EDITORIAL. 
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to make the attack gigantic, decisive, and final we would advise 
every reader of the Review to act upon the advice given by 
Secretary Kelly, and let the communications be so earnest and 
emphatic that those who have the guidance of the bill will know 
what a reptile they are warming at their hearths ; and if it be 
properly placed before them we feel confident that the bill will 
never come from the committee to which it has been referred. 
The letter of Secretary Kelly and the bill itself are as fol¬ 
lows : 
State Board ok Veterinary Medical Examiners, 
Secretary’s Office, No. 195 Western Aye, 
Albany, N. Y., Jan. 19th, 1897. 
Dear Doctor :—Inclosed you will find a copy of a bill, which is in behalf of the 
“quack,” and an attempt to amend our law. We must defeat it. This can be done, if 
each member of our society will write his Senator and Assemblyman a personal letter, 
stating his objections, and requesting them to call on Assemblyman Horton, Chairman of 
the Committee on General Laws ; also write a letter to Assemblyman Horton, objecting 
to its passage, and asking for a hearing. Very respectfully, 
Wm. Henry Kelly, Sec’y. 
The Bill is as follows : 
State of New York —No. 137— In Assembly. 
Introduced by Mr. Ives - read once and referred to the committee on general laws. 
AN ACT 
TO AMEND CHAPTER THREE HUNDRED AND THIRTEEN OF THE LAWS OF EIGHTEEN 
HUNDRED AND EIGHTY-SIX, ENTITLED “AN ACT TO REGULATE THE PRACTICE OF 
VETERINARY MEDICINE AND SURGERY IN THE STATE OF NEW YORK.” 
The People of the State of Nezv York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact 
as follows : 
Section I. Section three of chapter three hundred and thirteen of the laws of eighteen 
hundred and eighty-six, entitled “An act to regulate the practice of veterinary medicine 
and surgery in the State of New York,” is hereby amended so as to read as follows 
| 3. Any person who has been practicing veterinary medicine and surgery, or any 
branch thereof, as a profession in this State, for a period of not less than five years pre¬ 
ceding the passage of this act, without having obtained a diploma or certificate from a 
legally chartered or incorporated veterinary college, university or society, as provided for 
in section two of this act, must register on or before January first eighteen hundred and 
ninety-eight, upon making and filing with the clerk of the county in which he resides, an 
affidavit stating that he has been so practicing veterinary medicine and surgery for the 
period hereinbefore prescribed. 
\ 2. This act shall take effect immediately. 
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A Very Important Regal Decision. —A decision of great 
interest to the veterinary medical profession was given by Mr. 
