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VETERINARY LEGISLATION. 
lege and hospital devoted to the education of men in the severa 
departments of the medical sciences necessary to qualify them foi 
the practice of veterinary medicine and surgery, and for the pur¬ 
pose of awarding diplomas and conferring the degree of Doctor oi 
Veterinary Surgery. 
Third. —The term of existence of said corporation shall he 
fifty years. 
Fourth. —The business of said corporation shall be conducted 
by a Board of seven or more parties, and the names of the Trustees 
of said corporation for the first year are: Samuel Marsh, George 
B. Satterlee, Samuel B. Ward, M.D., William H. Barbour, F. 
LeBoy Satterlee, M. D., Thomas Winsor and F. D. Weisse, M. D. 
CHAPTER 587. 
AN ACT IN REGARD TO THE AMERICAN VETERINARY COLLEGE, 
passed June 5th, 1886; three-fifths being present. 
The people of the State of New York , represented in Senate and 
Assembly , do enact as follows : 
Section 1 . The American Veterinary C.ollege, organized un¬ 
der the provisions of chapter three hundred and nineteen of the 
laws of eighteen hundred and forty-eight, entitled “An Act for the 
incorporation of benevolent, charitable, scientific and missionary 
societies, 1 ’ and the acts amendatory thereof, by certificate dated 
April twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, and 
approved by one of the justices of the Supreme Court, and filed 
in the office of the clerk of the county of New York, the twenty- 
ninth day of April, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, is hereby 
declared to lie legally incorporated for the purposes of maintaining 
and conducting a veterinary medical college and a hospital devoted 
to the education of men in the several departments of the medical 
sciences necessary to qualify them for the practice of veterinary 
medicine and surgery, and of conferring the degree of Doctor of 
Veterinary S urgery. 
Sec. 2. All degrees heretofore conferred by said College are 
declared valid. 
Sec. 3. Said College shall be subject to the same duties, obli¬ 
gations and liabilities and to the same control and visitations of the 
