Medical Practice Laws 
of Michigan 
Act No. 237, Public Acts of 1899, Amended by 
Act No. 191, of 1903, Act No. 56, of 1905, 
Act No. 161, of 1905, Act No. 207, of 
1905, Act. No. 164. of 1907, Act. 
No. -95-, of 1913. MEDICAL PRACTICE LAWS 
OF MICHIGAN 
AN ACT 
To Provide for the Examination, Regulation. 
Licensing and Registration of Physicians 
and Surgeons, and for the Punishment 
of Offenders Against this Act, and 
to Repeal Acts and Parts of 
Acts in Conflict Therewith. 
The people of the State of Michigan enact: 
Section 1. That the governor shall appoint, 
by and with the advice and consent of the sen- 
ate, ten resident electors of the State, who 
shall constitute a Board of Registration in 
Medicine. Not more than five of the persons so 
appointed shall be from the school of medi- 
cine known as regular; not more than two 
persons so appointed shall be from the school 
of medicine known as homeopathic; not more 
than two of the persons so appointed shall 
be ■ from the school of medicine known as 
eclectic; and not more than one of the per- 
sons so appointed shall be from the school of 
medicine known as physio-medical, and the 
governor may select such appointees from the 
latest lists filed in the office of the secretary 
of state at Lansing by each of the four legally 
incorporated State medical societies of the 
schools of medicine as herein mentioned afore- 
said, such lists to be certified to under oath 
of the president and secretary of each society 
respectively, and such lists to contain at least 
treble the number of names as each society has 
representatives on the board. But in the event 
that one or more of the societies above named, 
through their presidents or secretaries, shall 
from any cause neglect, omit or refuse to file 
as aforesaid, such lists or list, then and in that 
case the governor shall appoint or fill the 
vacancies in said board without reference to 
such list or lists which the aforesaid society or 
societies have for any cause neglected, omitted 
or refused to file with the secretary of state, as 
herein mentioned aforesaid; but the number of 
representatives from each of the schools of 4 
medicine shall be the same as provided for in 
this act. Al) persons so appointed shall be 
legally registered physicians of this State, shall 
be graduates in good standing of reputable 
colleges, and shall have been actively engaged 
in the practice of medicine in this State for at 
least six years immediately preceding the time 
of such appointment. The ten persons so 
appointed shall be appointed in two classes, 
each class to consist of five persons. The first 
class shall consist of those physicians appointed 
by the governor under act number two hundred 
and thirty-seven, laws of eighteen hundred nine- 
ty-nine, October first, A. D. nineteen hundred 
one, who shall serve during the time for which 
they were so appointed, namely: To October 
first, nineteen hundred five; and the second 
class shall be appointed to hold office for four 
years beginning with the first day of October 
of the present year, and both classes shall 
hold office until their successors are appointed; 
and thereafter the governor shall appoint, be- 
fore the first day of October of each biennial 
period, five persons qualified as aforesaid, in 
each class, to hold office for foui' years from 
the first day of October next ensuing. No mem- 
ber of said board shall belong to the faculty of 
any medical college or university. The gover- 
nor shall also fill vacancies occasioned by death 
or otherwise, and may remove any member 
for the continued neglect of duties required by 
this act. Vacancies in said board shall be filled 
in accordance with the provisions of this act 
for the establishment of the original board, and 
a person appointed to fill a vacancy shall hold 
office during the unexpired term of the member 
whose place he fills. The business of said board 
shall be transacted by and receive the con- 
current vote of from at least seven members. 
Sec. 2. The members of said board shall 
meet on the second Tuesday of October, 
eighteen hundred ninety-nine, at the State Capi- 
tol at Lansing, and shall then elect a president 
from their own number, and a secretary who 
need not be of their number, but each of whom 
shall hold their respective offices for two years, 5 
and shall have the power to administer oaths. 
Not less than seven members shall constitute 
a quorum of said board for transaction of 
business. The secretary shall give to the treas- 
urer of the State a bond in the penal sum of 
five thousand dollars, with sufficient sureties, 
to be approved by the Governor, for the faith- 
ful discharge of his duties. The said board 
shall hold two regular meetings in each year, 
beginning with the year eighteen hundred 
ninety-nine; one on the second Tuesday of 
October, eighteen hundred ninety-nine, and one 
on the second Tuesday of June, nineteen hun- 
dred, and so on, and such additional meetings 
at such times and places as it may determine. 
