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On December 21, 1917, respondent Board of Medical Examiners of the State of California issued to petitioner a certificate authorizing him to practice medicine and surgery. The document was of the kind known as a reciprocity certificate, that term being applied to a certificate issued without examination, under section 13 of the Medical Practice Act (Stats. 1913, p. 722, as amended Stats. 1917, p. 107), upon the production by an applicant for leave to practice medicine and surgery in California of a license certificate issued by the medical board of a sister state. Section 14 of the same act as amended (Stats. 1917, p. 109) authorizes the board of medical examiners to revoke any certificate issued by it when procured by the fraud and misrepresentation of the applicant. On August 30, 1920, there was filed with the board a complaint that petitioner had procured his reciprocity certificate through fraud and misrepresentation, and, after steps taken to acquire jurisdiction over petitioner and on October 19, 1920, the board made its order revoking the certificate. Thereafter petitioner applied to the superior court for a writ of review in the premises and it was issued. Upon a hearing…