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as provided for in section two; and such practitioner shall be re¬ 
quired to register in the book kept for that purpose, in the office 
of the county clerk of the county in which he resides. 
2. And be it enacted, That any person who has assumed the 
title of veterinary surgeon or analogous title, in this State, for the 
five years preceding the passage of this act, without being enti¬ 
tled to the degree of veterinary surgeon or analogous title, shall 
be allowed to continue the use of the title ; but such person shall 
appear before the county clerk of the county in which he resides 
and make affidavit of that fact; he shall then be recorded as an 
u existing practitioner.” 
3. And be it enacted, That the county clerk shall purchase a 
book of 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 county clerk shall make a note 
of the same, and shall perform such other duties as are required 
by this act. 
4-. And be it enacted, That every practitioner who shall be ad¬ 
mitted to register shall pay to the county clerk the sum of one 
dollar, which sum shall be compensation in full for registration; 
the county clerk shall give a receipt for the same, and such regis¬ 
tration shall take place within six months from the passage of 
this act. 
5. And be it enacted, That nothing in this act shall be so con¬ 
strued 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 State ; but if such veterinary surgeon opens 
an office or uses the title for the transaction of business, he shall 
be deemed “ a sojourner,” and shall conform to the requirements 
of this act. 
G. And be it enacted, That any person who may desire to com¬ 
mence 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 veterinary college or university in this State, anoth¬ 
er State or foreign country, shall make affidavit before the county 
