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SOCIETY MEETINGS. 
State Board of Agriculture that controls the contagious dis¬ 
eases of our live-stock should be under the charge and con¬ 
trol of veterinarians, and would like the sense of this association 
on the subject. 
W. S. Kooker, Chairman. 
T. B. Rayner. 
Jas. W. Sallade. 
Francis Bridge. 
The report of the committee was received and ordered to be 
spread upon the minutes, when on motion a committee of three 
was appointed by the chair to draw suitable resolutions in 
regard to establishing a state board of veterinary examiners. 
This committee consisted of Drs. Zuill, Pearson and Kooker, 
who subsequently offered the following resolution, which was 
adopted: 
Whereas , It is the sense of this association that the regis¬ 
tration bill fails to accomplish the purpose for which it was 
intended, that is, confining the practice of veterinary medicine 
to qualified practitioners, be it 
Resolved , That the Legislative Committee of the Pennsyl¬ 
vania State Veterinary Medical Association of Pennsylvania be 
instructed to draft a bill, the object of which shall be better 
regulation and practice of veterinary medicine, to provide a 
Board of Veterinary Examiners to examine all persons desiring 
to practice veterinary medicine in this state on the various sub¬ 
jects of their profession. The board to be appointed as there¬ 
inafter provided, and to be known as the State Veterinary 
Examiner’s Board. 
W. S. Kooker. 
W. L. Zuill. 
It was further recommended that there be one member in 
each county which was represented in this association appointed 
to look after the county registry of veterinarians. 
It was moved and seconded that this association send its 
Committee on Legislation to formulate a bill in connection with 
