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be so paid that they will not lose too much in at- 

 tending to the public business. Neither should 

 they be compensated in fees, for that will block 

 efficiency ofttimes by making it an inducement, 

 when reciprocity of license is possible, for them 

 to be easy in their tests, in order to attract candi- 

 dates for examination who will later take recip- 

 rocal licenses in another state. Tests for license 

 must be based upon the law of supply and de- 

 mand: that is, the public should be entitled to a 

 full supply of the most comjDetent. In a section 

 where there are very few really competent veteri- 

 narians the standard should not be so high as 

 where the profession is already crowded. 



Licenses should not be issued by the board of 

 examiners, but in the name of the head of the 

 department, to whom the board should report. In 

 this way, the only dealings of the members of 

 the board of examiners with the applicant would 

 be in the examination itself. 



172. License Appeals. It sometimes happens 

 that a candidate feels that he has been unjustly 

 treated in an examination. Instances have been 

 known where the evidence showed at least a very 

 strong presumption that the claim was well found- 

 ed, and that the results were influenced by corrupt 

 motives on the part of one or more of the exam- 

 iners. Such applicants should have an opportu- 

 nity of appeal to some one competent to decide 

 the matter. The courts have no jurisdiction, un- 

 less a question of law be involved; and a governor 

 having no scientific knowledge of the subject is 

 therefore unfitted to make a decision. Witli such 

 an arrangement as here proposed there is provi- 