Sec. 3. On and after the date of the taking 
effect of this act, all men and women who are 
not already legally registered under act num- 
ber two hundred thirty-seven of the Public 
Acts of eighteen hundred ninety-nine, and acts 
amendatory thereto, and who wish to begin the 
practice of medicine, surgery and midwifery in 
any of its branches in this state, shall make 
application to the board of registration in medi- 
cine, to be registered and for a certificate of 
registration. This registration and certificate 
shall be granted to such applicants as shall 
furnish satisfactory proofs of being at least 
twenty-one years of age, and of good moral and 
professional character, but only upon compli- 
ance with the following conditions contained 
in one or either of subdivisions one and two 
of this section: 
First. The applicant shall be registered and 
given a certificate of registration if he or she 
shall satisfactorily pass an examination under 
the immediate authority and direction of the 
board upon the following subjects: Anatomy, 
histology and embryology, physiology, chemis- 
try and toxicology, bacteriology, pathology, 
diagnosis, hygiene and public health, medical 
jurisprudence, diseases of the eye, ear, nose 
and throat, obstetrics, gynecology and surgery, 
and such additional subjects made necessary 
by advances in medical education as the board 6 
may designate, said examination to be con- 
ducted as follows: 
(a) The examination may be taken as a 
whole in all of the subjects as aforesaid, and 
shall be designated as the primary-final exam- 
ination or said examination may be divided into 
a primary examination upon the subjects of 
anatomy, histology and embryology, physiology, 
chemistry and toxicology, and bacteriology, and 
a final examination upon the remaining sub- 
jects as aforesaid, not included in the primary 
examination. 
(b) The applicant shall file with the secre- 
tary of the board, at least one week prior to 
an examination, an approved application, 
through a blank furnished by the board, cover- 
ing the detail of his or her personal history, and 
preliminary and medical education, and such 
other evidence of qualification as the board 
may require; 
(c) The board may make such rules and 
regulations governing the conduct of the exam- 
inations as it shall deem necessary, and wilful 
violation of such rules and regulations shall 
subject the applicant to the loss of the exam- 
ination and fee; 
(d) The examination shall be made as prac- 
tical as possible in order to test the applicant's 
qualifications as a practitioner of medicine, the 
method of which shall be in accordance with 
the board's best judgment, and may be a writ- 
ten, clinical, laboratory or oral examination, or 
a combination of one or more of the above 
methods: 
(e) An average percentage of at least sev- 
enty-five per cent of correct answers on all the 
subjects listed under this section, and of not 
less than fifty per cent on each subject, shall 
be required of every applicant: Provided, That 
in the case of a qualified applicant who has 
been in reputable and legal practice at least 
five years, at the discretion of the board, this 
requirement of minimum percentage may be 
modified by the board to meet the necessities 
of the individual case. An accepted applicant 7 
£or the primary-final examination, or for the 
final examination, as noted in subdivision one 
(a) of this section, shall have a diploma from 
a legally incorporated, regularly established and 
recognized college of medicine within the states, 
territories. districts and provinces of the 
United States, or within any foreign country, 
having as a minimum requirement a four 
years' course of eight months in each calendar 
year: Provided, That such applicant shall 
have, prior to the beginning of his or her 
course in medicine, or registration or matricu- 
lation in a recognized medical college, as a 
minimum requirement, a diploma from a recog- 
nized and reputably high school, academy, col- 
lege or university, having a classical course, 
or an equivalent credential, or shall pass an 
examination equivalent at least to the mini- 
mum standard of preliminary education adop- 
ted and published by the board before a board 
of preliminary examiners appointed by and in 
accordance with the regulations of aforesaid 
board, and at such time and place as the board 
may designate. The applicant shall pay to 
such board of preliminary examiners a fee of 
five dollars prior to the examination: Provided, 
A student entering a college in Michigan, hav- 
ing a preliminary examination of a standard 
approved by the board of registration in medi- 
cine, shajl not be required to take this exam- 
ination: Provided, That this requirement of 
preliminary education shall not apply to those 
students who on the fourteenth day of October, 
nineteen hundred three, were regularly regis- 
tered as students of legally organized and 
'recognized medical colleges, but that the stand- 
ard of preliminary education shall equal at 
least the minimum standard in force in this 
state at the date of aforesaid registration of 
students: And provided also. That a higher 
requirement of medical education shall not 
apply to those graduates of legally organized 
and recognized medical colleges who had gradu- 
ated from such colleges prior to the date of the 
passage of act number one hundred ninety-one 
of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred three, 
but that the standard of medical education 8 
shall equal at least the minimum standard in 
force in this state at the date of graduation. 
