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he resides. Any person removing to another county to prac¬ 
tice 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 person holding such 
license who shall refuse and neglect to prominently display 
in his office, or file a copy of the same with the County 
Clerk, as above directed, within six months after receiving 
such license, shall forfeit his license ; and no license when 
once forfeited shall be restored to the original holder except 
on payment to said State Veterinary Medical Board the sum 
of twenty-five dollars as a penalty for such failure, neglect, 
or refusal. 
Sec. 7 Any person shall be regarded as practicing vet¬ 
erinary medicine and surgery, within the meaning of this Act, 
who shall have received a license as mentioned in section 
five. But nothing in this Act shall be construed to prohibit 
members of the medical profession for prescribing for domes¬ 
tic animals in case of emergency, and collecting a fee there¬ 
for ; nor to prohibit gratuitous services in an emergency, 
nor prevent any person from practicing veterinary medicine 
or surgery on any animal belonging to himself or herself. 
And this' Act shall not apply to commissioned veterinary 
surgeons in the United States Army. 
Sec. 8. Any person practicing veterinary medicine or 
surgery in this State contrary to the provisions of this Act 
shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, the penalty of which shall 
be a fine of not less than one hundred dollars ($ioo) nor more 
than five hundred dollars ($500), or by imprisonment of not 
exceeding six (6) months, or both. 
Sec. 9. This Act shall take effect sixty days from on 
and after its passage. 
SOCIETY MEETINGS. 
NEW YORK STATE VETERINARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION. 
The fourth semi-annual meeting of this association was 
held in Buffalo, on the nth and 12th of October. On the 
first day the meeting was called to order at 10.15 A.M., Vice- 
