PRACTICE OF VETERINARY SURGERY 63 



involve moral turpitude. The term ' ' moral turpi- 

 tude" refers to something immoral in itself, re- 

 gardless of the fact that the act may be punish- 

 able by the terais of the statute. The revocation 

 was not sustained.®^ 



39. Attorney for Board of Examiners. In prose- 

 cutions for violation of the medical practice acts 

 it is frequently necessary to have the services of 

 an attorney, as well as for legal advice which the 

 board may from time to time desire. Medical 

 license boards are state officers, and it is the duty 

 of the Attorney General of the state to render this 

 service, either by his own service, or that of his 

 office assistants detailed for such special work, 

 or through the ordinary prosecuting attorneys of 

 the various counties, by whatever name they may 

 be called. Unless the law specifically provides for 

 the employment of an attorney for the consulta- 

 tion of a board, or for the prosecution of violators 

 of acts requiring licenses, the board has no author- 

 ity for such employment ; neither is there authority 

 for the payment for such ser^dce. By general 

 statutes these duties devolve upon the office of the 

 Attorney General and the ordinary state's attor- 

 neys, or prosecuting authorities.^- By the consti- 

 tutions of many states it is provided that there 

 shall be no subject treated in an act which is not 

 indicated in the title; and it is also provided that 

 appropriation acts shall contain no other legis- 

 lation. Under such conditions, even where the 



51 Fort V. City of Brinkley, Pac. 630; Eeports, Attorney 

 87 Ark. 400, 112 S. W. 1084. General, Illinois (1902), 391; 



52 State ex rel. Board of :\lefl. (1910), 305. 

 Exrs. V. Clausen (Wash.), 146 



