Requirements for licensure.—Examination (including satisfactory evidence of practical proficiency in manipulation) and diploma from an institution in the United States recognized by the board of examiners as competent, or a diploma or license to practice dentistry in a foreign country. Holders of licenses from State boards of dental examiners or of health of other States may be exempt from examination. Penalty for violation.—Fine of $50 to $200 for each offense. (Pepper and Lewis Digest, Supplement, 1894-1897.) RHODE ISLAND. The board of registration in dentistry consists of five graduates in dentistry practicing within the State, appointed by the governor, with the advice and consent of the senate, for three years. Requirements for licensure.-Examination by the board of registration in dentistry. Penalty for violation.-Fine of $50 to $100 for each and every offense. (Chap. 155, General Laws of 1896, as amended by acts of May 21, 1897, and January 29, 1901.) SOUTH CAROLINA. State board of dental examiners consists of five members elected by the State Dental Association. Requirements for licensure.-Examination by the board. Penalty for violation.-Fine of $50 to $300, or imprisonment, or the chain gang from one to twelve months. (Code of South Carolina, 1902.) SOUTH DAKOTA. State board of dental examiners consists of five practicing dentists, appointed by the governor for terms of five years from names furnished by the South Dakota State Dental Society. The society must furnish twice the number of names as there are appointments to be made. Requirements for licensure.-Examination by the State board of dental examiners, but the board may issue a license without examination to an applicant having a diploma from a reputable dental college or dental department at any university. An applicant for examination other than a graduate must furnish evidence that he has been engaged in the active practice of dentistry for at least three years immediately preceding such examination, or that he has pursued the study of dentistry in the office or under the supervision of a regular practicing dentist for such period. Penalty for violation.-Fine of not exceeding $100, or imprisonment not exceeding thirty days, or both. (Acts of March 7, 1901, and March 11, 1903.) TENNESSEE. Board of dental examiners consists of six practicing dentists, appointed by the governor for terms of three years. Requirements for licensure.-Acceptable diploma or examination by the board. Penalty for violation.-Fine of $25 to $300. (Code of 1896, secs. 2627, 2628, 2631, 2634. TEXAS. State board of dental examiners consists of six practicing dentists, appointed by the governor for terms of two years. Requirements for licensure.-Examination by the State board of dental examiners or a diploma from some reputable dental college, school, or university department duly authorized by the laws of this State or some other of the United States or some foreign country. Penalty for violation.-Fine of $25 to $300 for each offense, each day in the prac tice constituting a separate offense. (Chap. 97, Laws of 1897.) UTAH. The board of dental examiners consists of five members, appointed by the governor, with the advice and consent of the Senate, from practicing dentists in the State. Requirements for licensure.—Examination by the board. Applicant for examination must have practiced dentistry for two years or have been a bona fide student for three years under a licensed dentist, or must possess a diploma from some dental college recognized by the National Association of Dental Examiners. Penalty for violation.—Fine not exceeding $300, or imprisonment for six months, or both. (Revised Statutes, 1898, as amended by act of March 12, 1903.) VERMONT. Board of dental examiners consists of five dental graduates or practitioners, appointed by the governor biennially for terms of two years. Requirements for licensure.-Examination by the board of dental examiners. Penalty for violation.—Fine of $25 to $100. (Vermont Statutes, 1894, chap. 191; act of Nov. 8, 1898.) VIRGINIA. State board of dental examiners consists of six dentists of acknowledged ability, appointed by the governor for terms of three years. Requirements for licensure.-Diploma from a reputable dental college or examination approved by at least four members of the board. Penalty for violation.-Fine of $50 to $200. (Code of 1887, secs. 1768–1769, 1772.) WASHINGTON, Board of dental examiners consists of five practicing dentists, appointed by the governor for terms of two years. Requirements for licensure.-Examination by the board of dental examiners. An applicant for examination must present a diploma from some dental college in good standing. Penalty for violation.-Fine of $50 to $200 or imprisonment for not exceeding six months for each and every offense. (Ballinger's Annotated Codes and Statutes, 1897, as amended by act of March 18, 1901.) WEST VIRGINIA. The board of dental examiners consists of five practicing dentists, appointed by the governor. Requirements for licensure. -Examination by the board. Penalty for violation.-Fine of $50 to $200 or imprisonment from one to three months, or both. (Act of February 20, 1897.) WISCONSIN. State board of dental examiners consists of five practicing dentists, at least three of whom shall be members of the Wisconsin State Dental Society, appointed by the governor for terms of five years. Requirements for licensure.—Examination by the State board of dental examiners, or graduation from a reputable dental college in which the applicant shall have pursued four full courses of lectures of at least seven months each and which requires for admission thereto a preliminary education equivalent to that required for entrance to the junior class of an accredited high school; or, if the applicant has attended such college from which he received his diploma only during the last full course, he shall have received his dental education prior to said last course in a dental college having an equal standard as to course of study and preliminary requirements. An applicant for examination shall be a graduate of a duly incorporated and reputable dental college, or shall have been engaged in the reputable practice of dentistry consecutively for four years immediately preceding his application for examination, or shall have served as an apprentice to a dentist engaged in the reputable practice of dentistry for a period of five years. Graduates of reputable dental colleges in the State who are students therein at the time of the passage of this act (May 21, 1903) shall be licensed without examination. Penalty for violation.