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EDITORIAL. 
Society will be productive of much good, since it is directed at 
the very foundation of the law-making power, and an attack 
upon the same force in other States cannot but bring this just 
and long-delayed cause in its proper aspect before those who 
should be made to understand the true merits of the appeal. 
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A Test. —Notwithstanding the fact that a law, with a num¬ 
ber of amendments, exists in the State of New York requiring 
all practitioners of veterinary medicine to register at the county 
clerk’s office and to obtain the necessary State certificates or 
licence, it is a well-known fact that there are many in that State 
who ignore the law and go on practising here and there, to-day 
in that city, to-morrow in another. Through the exertions of 
the Committee of the Veterinary Society of the County of New 
York, of which Dr. O’Shea is the chairman, it has been decided 
that the validity of the law should be tested, and to that effect, 
at one of the last meetings of the Society, measures were voted 
authorizing action of the committee. A gentleman from Kansas 
City was known to be practicing in New York for some time 
without having complied with the law ; a warrant was obtained 
for his arrest, and was executed as he was about entering the 
Horse Show. When arrested he claimed that he had heard that 
he was going to get into trouble, and that then he sold his in¬ 
struments and went out of business. We hope that the explan¬ 
ations will not allow him to escape the punishment imposed by 
the law. The Veterinary Society of the County of New York 
has done well and deserves great credit for its action. Veter¬ 
inarians of the State will no doubt send their congratulations 
to the chairman of the committee, who, we are informed, did on 
that occasion, as he always has done when working in similar 
capacities for the benefit of the profession, acted quietly and 
modestly, being satisfied only with the good that resulted from 
his efforts. 
Section Work In the U.S.V.M.A.—We are pleased to 
note that the observations made by this journal in its account 
