CORRESPONDENCE. 
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State shall, within sixty days after the passage of this Act, regis¬ 
ter in the office of the Clerk of the county where located, in a 
book to be prepared and kept by the Clerk for that purpose, giv¬ 
ing his name, office and post-office address, and the date of such 
registration; and shall be entitled to a certificate of such regis¬ 
tration upon payment to the Clerk of a fee of fifty cents. 
§ 4. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent, or in anywise con¬ 
flicting with the provisions of this Act, are hereby repealed. 
§ 5. This Act shall take effect immediately. 
FORM OF VETERINARY SURGEON^ CERTIFICATE FROM COUNTY CLERK. 
County Clerk’s Office, 
City and County of 
I, , Clerk of the City and County 
of , do hereby certify that , 
in compliance with the above act of the Legislature of the State 
of New York, hath this day duly registered his name and address 
in a book kept in this office for that purpose. 
In witness whereof I have hereunto subscribed 
[l. s.] my name and affixed my official seal, this 
day of A. JD., 18 
Clerk. 
I think the State Legislature at Albany would willingly enact 
such a law as the above. And every veterinarian, be he graduate 
or non-graduate, would be willing to contribute towards procuring 
the same. It entitles no one to a recognition until he has received 
a licentiate certificate of qualification from the State Veterinary 
Society. In this way it would prove a stimulus to every self- 
educated Veterinarian to place himself above the ignorant empiri¬ 
cal pretender, to a place more on a level with the regular gradu¬ 
ate. This would be a step in the right direction, as it would 
bring about a union in the profession, and thus in time prove the 
death blow to quackery and ignorance. If we turn our attention 
to the veterinary profession in Great Britain, we find that the 
Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons was incorporated in 1844, 
