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Sec. Y. Any person who shall knowingly and falsely claim 
or pretend to have or hold a certificate of license conferring upon 
him the degree of L.Y.M., granted by the Veterinary Society of 
the State of New York, or who shall falsely and with intent to 
deceive the public, claim or pretend to be a graduate from any 
incorporated Veterinary College, shall be guilty of a misde¬ 
meanor. 
Sec. VI. All veterinary practitioners, at the time of the pas¬ 
sage of this act, and all persons who shall have received a diploma 
from any Veterinary College, shall be entitled to an examination 
by said Board of Censors. 
Sec. VII. Candidates for examination shall pay into the 
treasury the sum of twenty dollars; candidates for admission shall 
pay into the treasury the sum of five dollars. 
Sec. VIII. The Veterinary Societies of the respective districts, 
and the State Veterinary Society, may purchase and hold such 
real and personal estate as the purposes of their respective cor¬ 
porations may require; the district Societies not exceeding the 
sum of five thousand dollars, the State Society not exceeding the 
sum of twenty thousand dollars. 
Sec. IX. The respective State and judicial district Societies 
may make all needful by-laws, rules and regulations, not incon¬ 
sistent with any existing law. 
Sec. X. The Veterinary Society of the State of New York 
shall be entitled to all the privileges and immunities granted to 
State Societies. 
EDITORIAL. 
Contagious pleura-pneumonia has at last forced itself upon the 
attention of the American public. 
This dread danger has for years been lurking in our midst, 
gaining strength day by day as it quietly spread from numerous 
foci of propagation, waiting only for the opportunity which would 
some time come to spread like wild-fire throughout our land. 
Every veterinary sanitarian in this country has watched with 
