VETERINARY LEGISLATION. 
graduates, then some such facilities as our bill proposes should be 
given by law. The people will have confidence in a board of 
examiners appointed by the Regents of the University. 
The bill proposed by Mr. Earl, should it pass, will be an 
obnoxious specimen of class legislation. The bill proposed by 
our society, although it asks that, hereafter, a person commencing 
to practice shall show by an examination that he is qualified, 
does not ask that he be compelled to attend two or three long 
and expensive courses of lectures in a large city, but opens a way 
for him to obtain a certificate of the knowledge he may have by 
passing an examination before a Board of Censors appointed by 
the University of the State, the highest and best authority for 
conferring diplomas, thus enabling one to utilize knowledge he 
possesses, even though he may not command sufficient means to 
attend the curriculum of a college. 
The members of this society are constituents of yours, and as 
such, respectfully ask you to introduce this bill to the Legislature, 
as an amendment to the Earl bill, and if you approve of its pro¬ 
visions, to advocate its passage. 
Truly yours, 
Frank H. Parsons, D.Y.S. 
Secretary of the Rochester Veterinary Medical Association. 
By order of committee : 
Albert Drinkwater, V.S., Chairman 
William Cutting, Y.S. 
J. C. McKenzie, Y.S. 
An Act to Incorporate a Society for the Promotion of Vet¬ 
erinary Science and Art in the State of New Jersey. 
Section 1 . Be it enacted , That any number of persons, not 
less than ten, who have been and are now connected with the 
Veterinary Medical Association of New Jersey, desirous of pro¬ 
moting the interests of veterinary science and practice in this 
State, may associate themselves together for that purpose, adopt 
a corporate name and make a certificate in writing of their organ¬ 
ization, with the names and residences of the persons making the 
