PRACTICE OF VETERINARY SURGERY 49 



practice involves, and the opportunities for unde- 

 tected fraud, demand this additional protection. 

 What shall be the moral standard, so long as it 

 is reasonable, is a matter for the legislature to 

 decide.^ 



Under the public act of 1899 in Michigan, estab- 

 lishing the State Veterinary Board it was held 

 that the board had no discretionary authority to 

 determine whether a college of "Veterinary Med- 

 icine and Surgery" existing under the Compiled 

 Laws of 1897 is a regular school or college; or to 

 refuse to give a certificate to practice to a person 

 holding a diploma from such college.^*^ A later 

 statute of the same state provided that no person 

 shall be registered as a veterinarian, or veterinary 

 surgeon, without proof that he is the lawful pos- 

 sessor of a diploma from a regular veterinary 

 college, or the veterinaiy department of a state 

 institution of learning, or college of medicine, 

 having at least three sessions of six months each. 

 A veterinarian who had graduated from such an 

 institution made application for registration and 

 vv^as refused by the board. He appealed to the 

 courts, and the decision was that an applicant 

 must have actually attended three courses of six 

 months each; and the fact that at the time he re- 

 ceived his diploma from a veterinary college it 

 had adopted the three years course would not 



5 Dent V. West Virginia, 129 man v. State, 109 Ind. 278; 



U. S. 114; Hawker v. New State v. Call (N. C), 28 S. E. 



York, 170 U, S, 189; State v. 517; Collins v. State, 32 S. C. 



State Medical Examining R. (U. S.) 286. 

 Board, 32 Minn. 324; Thomp- lo Wise v. State Veterinary 



son V. Hazen, 25 Me. 104 ; State Board, 138 Mich. 428, 101 N. 



V. Hathaway, 115 Mo. 36; East- W. 562. 



