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PENNSYLVANIA VETERINARY EXAMINING BOARD. 
into execution the requirements of the act, and though the law 
went into effect nominally on Sept, ist, not until Oct. nth were 
the appointments made, after earnest solicitation that certain 
difficulties in its execution might be obviated. On this latter 
date Governor Hastings named the appointments as follows, 
their terms to compute from Sept, ist, 1895 : for three years, W. 
Horace Hoskins and Simon J. J. Harger; for two years, J. C. 
McNeil, of Pittsburg, and Harry Walters, of Wilkesbarre ; for 
one year, J. W. Sallade, Pottsville. 
At 12 noon on November 13th the Board was sworn in at 
Harrisburg and their organization completed by the election of 
Dr. S. J. J. Harger as President and W. Horace Hoskins, Secre¬ 
tary. After a general conference of the methods to be followed 
the various subjects for examination were severally allotted to the 
different members of the Board and a sub-committee appointed 
to draft suitable by-laws for presentation and adoption at a sub¬ 
sequent meeting of the Board, held in Philadelphia, on the third 
Monday in December. At this meeting by-laws were adopted 
for the guidance of the Board, and no candidates presenting 
themselves for examination, the consideration of several alleged 
violations were referred to the Secretary for further investigation. 
One of these proved to be a graduate of Ontario, and who hav¬ 
ing changed his location several times, gave rise to the belief in 
the minds of one of our members that he was in violation of the 
act. The investigation found him properly registered in the State 
for several years and entitled to all the privileges of the several 
acts relating to the practice of veterinary science in our Com¬ 
monwealth. 
The second case has proved a very annoying one to the Board 
and will be prosecuted in the court channels this month. The 
violator, one E. S. Hudson, Qf York County, a former resident 
and citizen of Maryland, coming into the State during the year 
1895, a non-graduate and failing to register, was notified by local 
veterinarians of the dangerous position he was assuming. Sub¬ 
sequently he repaired to Harrisburg, the county seat of Dauphin 
County, and there on Oct. nth, 1895, in violation of the Acts 
of 1889 and 1895 he was registered by the County Prothonotary. 
On learning this we immediately placed ourselves in correspond¬ 
ence with the Prothonotary, and notifying him of the violation 
of the State statutes, which was thus perpetrated, he acknowl¬ 
edged the error, and will at the next session of the Court have 
issued a writ upon the said E. S. Hudson, to show cause why his 
name should not be stricken from the register, on the grounds 
