The provincial medical board, among other powers, has the power to make regulations respecting the tariffs or rates to be charged in towns and counties for medical, obstetrical, or surgical advice, or for attendance or for the performance of any operation or for any medicines prescribed or supplied. The tariff must be approved by the lieutenant-governor in council, and can only come into force six months after its publication once in the Quebec _Official Gazette_, and that of the order in council approving the same. The tariff does not, in case of suit, obviate the necessity of proof of giving the advice, care, prescriptions, medicines, and other things therein mentioned (_ib._, art. 3,983). The said board has power to fix the fees for license and registration (_ib._, art. 3,984). QUALIFICATIONS OF CANDIDATE.—The qualifications of a candidate for a license are: 1. That he holds a certificate of study from a licensed physician for the period intervening between the courses of lectures which he has followed. 2. That he has reached the age of twenty-one years. 3. That he has followed his studies during a period of not less than four years, commencing from the date of his admission by the board to study medicine. 4. That during said four years he attended at some university, college, or incorporated school of medicine within Her Majesty’s possessions not less than two six-months’ courses of general or descriptive anatomy, of practical anatomy, of surgery, of the practice of medicine, of midwifery, of chemistry, of materia medica and general therapeutics, of the institutions of medicine or physiology and general pathology, of clinical medicine, and of clinical surgery; one six-months’ course or two three-months’ courses of medical jurisprudence, one three-months’ course of botany, one three-months’ course of hygiene, and a course of not less than twenty-five demonstrations upon microscopic anatomy, physiology, and pathology. 5. That he attended the general practice of a hospital in which are contained not less than fifty beds under the charge of not less than two physicians or surgeons, for not less than one and one-half years or three periods of not less than six months each. 6. That he has attended six cases of labor and compounded medicines for six months. Each six-months’ course shall have consisted of one hundred and twenty lectures except in the case of clinical medicine, clinical surgery, and medical jurisprudence. Of four years’ study required by this section, three six-months’ sessions, at least, must be passed in attending upon lectures at a university, college, or incorporated school of medicine recognized by the board.