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Section 3. Every person now engaged in the practice of 
veterinary medicine and surgery within the State shall, within 
sixty days after the passage of this Act, and every person here¬ 
after duly authorized to practice shall, before commencing to 
practice, register in the clerk’s office of the county where he is 
practicing or intends to practice veterinary medicine and surgery 
or any of its branches, in a book to be kept by said clerk, his 
name, age, residence and place of birth, together with his authority 
for so practicing. The person so registering shall subscribe and 
verify by oath or affirmation, before a person duly qualified to ad¬ 
minister oaths under the laws of this State, an affidavit containing 
such facts, and whether such authority is by diploma or certificate 
or by the exemption provision of section 1 of this Act. If by 
diploma or certificate, the date of the same and by whom granted 
shall be stated. If by the exemption clause of section 1 of this 
Act, then he shall state the length of time he has practiced with¬ 
in the State and in what place or places; that he can read and 
write ; and that he has in his possession some work or works 
recognized as authority, that he has read and studied, that treat 
on the anatomy and physiology of the horse, his diseases, their 
cause, symptoms and treatment, the action, uses and doses of 
medicines commonly used in the practice of veterinary medicine 
and surgery ; that he has knowledge of arithmetic and of phar¬ 
macy sufficient to enable him to combine or compound, and to 
dispense drugs in a practical and intelligent manner and with or¬ 
dinary safety : which, if wilfully false in any particular, shall 
subject the affiant to prosecution, conviction and the pain and 
penalties of perjury, and shall be enjoined from practice there¬ 
after. 
Section 4. Any person who shall practice veterinary medicine 
and surgery in any of its branches for fee or reward in this State, 
without having complied with the regulations of this Act, shall be 
deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be 
fined not less than twenty dollars, nor more than one hundred 
dollars, or imprisonment for a period of not less than twenty days, 
nor more than sixty days for each offense. The fine, when col¬ 
lected, shall be paid the one half to the person or corporation 
