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EDITORIAL. 
the sanitary veterinarian, while properly armed with the authority 
of law, will not only look after the importation of contagions 
diseases from abroad, but will also be careful of the condition of 
the stocks at home. 
NEW VETERINARY COLLEGE AND REGULATION OF THE 
PRACTICE OF VETERINARY MEDICINE IN CANADA. 
The Deputy Minister of Manitoba has sent us the following 
extract of recent legislation passed in that Canadian province, 
authorizing the Board of Agriculture to establish a new veterinary 
college, and regulating the practice of veterinary medicine. The 
measures indicated are well calculated to check the growth of 
empiricism in that province. 
VETERINARY SCIENCE. 
The Board may establish a veterinary college for the instruction of pupils, 
may arrange for their examination, and grant diplomas certifying that they are 
competent to practice as veterinary surgeons. The Secretary-Treasurer of the 
Board is authorized to keep a register in which he shall record, on payment of a 
fee of $10 for each registration—which fee is to be devoted to the purposes of the 
Board—the names of persons desiring to practice in the Province as veterinary 
surgeons. The only persons entitled to have their names so recorded shall be 
graduates of the veterinary school established by the Board, who may have 
received the diploma previously referred to; persons who at the time of the 
passing of the Act were members in good standing of the Veterinary Association 
of Manitoba; or persons possessing a diploma or certificate of admission to prac¬ 
tice as veterinary surgeons in any part of the British Dominions by any body or 
association empowered by law to grant such diploma or certificate. Provision is 
made for the production to the Secretary-Treasurer, when a demand is made for 
registration, of the diploma or certificate upon which such demand is based and 
the Secretary-Treasurer, after registration, is to issue a certificate of the fact to 
the person whose name is so registered. Persons having registered are entitled 
to professional fees in attending any court as witnesses in cases relating to the 
veterinary profession. Any person not so registered appending to his name the 
term veterinary surgeon, or an abbreviation thereof, or in any way leading people 
to infer that he is a veterinary surgeon, or who prescribes or administers medicine 
to animals for pay, or in any way practices as a veterinary surgeon, is liable to a 
fine of not less than $20 nor more than $100. Clauses 14 to 20 of Chapter 18, 24 
Vic., have been repealed in accordance with these provisions. 
ARMY VETERINARY SURGEONS. 
We publish on another page a letter from the commanding 
officer of the 8th Cavalry, making application for a veterinary 
