504 
VETERINARY LEGISLATION. 
of the salary or other expenses of the State Veterinary 
Medical Board shall be paid out of the State Treasury. 
7.—All moneys received by said State Veterinary Medical 
Board as fees and penalties, in excess of the compensation 
and expense of the State Veterinary Medical Board, shall be 
annually paid into the State Treasury, and become a part of 
the General Fund of the State. 
Sec. 3. 1.—Said State Veterinary Medical Board shall 
examine all diplomas as to their genuineness. Each appli¬ 
cant not holding a diploma shall submit to a theoretical and 
practical examination before the State Veterinary Medical 
Board; said examination to be written or oral, or both, and 
sufficiently strict to satisfy said Board that the applicant is 
competent to practice veterinary medicine and surgery. 
2.—An examination fee of five dollars shall be paid to the 
State Veterinary Medical Board by the holder of a diploma, 
and ten dollars by an applicant not holding a diploma ; said 
money shall be paid by the applicant before examination. 
3.—In case of failure of approval, said fee shall be forfeited 
to the State Veterinary Medical Board. 
Sec. 4. All examinations of persons not graduates shall 
be made directly by the State Veterinary Medical Board, 
and the certificates given by said Board shall authorize the 
possessor to practice veterinary medicine and surgery in the 
State of California. All examinations of ungraduated practi¬ 
tioners must take place before the thirty-first day of Decem¬ 
ber, eighteen hundred and ninety-three. After that date no 
certificate shall be granted except to persons presenting diplo¬ 
mas from legally chartered colleges. 
Sec. 5. Upon the approval of credentials, or upon the 
examination of an applicant, said Veterinary Medical Board 
shall grant him or her a license to practice in this State, and 
shall receive therefor a fee of five dollars ; said license shall 
be signed by a majority of the Board. 
Sec. 6 . Any person qualified, as required by this Act, 
shall, upon receipt of his license to practice, have said license 
prominently displayed in his office, and a true copy thereof 
shall be filed in the office of the clerk of the county in which 
