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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 veterinary 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 
was 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 
U. S. 114; Hawker v. New 
York, 170 U. 8S. 189; State v. 
State Medical Examining 
Board, 32 Minn. 324; Thomp- 
son v. Hazen, 25 Me. 104; State 
vy. Hathaway, 115 Mo. 36; East- 
man v. State, 109 Ind. 278; 
State v. Call (N. C.), 28 S. E. 
517; Collins v. State, 32 S. C. 
R. (U. 8.) 286. 
10 Wise v. State Veterinary 
Board, 138 Mich. 428, 101 N, 
W. 562, 