Students of medicine in regular attendance at 
a recognized medical college and endorsed by 
said board as having fulfilled the legal require- 
ments of the state for entrance to, or matricu- 
lation in, recognized medical colleges, and who 
have completed, in accordance with the board's 
adopted minimum standard of medical educa- 
tion, in such recognized medical college, 
through attendance and examination, and not 
prior to the termination of the second year 
in such institution, among others the subjects 
of anatomy, histology, and embryology, physi- 
ology, chemistry and toxicology, and bacteri- 
ology, shall have the right to a primary exam- 
ination, as recorded under subdivision, one (a) 
of this section, upon prescribed subjects, said 
examination to be held at such times and 
places as may be determined by the board, and 
to receive from the board a certificate showing 
the credits received in the several subjects 
upo» which an examination shall have been 
had as aforesaid, and such credits obtained 
shall, at the election of the student, be included 
in and form a part of the examination hereto- 
fore called the final examination under sub- 
division one (a) of this section: Provided, That 
subsequent to graduation from a recognized 
medical college, in said final examination for a 
certificate of registration the applicant shall, if 
presenting said credits to the board at the time 
of his or her application for examination, be 
examined only in those remaining subjects pre- 
scribed under subdivision first of this section 
and which have not been listed as subjects of 
aforesaid primary examination. The applicant 
shall pay to the board a fee of twenty-five dol- 
lars prior to the examination, divided as fol- 
lows: Ten dollars for the primary examination, 
and fifteen dollars for the final examination. 
If such examinations are taken together, or as 
a whole, the fee shall be twenty-five dollars 
for such primary-final examination. No ad- 
ditional fee for registration shall be charged 
to those who successfully pass the examinations. 
The board shall, in the recognition of medical 9 
colleges, in its discretion, list such colleges in 
three or more classes or groups: Group one in- 
cluding those colleges which fulfill the ad- 
vanced requirements of this act and which 
maintain the board's standards of preliminary 
and medical education; group two including 
those colleges which have fulfilled the standard 
of medical education demanded by this state 
at the date of the diploma; and group three 
including those colleges whose courses are 
recognized only for advanced standing in 
recognized colleges listed under group one: 
Provided, That a diploma issued by a medical 
college listed by the board in one or more of 
the groups or classes as aforesaid, shall be 
recognized as a qualification under this act, 
in the event only of its representing the actual 
standards of preliminary and medical education 
within the provisions of this act. The board of 
registration in medicine shall, from time to 
time adopt minimum standards of preliminary 
and medical education, and no high school, 
academy, college, university or medical college, 
or other institution or board, shall be approved 
and designated or its diploma or certificate be 
recognized by said board under subdivision one 
of section three of this act, unless in the judg- 
ment of the board, it conforms with such stand- 
ard : 
Second. The applicant may, at the discretion 
of the board, be registered and given a certifi- 
cate of registration if he or she shall present 
satisfactory proof of the possession of a cer- 
tificate of registration or license which has 
been issued to said applicant within the states, 
territories, districts or provinces of the United 
States, or within any foreign country, where 
the requirements for the registration of said 
applicant at the date or his or her license shall 
be deemed by said board of registration in 
medicine to be equivalent to those of this act. 
The fee for registration from applicants of this 
class shall be fifty dollars, and for the endorse- 
ment of a certificate to another state five dol- 
lars. 10 
Third. The board is authorized to issue a 
license or certificate of registration to any per- 
son who desires to practice a system of treat- 
ment of human ailments or diseases, and who 
does not in such treatment use drugs or medi- 
cines, internally or externally, or who does not 
practice surgery or midwifery, under the pro- 
visions of this act: Provided, That the appli- 
cant for- such license or certificate of registra- 
tion shall have an accredited diploma from a 
high school, academy, college or university, or 
an equivalent credential, or shall pass an exam- 
ination before the board of preliminary exam- 
iners, such examination to be equivalent to a 
recognized high school diploma, as provided in 
subdivision one of this section, and shall pass 
an examination before the board upon the fol- 
lowing subjects: Anatomy, histology, and em- 
bryology, physiology, chemistry, bacteriology, 
pathology, diagnosis, hygiene and public health. 
