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EDITORIAL. 
Now, doctor, I sincerely trust that you will permit no duty to 
supersede that of entering your protest against this threatening 
calamity, as I am sure none can avail you more good personally nor 
professionally. 
Yours fraternally, 
Arthur O’Shea. 
Chairman Com. Legislation , Veterinary Medical Association of N Y County. 
Me?nber Co?n. Legislation , N. Y. State Veterinary Med. Society. 
At the last meeting of the New York County Society Bill 
No. 650 (referred to in our last issue), to establish a State live 
stock commission, was endorsed, providing an amendment to 
include the principles of civil service was incorporated, which 
is in line with the views expressed by us last month. 
Dr. Kelly, of the Legislative Committee of the State Society, 
has forwarded us a copy of another iniquitous bill—Assembly 
Bill 838, introduced by Mr. Delaney and referred to the Com¬ 
mittee on Public Health. It embodies this paragraph : “ Quali¬ 
fication for practice.—No person shall practice veterinary medi¬ 
cine after July 1st, eighteen hundred and ninety [five] nine, un¬ 
less previously registered. * * * Any graduate of a veteri¬ 
nary school who received his degree prior to July first, eighteen 
hundred and ninety [five] nine , and has practiced veterinary 
medicine in some county in New York State, but who failed to 
register in the county in which he so practiced, may, on un¬ 
animous recommendation of the State Board of Veterinary 
Medical Examiners, receive from the Regents a certificate which 
shall entitle him to register * * * ” We have no idea that 
this bill will get beyond the Senate Committee, but if it should 
become a law, we judge that the applicant would experience 
some difficulty in securing the “ unanimous recommendation of 
the State Board of Veterinary Medical Examiners.” 
Wisconsin veterinarians are seeking to secure an amend¬ 
ment to their law—Section 1492 F of the laws of 1898—which 
reads as follows : “ Any person who shall violate the provisions 
of this section shall be punished by a fine of not less than $25 
nor more than $100, or by imprisonment in the county jail not 
less than thirty nor more than ninety days or both.” Secretary 
Clark, of the Society of Graduates, has sent forth a circular let- 
