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VETERINARY LEGISLATION. 
rinary medicine and surgery or any one who may attempt to 
practice singly or jointly veterinary medicine or surgery in cities 
of the first and second class shall be and consist of the following, 
namely: A comprehensive and practical knowledge of compara¬ 
tive anatomy, physiology, chemistry, materia medica, the prac¬ 
tice of veterinary medicine and surgery, hygiene, and a good 
moral character. 
Section 2. The possession of a diploma, regularly issued by 
a veterinary school acting under a charter from this or other 
State or country, shall constitute the sufficient and necessary 
license for the person to whom such diploma is granted to prac¬ 
tice singly or jointly veterinary'medicine and surgery, as set forth 
and empowered in said diploma. Provided , however , that a di¬ 
ploma that has been, or that may hereafter be granted for a money 
consideration or other article of value alone, or that has been, or 
may hereafter be granted to any one who has not pursued the 
usual course of studies required by a legally chartered veterinary 
school, shall not be considered as sufficient qualification under 
this act. And provided that veterinary schools or colleges or¬ 
ganized as aforesaid , shall upon application , without examina¬ 
tion ,, issue a diploma to any person who has studied, or may 
study for five consecutive years in the ojfice of a practicing veteri¬ 
nary surgeon the branches set forth in the first section of this act , 
or who has for five years before the passage of this act been 
continuously engaged in the practice of veterinary surgery and 
medicine. 
Section 3. Any practitioner who may not have a diploma, 
as provided for in section two of this act, and who may not be 
qualified as hereinafter provided, shall have the privilege of ap¬ 
plying to the president and officers of the Pennsylvania College 
of Veterinary Surgeons, or any other legally chartered veterinary 
school, for an examination in the various branches of medical sci¬ 
ence and art as set forth in section one of this act. Whereupon, 
it shall be the duty of the president, or in his absence, the vice- 
president of said college, to notify the applicant of the time and 
place of the next meeting of the college, and also to furnish him 
with a copy of the constitution and by-laws of said college, and 