This examination shall be concurrent with and 
equivalent to the examination provided for 
practitioners of medicine under section three, 
subdivision one, of this act, and shall be in 
harmony with the provisions of this section and 
subdivision covering such examination in the 
subjects as above specified: Provided, however, 
That such examination shall be a continuous 
one and not subject to a division into a pri- 
mary and a final examination. The fee for 
such examination shall be fifteen dollars. A 
practitioner under this subdivision shall not be 
permitted to use in any form the title of "doc- 
tor" or "professor" or any of their abbrevia- 
tions, or any other sign or appellation to his or 
her name which would in any way designate 
him or her as a physician or surgeon qualified 
under the provisions of section three, subdi- 
visions one and two of this act, or in violation 
of the provisions of this act. All persons 
granted a certificate of registration or license 
under the provisions of this subdivision three, 
shall also conform to the provisions of act 
number two hundred thirty-seven of the Public 
Acts of eighteen hundred ninety-nine, and acts 
amendatory thereto, except as provided in this 
subdivision: Provided, That all practitioners 11 
described fn section three, part three, who have 
been granted a diploma by a college incorpor- 
ated for the purpose of teaching their method 
of treatment and who file with the state board 
of registration in medicine, prior to October 
one, nineteen hundred thirteen, an affidavit 
stating that they have practiced in the state 
of Michigan for a period of two years prior to 
September one, nineteen hundred thirteen, shall 
be registered and authorized to practice with- 
out examination under the provisions of section 
three, part three, of this act. A fee of five 
dollars must accompany each application for 
registration under this provision; 
Fourth. If any person shall unlawfully ob- 
tain and procure himself or herself to be reg- 
istered under this section, whether by false 
and untrue statements contained in his appli- 
cation to the board of registration of medicine, 
or by presenting to said board a false or un- 
true diploma, certificate or license, or one 
fraudulently obtained, he shall be deemed guilty 
of a felony, and upon conviction thereof shall 
be punished by a fine of not less than three 
hundred dollars nor more than five hundred 
dollars, or by imprisonment at hard labor for 
not less than one year nor more than throe 
years, or both, at the discretion of the court, 
and shall forfeit all rights and privileges ob- 
tained or conferred upon him by virtue of 
such registration; 
Fifth. Any person who shall swear falsely 
in any affidavit or oral testimony made or given 
by virtue of the provisions of this act, or the 
regulations of the board of registration of medi- 
cine, shall be deemed guilty of perjury, and, 
upon conviction thereof, shall be subject to all 
the pains and penalties of perjury; 
Sixth. The board of registration of medicine 
may refuse to issue or continue a certificate of 
registration or license provided for in this sec- 
tion, to any person guilty of grossly unprofes- 
sional and dishonest conduct. The words "un- 
professional and dishonest conduct,'' as used in 
this act, are hereby declared to mean: 12 
(a) The procuring-, aiding or abetting in pro- 
curing a criminal abortion; 
(b) The obtaining of any fee on the assur- 
ance that an incurable disease can be perma- 
nently cured; 
(c) The wilfully betraying of a professional 
secret; 
(d) All advertising of medical business in 
which grossly improbable statements are made, 
or where specific mention is made in such 
advertisements of venereal diseases or diseases 
of the genito-urinary organs; 
(e) Having professional connection with, or 
lending one's name to an illegal practitioner of 
medicine; or having professional connection 
with any person or any firm or corporation who 
advertises contrary to the provisions of this 
section, or with any person who has been con- 
victed in a court of competent Jurisdiction 
under the provisions of this section; 
(f) All advertising, of any nature or kind, of 
any medicine, or of any means for the regula- 
tion or re-establishment of the menses. 
