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MISSOURI VETERINARY BILL. 
to the Board of Veterinary Examiners with each application for 
a certificate under the provisions of this act, and in no case shall 
an application be filed by the secretary if the fee is not paid. In 
case of the non-approval of the application, said fee shall be for¬ 
feited to the Board of Veterinary Examiners. 
The secretary shall turn over all funds promptly to the treas¬ 
urer, taking his receipt therefor. 
Sec. io. It shall be the duty of said Board of Examiners to 
keep a register of all practitioners to whom certificates are issued 
under the provisions of this act, and to register the name, age, 
and time spent in the study and practice of veterinary medicine, 
veterinary surgery, or veterinary dentistry, as the case may be, 
and if a graduate, the name and location of the school, college, 
or university granting his diploma. Such records shall be 
prima facia evidence of all matters therein recorded, and shall 
be open to public inspection at all times, within reasonable 
hours, at the office of the secretary of the board. 
Sec. II. The president and secretary of said board shall 
have the power and authority to administer the oath, and to 
take testimony in all matters relating to its duties. 
Sec. 12. Any person practicing veterinary medicine, veteri¬ 
nary surgery, or any branch thereof, including veterinary den¬ 
tistry, in the State of Missouri, without having obtained a certi¬ 
ficate so to do under the provisions of this act, shall be deemed 
guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction, thereof, shall be 
punished by a fine of not less than fifty dollars ($50.00), nor 
more than three hundred dollars ($300.00), or by imprisonment 
in the county jail for not less than ten days, nor more than sixty 
days, or by both fine and imprisonment, together with cost of 
prosecution for each and every offense, and one-half of all fines 
collected in accordance herewith, shall be paid into the common 
school fund of the county in which said fines are collected, and 
one-half to the treasurer of the Board of Veterinary Examiners. 
Nothing in this act shall be construed to prohibit bona fide 
students from prescribing under the supervision of duly autho¬ 
rized preceptors, nor to prohibit gratuitous services in cases of 
emergency. 
Sec. 13. Any person shall be regarded as practicing veteri¬ 
nary medicine, veterinary surgery, or veterinary dentistry, within 
the meaning of this act, who prescribes for, or in any way treats 
a sick or injured animal or animals, for compensation, or with 
the understanding that he is to receive compensation. 
Sec. 14. The members of the board created by this act 
