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EDITORIAL. 
forbidden to practice. To accomplish the intent of the law, it ha; 
been thought necessary to give a certain recognition, under sora< 
special provisions, to non-graduates, but the application of thes» 
conditions cannot be any longer continued. The man who ha 
practiced over three years can no longer, merely by making affi 
davit to that effect, take his place on the register. The day i, 
for him gone by; the register is closed. It is true that, by orn 
of the most shameful of omissions, in the mutilation of sectioi 
2 of the original law—the law’ which all interested parties sus 
tained—State and county societies have it in their power to receivi 
them into membership, and give them certificates; but if this i 
done, of what value is the law, unless the admission is rigidly con 
ditioned upon the most positive evidence of knowledge and ability 
and the fact is explicitly stated in the diploma aw T arded to thJ 
applicant—the diploma which will then enable them to register 
But the law is passed, and, as it is , it becomes the property o 
the veterinarians of the State, especially of those constituting th 
various organized societies. Upon these it especially devolves t 
see that the striking out (by whose authority no one knows!!) o 
the most important clause of the second section does not injur 
ously interfere with the realization of the great object which th 
law primarily contemplates, and does not hinder the elevation oi 
the profession and the extirpation of quackery, if that be pos¬ 
sible. 
As our issue goes to the binder, the following is obtained frot 
the daily press. Is there any law, or is there none ? By wha 
authority is it ignored by the honorable judge of the Brookly 
City Court? Will the County Veterinary Society ignore th 
action ? 
HE WASN’T AWARE OF THE LAW. 
Mr. Wells Baker, an old veterinary surgeon of Brooklyn, discovered for tl 
first time yesterday that the Legislature had passed an act last spring forbicLlii 
any one to practice veterinary surgery who did not, within six months after tl 
passage of the act, register his name with the clerk of the county in which I 
resides. Mr. Baker hastened to the clerk in alarm, but was told that he was tc 
late. He then went to Judge Clements, of the Brooklyn City Court, and obtairn 
from him a writ of mandamus compelling the clerk to register his name. Th 
was promptly done.— N. Y. Herald. 
This subject of protective legislation was the topic of a Ion 