(g) All advertising of any matter of an 
obscene or offensive nature derogatory to good 
morals or contrary to act number sixty-two of 
the Public Acts of nineteen hundred eleven; 
(h) Employing or being employed by any 
capper, solicitor or drummer for the purpose of 
securing patients; or subsidizing any hotel 
or boarding-house with a like purpose, or pay- 
ing, or offering to any person, money or any 
other thing of value with a like purpose, or 
advertising to do so in any form whatsoever; 
or the division of fees in a consultation or a 
reference of a patient to a specialist, when no 
actual professional service is rendered by the 
physician referring the case, without the knowl- 
edge of the patient or the person concerned in 
the payment thereof; 
(i) Being guilty of offenses involving moral 
turpitude, habitual intemperance, or being 
habitually addicted to the use of morphine, 
opium, cocaine, or other drugs having a similar 
effect; or of prescribing or giving away any 13 
substance or compound containing alcohol or 
drug for other than legal and legitimate thera- 
peutic purposes; 
Seventh. It shall be a misdemeanor for any 
person to be guilty of "unprofessional and dis- 
honest conduct" as defined in this act. Any 
person who has been issued a certificate of reg- 
istration or license under this act, and who 
shall be charged with the commission of such 
misdemeanor, shall be tried in a court of com- 
petent criminal jurisdiction, and upon convic- 
tion thereof shall be fined for each offense not 
to exceed two hundred and fifty dollars, or shall 
be imprisined in the county jail not to exceed 
three months, or may be both fined and impris- 
oned, in the discretion of the court. The cre- 
ation of such misdemeanor by this act shall 
not be construed to supersede any existing 
remedy or punishment, whether civil or crim- 
inal, for any act embraced within the provisions 
of this act, but shall be construed to be in 
addition thereto. 
The board of registration in medicine may, 
upon the filing with it of a duly certified copy 
of a final conviction obtained in accordance 
with the provisions of this act, revoke or sus- 
pend for a limited period, not less than six 
months, the certificate or license of the person 
so convicted. The said board of registration 
in medicine may also revoke any certificate of 
registration or license of any person guilty of 
a criminal offense created by or embraced with- 
in the provisions of this act or within the pro- 
visions of any state, provincial, territorial or 
federal act in the United States or in foreign 
countries, when such criminal offense or such 
fraud or perjury shall have been legally estab- 
lished in a court of competent jurisdiction. 
Said board may also revoke any certificate of 
registration or license heretofore or hereafter 
granted upon mistake of material fact or by 
reason of fraudulent misrepresentation of fact 
by such applicant. Any person charged with a 
violation of the provisions of this subdivision 
seven of section three shall have a fair hearing 14 
before the board, upon sufficient notice of such 
hearing: Provided, That this section shall not 
apply to such forms of contract practice as are 
from time to time endorsed by this board. 
Sec. 5. All moneys received by said board 
shall be paid to the State Treasurer monthly, 
and shall be credited to the general fund of the 
State, and a receipt for the same shall be filed 
by the secretary of the said board in the office 
of the Auditor General. The incidential and 
traveling expenses of said board, and such sal- 
ary to the secretary as said board • may fix, 
shall be paid from such fund only. The mem- 
bers of said board, except the secretary, shall 
receive no compensation for their services, ex- 
cept necessary traveling and hotel expenses in 
attending meetings of said board; and in no 
case shall any more be paid than was actually 
expended. Such incidential and traveling ex- 
penses shall be approved by said board and 
sent to the Auditor General of the State, who 
shall draw his warrant upon the State Treas- 
urer for the amounts due, as in case of other 
bills and accounts under the provisions of law; 
Provided, That the amount so paid shall not 
exceed the amount received by the treasurer 
of the State from said Board in fees, as herein 
specified, and as much of said receipts as may 
be necessary is hereby appropriated for the 
compensation and expenses of said board as 
aforesaid. 
