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VETERINARY LEGISLATION. 
The members of said Board shall hold at least one meet¬ 
ing each year for the examination of applicants and as many 
other meetings as they may deem requisite. The first meet¬ 
ing of the said Board shall be held on the first Tuesday of May 
in the city of Syracuse, of which proper and timely notice 
shall be given through the veterinary journals of the State. 
Article 5. Five members of said Board shall constitute 
a quorum, and the concurring vote of a majority of the mem¬ 
bers present at a meeting at which there is a quorum shall be 
deemed the decision of the Board. 
Art. 6 . Every applicant for a license shall upon making 
his application pay to the Board of Examiners the sum of 
twenty dollars, and on receiving his certificate the further 
sum of five dollars. In case of failure at any such examination 
the applicant after the expiration of six months and within 
one year shall have the privilege of a second examination by 
the Board or by a committee of one or more of the Board 
without the payment of an additional application fee. 
Art. 7. From the income provided by this Act the ex¬ 
penses of the examiners shall be paid. Any surplus after all 
proper expenses incurred by the Board shall have been met, if 
any surplus shall remain, shall be apportioned among said ex¬ 
aminers pro rata, as compensation for their services. 
After July 1st, 1891, every person now practicing veterin¬ 
ary medicine and surgery in this State by virtue of Chapter 
313 of the Laws of 1886, who does not hold a certificate of 
graduation from some incorporated veterinary college or uni¬ 
versity or the Agricultural Department of Cornell University 
shall assume the title of “ Farrier ” until he shall obtain a cer¬ 
tificate of graduation from an incorporated veterinary col 
lege or the Agricultural Department ol Cornell University or 
a license to practice from the State Board of Examiners. And 
it shall be the duty of the County Clerk to write opposite the 
title the record of the veterinarians veterinary surgeon or any 
other like title of the name of every practitioner who has reg¬ 
istered under the provisions of Chapter 313 of the Laws of 
1886, and who does not before July 1st, 1891, produce a 
diploma as evidence of his graduation from some incorpora- 
