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VETERINARY LEGISLATION. 
VETERINARY LEGISLATION. 
AN ACT TO REGULATE THE PRACTICE OF VETERINARY MEDI¬ 
CINE AND SURGERY IN THE STATE OF NEW JERSEY. 
1. Be it enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the 
State of New Jersey , That every person using the title of voter 
inary physician or surgeon, or practicing veterinary medicine or 
surgery in this State in any of their branches for gain, or who 
shall receive or accept for his services any fee or reward, either 
directly or indirectly, shall be a graduate of some legally char¬ 
tered or incorporated veterinary college or university in good 
standing, or some veterinary society having power by Jaw to 
grant diplomas, and such person before entering upon said prac¬ 
tice shall deposit a true copy of his diploma with the Clerk of 
the county in which he may sojourn or reside, and shall pay said 
clerk ten cents for filing the same in his office; such copy to be a 
matter of record and open to public inspection. 
2. And be it enacted , That any person who shall commence 
or continue to practice veterinary medicine or surgery without 
conforming to the requirements of the first section of this act 
shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction shall 
be punished by a fine of twenty-five dollars, or imprisonment in 
the county jail not exceeding six months, or both, in the discre¬ 
tion of the court, for each prescription made, operation per¬ 
formed oi- professional service rendered, which said fine shall be 
sued for and recovered in an action upon contract by any person 
who shall sue for the same, who shall be entitled to receive one- 
half of the amount recovered; provided, that any person who 
shall have had at least two years’ experience immediately pre¬ 
ceding the passage of this act in practicing veterinary medicine 
or surgery as a profession and means of livelihood in one locality 
in this State, and shall file with the clerk of the county in which 
he resides an affidavit, within six months after the passage of this 
act, setting forth the fact of such experience and length of prac¬ 
tice, which shall be a matter of record and open to public inspec¬ 
tion, shall be exempt from the requirements contained in section 
first of this act. 