Sec. 6. Said board shall collect from the 
various county clerks of the state, each month, 
a report of all registrations made. Said board 
shall also keep a record of all moneys re- 
ceived and disbursed by it each month, and said 
record shall always be open to inspection at the 
office of the Secretary of State. Said board 
shall annually report to the Governor, on or 
before the first day of January of each year, the 
condition of medicine and surgery in this State, 
which report shall contain a full and complete 
record of all its official acts during the year, 
and shall also contain a statement of its re- 
ceipts and disbursements. Sec. 4. The person receiving a certificate of 
registration shall file the same, or a certified copy 
thereof, with the county clerk in the county 
where he resides, and said clerk shall file said 
certificate or the certified copy thereof and enter 
a proper memorandum thereof in a book to 
be provided and kept for that purpose, and 
may collect therefor a fee of fifty cents for each 
certificate or copy thus filed. And said county 
clerk shall, on the first day of each month, 
furnish to the secretary of said board a list of all 
certificates filed in his office during the preceding 
month on a blank provided for that purpose, 
and upon notice to him of the change of location 
or death of a person granted a certificate, or upon 
the revocation of the certificate granted such 
person, said county clerk shall enter at the ap- 
propriate places in the record so kept by him a 
memorandum of said facts; so that the record 
so kept by said county clerk shall correspond 
w'th the records of said board, so kept by the 
secretary thereof. In case a person having thus 
filed a certificate shall move into another county 
of the State, he shall procure from said county 
clerk a certified copy of said certificate, and file 
the same with the said county clerk of the county 
to which he shall so remove. Said county clerk 
shall file and enter the same with like effect, as 
if the same was the original certificate. 15 
Sec. 7. Any person who shall practice medi- 
cine or surgery in this State, or who shall ad- 
vertise in any form or hold himself or herself 
out to the public as being able to treat, -cure 
or alleviate human ailments or diseases, and 
who is not the lawful possessor of a certificate 
of registration or license issued under and pur- 
suant to act number two hundred thirty-seven 
of the Public Acts of eighteen hundred ninety- 
nine, or acts amendatory thereto, or without 
first complying with the provisions of this act, 
except as heretofore provided in section three 
of this act, shall be deemed guilty of a mis- 
demeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be 
punished by a fine of not more than two hun- 
dred dollars, or by imprisonment in the county 
jail for a period of not more than six months, 
or by both such fine and imprisonment, in the 
discretion of the court, for each offense. It 
shall be the duty of the prosecuting attorneys 
of the counties of this state to prosecute viola- 
tions of the provisions of this act. 
Sec. 8. This act shall not apply to the com- 
missioned surgeons of the United States army, 
navy or marine hospital service, in actual per- 
formance of their official duties, nor to regu- 
larly licensed physicians and surgeons from 
out of this state, in actual consultation with 
physicians and surgeons of this state, nor to 
dentists in the legitimate practice of their pro- 
fession. nor to temporary assistance in cases 
of emergency, nor to the domestic administra- 
tion of family remedies, nor to osteopaths prac- 
ticing under the provisions of act number one 
hundred sixty-two of the Public Acts of nine- 
teen hundred three, nor to optometrists regis- 
tered under act number seventy-one of the Pub- 
lic Acts of nineteen hundred nine, nor to 
chiropodists who confine their practice to 
chiropody and who do not use title of "doctor" 
or "professor" or any of their abbreviations, 
or any other prefix or affix in a medical sense 
to their names, nor to persons who confine their 
ministrations to the sick or afflicted to prayer 
and without the use of material remedies. 16 
Sec. 9. Any person who shall append the 
letters "M. D." or "M. B." or other letters in 
a medical sense, or shall prefix the title 
"doctor" or its abbreviation, or any sign or 
appellation in a medical sense, to his or her 
name, it shall be prima facie evidence of prac- 
ticing medicine within the meaning of this act. 
In this act, unless otherwise provided, the term 
"practice of medicine'' shall mean the actual 
diagnosing, curing or relieving in any degree, 
or professing or attempting to diagnose, treat, 
cure or relieve any human disease, ailment, 
defect or complaint, whether of physical or 
mental origin, by attendance or by advice, or 
by prescribing or furnishing any drug, medi- 
cine, appliance, manipulation or method, or by 
any therapeutic agent whatsoever. 
Sec. 10. It shall be the duty of the assessing 
officer at the time of making the annual assess- 
ment to make out a list of physicians residing 
within his township, village, district, ward or 
city, with the name, age and sex of each, and 
the length of time each has been engaged in 
practice. Such list shall be returned by the 
assessing officer to the county clerk, and by the 
county clerk recorded in a book in which are 
kept the records of the board, and annually on 
or before the first day of January such clerks 
shall furnish certified lists of the same to the 
Secretary of this Board. 
Sec. 11. An act entitled "An act to promote 
public health," approved June six, eighteen 
hundred eighty-three, and the act amendatory 
thereto, approved June twenty-seven, eighteen 
hundred eighty-seven, except as to all penalties 
which shall have accrued thereunder, are hereby 
repealed. 
Approved May 4th, 1913