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Virginia’s new veterinary law. 
it prevent any person from prescribing- for live stock who 
does not claim to be a veterinarian or veterinary surgeon. 
4. There shall be for this State a board of veterinary 
examiners, consisting of five members, whose term of office 
shall be four years, or until their successors are appointed 
and qualified. The term of office of the board first appointed 
after this act takes effect shall commence on the first day 
of May, eighteen hundred and ninety-six. 
5. The said board shall consist of men learned in veteri¬ 
nary medicine and surgery, and shall be appointed by the 
Governor on or before the first day of May, eighteen hun¬ 
dred and ninety-six, and every fourth year thereafter, from 
a list of ten names to be recommended by the Virginia State 
Veterinary Medical Association every four years. Vacancies 
occurring in such board for unexpired terms shall be filled 
bv the Governor by selection from the five names not ap¬ 
pointed from the ten last recommended by the association. 
Such recommendation shall be by vote of a majority present 
at some meeting of the said association and shall be certified 
to the Governor by the president and secretary of said asso¬ 
ciation, provided, if said association fail to make such recom¬ 
mendations prior to the time of appointment the Governor 
shall appoint such board, either in whole or in part, with¬ 
out regard to such recommendations. If any of said 
examiners shall cease to reside in the State, his office shall 
be deemed vacant. 
6. The members of said board shall qualify by taking 
the usual oath of office before the county or corporation 
court of the countv or corporation in which they respectivelv 
reside, or before the judge of such court in vacation. The 
officers of said board shall be a president, vice-president, 
and secretary (who shall also act as treasurer), said officers 
to be members of and selected by the board. Regular meet¬ 
ings of the board shall be held at such times and places as 
the board may prescribe, and special meetings may be held 
upon the calf of the president and any two members, but 
there shall be no less than one regular meeting each year. 
Three members of the board shall constitute a quorum. The 
board may prescribe rules, regulations, and by-laws for its 
own proceedings and government, and for the examination 
by its members of candidates for the practice of veterinary 
medicine and surgery. 
7. It shall be the duty of said board, at any of its meet¬ 
ings, to examine all persons making application to them who 
shall desire to commence the practice of veterinary medicine 