-Fine of $10 to $100 for each offense. (Wisconsin Statutes, 1898, as amended by act of May 21, 1903.) WYOMING. Requirements for licensure.-Diploma from a dental college recognized by the National Association of Dental Examiners. Must be filed with county clerk, who files same and issues certificate. Penalty for violation.-Fine of $50 to $200 or sixty days in jail, or both. (Revised Statutes, 1899, secs. 2207–2212.) SUMMARY OF REQUIREMENTS FOR THE PRACTICE OF DENTISTRY. 1. Require an examination.-Alabama, Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Iowa, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Mississippi, New Hampshire, New Jersey (license of other State board requiring an examination may be accepted), New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Utah, Vermont, Washington, West Virginia (27). (a) of the above (1), the following require a reputable diploma of applicants for examination: Colorado, Iowa, Minnesota, Ohio, Oregon, Washington (6). (b) of the above (1), the following require of applicants for examination a diploma, or, in lieu thereof, a certain period of apprenticeship and a high school education, or license of another State board: Arizona, California (2). (c) Of the above (1), the following requires of applicants for examination a diploma, or, in lieu thereof, a certain period of practice or instruction under a dentist: Connecticut. (d) of the above (1), the following requires of applicants for examination a diploma, or, in lieu thereof, a license after examination by another State board: Georgia. (e) of the above (1), the following requires of applicants for examination a diploma, or, in lieu thereof, three years' apprenticeship or license of another State: Idaho. (f) of the above (1), the following requires of applicants for examination a diploma, or, in lieu thereof, two years' practice or three years' study under a dentist: Utah. (g) Of the above (1), the following requires of applicants for examination a common school education and either a diploma or the recommendation of five dentists, or a diploma or license to practice in a foreign country: New Jersey. (h) of the above (1), the following requires of applicants for examination a high school education and either a diploma of a registered dental college or a diploma or license to practice in a foreign country: New York. (i) Of the above (1), the following requires of applicants for examination a diploma of a dental college or a diploma or license to practice in a foreign country: Pennsylvania. 2. Require an examination or diploma.—Arkansas, District of Columbia, Illinois (or ten years' practice), Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Wisconsin (diploma must be granted after four years' course with certain preliminary educational attainments) (21). (a) South Dakota requires three years' practice or apprenticeship of applicants for examination. 3. Requires a diploma.-Wyoming (1). CALIFORMA CHAPTER I. GENERAL LAWS RELATING TO AGRICULTURAL AND ACTS OF CONGRESS. AN ACT donating public lands to the several States and Territories which may provide colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there be granted to the several States, for the purposes hereinafter mentioned, an amount of public land, to be apportioned to each State a quantity equal to 30,000 acres for each Senator and Representative in Congress to which the States are respectively entitled by the apportionment under the census of 1860: Provided, That no mineral lands shall be selected or purchased under the provisions of this act. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the land aforesaid, after being surveyed, shall be apportioned to the several States in sections or subdivisions of sections, not less than one-quarter of a section; and wherever there are public lands in a State, subject to sale at private entry at one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre, the quantity to which said State shall be entitled shall be selected from such lands, within the limits of such State; and the Secretary of the Interior is hereby directed to issue to each of the States, in which there is not the quantity of public lands subject to sale at private entry, at one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre, to which said State may be entitled under the provisions of this act, land scrip to the amount in acres for the deficiency of its distributive share; said scrip to be sold by said States, and the proceeds thereof applied to the uses and purposes prescribed in this act, and for no other use or purpose whatsoever: Provided, That in no case shall any State to which land scrip may thus be issued be allowed to locate the same within the limits of any other State, or of any territory of the United States; but their assignces may thus locate said land scrip upon any of the unappropriated lands of the United States subject to sale at private entry at one dollar and twenty-five cents, or less, an acre: And provided further, That not more than one million acres shall be located by such assignees in any one of the States: And provided further, That no such location shall be made before one year from the passage of this act. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That all the expenses of management, superintendence and taxes from date of selection of said lands, previous to their sales, and all expenses incurred in the management and disbursement of moneys which may be received therefrom, shall be paid by the States to which they may belong, out of the Treasury of said States, so that the entire proceeds of the sale of said lands shall be applied, without any diminution whatever, to the purposes hereinafter mentioned. "SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That all moneys derived from the sale of the lands aforesaid by the States to which the lands are apportioned, and from the sales of land scrip herein before provided for, shall be invested in stocks of the United States, or of the States, or some other safe stocks, yielding not less than five per centum upon the par value of said stocks; and that the moneys so invested shall constitute a perpetual fund, the capital of which shall remain forever undiminished, except so far as may be provided in section fifth of this act, and the interest of which shall be inviolably appropriated, by each State which may take and claim the benefit of this act, to the endowment, support, and maintenance of, at least, one college, where the leading object shall be, without excluding other scientific and classical studies, and including military tactics, to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts, in such ED 1902-1 1 |