board that he has passed the matriculation or preliminary examination; that after passing such examination he has followed his studies during a period 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 the practice of medicine, on midwifery, on chemistry, on materia medica and pharmacy, and on the institutes of medicine or physiology, and one three-months’ course of medical jurisprudence; that he has attended the general practice of a hospital in which are not less than fifty beds under the charge of not less than two physicians or surgeons, for a period of 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, and 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, or, for want of such degree or diploma, that he has satisfactorily passed an examination in the various branches hereinbefore specified before examiners to be appointed by the provincial medical board; that he is not less than twenty-one years of age; and that he has paid the registrar twenty dollars. The provincial medical board has power, subject to the approval of the governor in council, to make such alterations in the foregoing curriculum as may from time to time be required (_ib._, s. 9). The last preceding section does not apply to any person in actual practice duly registered under chap. 56 of Revised Statutes, 3d series; such persons are entitled to be registered and receive a license to practise under this chapter without fee. Notwithstanding such section, any person on producing to the said board conclusive evidence that he has passed a matriculation or preliminary examination such as is required for persons beginning their medical studies in Nova Scotia; that he has, before graduating or taking a diploma, studied for at least four years in the manner provided in sec. 9 or pursued what the board deem an equivalent course of study, and has passed a final examination in the subjects of such course; or, for the want of any of such requirements, shall have fulfilled such conditions as the board may determine and shall pay a fee of twenty dollars, shall be entitled to be registered and to receive a license to practise (_ib._, s. 10).