EDITORIAL 
491 
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thers who propose to seek the benefits of legal sanction for their 
hosen profession. Principally amongst these may be mentioned 
he veterinarians of Ohio and Connecticut, who, we understand, 
re also preparing to secure the passage of a law regulating vet- 
rinary practice in their States. 
It is by no means a simple matter to secure even the most ob- 
iously proper legislation on the subject of veterinary medicine, 
-he phraseology of the bill; the concessions which may be neces- 
ary for the reconciliation of opposing or affiliated interests on all 
ides; the manipulations of the final passage of the act—all these 
re little matters of no small practical importance. This is well 
xemplified by the difficulties that are even now experienced in 
onnection with the existing act passed at the last session of the 
view York Legislature. 
When this act became a law, the veterinarians of that State 
elt assured that a long step in advance had been gained, and that 
t had now become but a matter of a few years when the practice 
*f veterinary medicine would be entirely and solely in the hands 
»f men fully taught and regularly graduated. But a sad disap- 
tointment waited upon this enthusiastic anticipation of good things 
o come. A clause belonging to one of the principal sections had 
»een omitted in the process of engrossing the bill, and probably 
>efore it had received the signature of the Governor, and to-day 
he veterinarians of the Empire State are obliged to seek in a sup- 
>lementary amending act, with whatever there may be of uncer- 
ainty attending its passage, the perfecting of a measure which 
hey confidently trusted was already complete. But not alone 
I ias this omission perplexed and troubled them. Another error 
>f a similar character has to be added to the former, and a clause 
vhich makes it a misdemeanor, under certain conditions, for per- 
ons to engage in veterinary practice who have not been duly 
egistered, is left unsupported by another which should provide 
or the prosecution of such cases, and another amendatory act 
mist be devised to obviate the difficulty. 
This confusing state of things, (which we would be sorry to 
onsider as a fair sample of the proficiency of New York law 
nakers in the details of practical legislation), has been developed 
