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VETERINARY LEGISLATION. 
exclusive jurisdiction should be given tjiem by the law-making 
power of the State. 
The principal leaders in this crusade against old and non- 
graduated practitiouers, are those who are directly interested in 
the profits and emoluments arising from conducting veterinary 
colleges. Taking the foregoing into consideration, we are forced 
to conclude that their second object is to bring shekels to the 
coffers of these colleges. 
The bill proposed by them cannot be considered in the interest 
of owners or animals, by any process of reasoning that can be 
brought to bear upon it. 
There are many graduates whose diplomas are a shield to 
their ignorance, while on the other hand, many of the non-grad¬ 
uates are thoroughly practical and efficient practitioners, and are 
highly esteemed by their accustomed employers. 
The Rochester Veterinary Medical Association, a legally in¬ 
corporated society, proposes the second bill as an amendment to 
or substitute for the first. 
Your attention is asked to a careful reading of both, so that 
you may be enabled to fairly compare their merits. YVm will 
observe that the bill proposed by our society does not ask that 
practitioners of seven years experience shall be stamped out, if 
they cannot pass an examination by prejudiced censors. 
It proposes to allow them to register and continue their 
accustomed practice undisturbed. It is in favor of keeping the 
avenues leading to veterinary proficiency and distinction open to 
the poor as well as the rich. Therefore it proposes in this bill 
that the Regents of the University of the State of New York 
appoint one or more boards of examiners to examine applicants, 
and to grant diplomas to those found worthy of them. 
This bill is in substance the same as that now in full force, in 
reference to conferring doctorate degrees in medicine. 
Under the provisions of this bill, a person who has qualified 
himself by study, may obtain a diploma though he may be poor, 
which he could not do, should he be compelled to go through two 
or three terms, of five or six months each, at a veterinary college. 
If the right to practice is hereafter to be closed to all except 
