To Regulate the Practice of Optometry in the District of Columbia: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Public Health, Hospitals and Charities of the Committee on the District of Columbia, House of Representatives, Seventy-sixth Congress, First Session, on H.R. 278 and H.R. 5238, Bills to Regulate the Practice of Optometry in the District of Columbia

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Page 11 - ... by the Supreme Court of the United States upon writ of certiorari or certification as provided in sections 239 and 240 of the Judicial Code, as amended (USC, title 28, sees. 346 and 347).
Page 10 - Board, its member, agent, or agency, there to produce evidence if so ordered, or there to give testimony touching the matter under investigation or in question; and any failure to obey such order of the court may be punished by said court as a contempt thereof.
Page 10 - No objection that has not been urged before the Board, its member, agent, or agency, shall be considered by the court, unless the failure or neglect to urge such objection shall be excused because of extraordinary circumstances.
Page 10 - Columbia, within the jurisdiction of which the inquiry is carried on or within the jurisdiction of which said person guilty of contumacy or refusal to obey is found or resides or transacts business, upon...
Page 11 - ... and it shall file such modified or new findings, which,, if supported by evidence, shall be conclusive, and its recommendation, if any. for the modification or setting aside of its original order, with the return of such additional evidence.
Page 6 - Each member of the Board shall be a citizen of the United States...
Page 10 - Columbia, by filing in such court a written petition praying that the order of the Board be modified or set aside. A copy of such petition shall be forthwith served upon the Board, and thereupon the aggrieved party shall file in the court a transcript...
Page 167 - Board, and a copy of the charges, together with a notice of the time and place of hearing, shall be...
Page 11 - That the review by the court shall be limited to questions of law and that findings of fact by the commission, if supported by substantial evidence, shall be conclusive unless it shall clearly appear that the findings of the commission are arbitrary or capricious.
Page 32 - Optometry is said by a well known writer on the subject not to be a part of medicine, "either by inheritance, basic principles, development or practice." It is "an applied arm of optical science resting upon the work and discoveries of physicists and opticians through the ages down to modern times. It does not treat the eye, whether in health or disease, but adapts the light waves which enter the eye, in accordance with optical principles so as to produce focused and single vision with the least...

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