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provided for in Section II. And such practitioner shall be re¬ 
quired to register in the book kept for the purpose in the office 
of the prothonotary of the county in which he resides. 
§ 2. Any person who has assumed the title of veterinary 
surgeon or analogous title, in this commonwealth, for the five 
years preceding the passage of this act, without being entitled to 
the degree of veterinary surgeon or analogous title, shall be al¬ 
lowed to continue the use of this title; but such person shall 
appear before the prothonotary of the county in which he resides 
and make affidavit of that fact; he shall then be recorded as an 
“ existing practitioner,” 
§ 3. The prothonotary shall pnrchase a book of a suitable 
size, to be known as the Veterinary Medical Register of the 
county, and shall set apart 'one full page for the registration of 
each practitioner; and when any practitioner shall die or remove 
from the county, the prothonotary shall make a note of the same, 
and shall perform such other duties as are required by this act. 
§ 4. Every practitioner who shall be admitted to register shall 
pay to the prothonotary the sum of one dollar; which sum shall 
be compensation in full for registration. The prothonotary shall 
give a receipt for the same, and such registration shall take place 
within six months from the passage of this act. 
§ 5. Nothing in this act shall be so construed as to prevent any 
veterinary surgeon (if legally qualified to use the title) from using 
the title of “ veterinary surgeon ” or analogous title in this com¬ 
monwealth ; but if such veterinary surgeon opens an office or 
uses the title for the transaction of business, he shall be deemed 
1 a sojourner ” and shall conform to the requirements of this act. 
§ 6. Any person who may desire to commence the practice of 
veterinary surgery or medicine, or any of its branches, in this 
State after the passage of this act, and who holds a veterinary 
diploma, issued, or purporting to have been issued, by any vet¬ 
erinary college or university in this State, another State or 
foreign country, shall make affidavit before the prothonotary 
that his diploma has been regularly issued by a legally-chartered 
veterinary college or university, after which such person will 
be allowed to register as provided for in this act. 
