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VETERINARY LEGISLATIN. 
upon receipt of his license to practice, have said license filed in 
the office of the Clerk of the county in which he resides. Any 
person removing to another county to practice shall file the license 
in like manner in the county to which he removes. The holder 
shall pay to the County Clerk the usual fees for filing. Any 
failure, neglect, or refusal on the part of any person holding such 
license to file the same with the County Clerk as above directed, 
for a period of six months, shall forfeit his license ; and no license 
when once forfeited shall be restored except on the payment to 
said Board the sum of twenty-five dollars as a penalty for such 
failure, neglect or refusal. 
§ 8. Any person shall be regarded as practicing veterinary 
medicine and surgery within the meaning of this act who shall 
profess publicly to be a veterinary surgeon, or appends to his 
name any initials or title implying qualifications to practice, or 
who prescribes for or treats sick or injured domestic animals for 
compensation, either directly or indirectly. But nothing in this 
act shall be construed to prohibit members of the medical pro¬ 
fession from prescribing for domestic animals in cases of emer¬ 
gency, and collecting a fee therefor, nor to prohibit gratuitous 
services in cases of emergency. And this act shall not apply to 
commissioned veterinary surgeons in the United States Army. 
§ 9. Any person practising veterinary medicine or surgery 
in this State contrary to the provisions of this act, shall be guilty 
of a misdemeanor. 
§ 10. This Act shall take effect sixty days from and after its 
passage. 
AN ACT to Protect the Title of Veterinary Surgeon and 
to Regulate the Practice of Veterinary Medicine and 
Surgery in New Jersey. 
1. Be it enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the 
State of New Jersey , That every person who shall assume, or use, 
or cause to be used, any title pertaining to the practice of veter¬ 
inary medicine or surgery, or any of the branches of veterinary 
medicine or surgery, shall be a graduate of a legally chartered 
veterinary college or university, having the power or authority to 
confer the degree of veterinary surgeon or analogous title, except 
