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CORRESPONDENCE. 
am unable to state. However, it has been stated that the time 
had not arrived for granting the veterinary profession the protec¬ 
tion asked for, nor had they made the advancement in veterinary 
science to need the protection of legislation. 
If the bill was rejected because it asked for more privileges 
than the Legislature was willing to grant the profession, why not 
present one in a more modified form ? In this connection I will 
call your attention to the dental law passed and signed by the 
Governor in June, 1879. They, like the veterinary profession, 
had met with repeated failures, until the following modified bill 
was presented and became a law. 
Here is a copy of the law, taken from Johnson's Dental 
Miscellany , July, 1879. We will substitute the words veterinary 
medicine for dentistry: 
An Act to regulate the practice of Veterinary Medicine 
and Surgery in the State of New York. 
The People of the State of New York , represented in Senate and 
Assembly , do enact as follows : 
Section 1. It shall be unlawful for any person to practice 
veterinary medicine in the State of New York for fee or award, 
unless he shall have received a proper diploma, or certificate of 
qualification from the State Veterinary Society, or from the 
faculty of a reputable veterinary or medical college, recognized 
as such by said Society; provided that nothing in this Section 
shall apply to persons now engaged in the practice of veterinary 
medicine in the State of New York. 
§ 2. Any person who shall practice veterinary medicine for 
fee or reward in this State, without having complied witli the 
regulations of this Act, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, 
and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not less than fifty, nor 
more than two hundred dollars for each offense. All such fines 
shall be paid into the treasury of the county where such convic¬ 
tion shall have taken place, for the benefit of the common schools 
of the county. 
§3. Every person practicing veterinary medicine within the 
