to practice dentistry in the State of Pennsylvania tion of those otherwise provided for in section ty shall be required to pass an examination by the St tal Examiners upon the following subjects: Oneand physiology; two-special dental anatomy; t tology; four-Dental physiology; five-chemistry six-Materia Medica; seventh-Dental pathology, therapeutics; eighth-anesthesia; nine-oral surg ples and practice of operative and posthetic dentis cant shall also furnish to the Board of Dental Ex tory evidence of his or her proficiency in the ma dures of dentistry, either by producing an exam work, with an affidavit as to the execution of same, by the demonstrator in charge of the clinic of th his or her diploma, or by a practical demonstrat skill in the presence of the examining members of Section 10. Said examination shall be conducte shall embrace all the subjects named in section After each examination the Board having char without unnecessary delay, act upon the same. Αι such action, signed by the president and secretary member of the said Board of Dental Examiners, ination average of each candidate in each branch, age, and the results of the examination, whether successful, shall be transmitted to the Dental C report shall embrace all the examination paper answers thereto. All such examination papers the Dental Council, at Harrisburg, and kept for spection for a period of not less than five years. Section 11. On receiving from the said Board of ers such official report of the examination of any cense, the Dental Council shall issue forthwith, t who shall have been returned as having successfull amination, a license to practice dentistry in the vania. Every license to practice dentistry, issued act, shall be subscribed by the officers of the De by each Dental Examiner who reported the licentia cessfully passed said examination, and sealed wit Dental Council of the Commonwealth of Pennsylva recorded in a book to be kept in the office of the De the number of the book and page therein containi copy shall be noted upon the face of said license. written application for license, together with satisthat the applicant is not less than twenty-one years ood moral character, has obtained a competent comucation, and has received a diploma conferring the tor of Dental Surgery, or other recognized dental a reputable institution recognized as of good repute of Dental Examiners of this State, and legally compethe same. Applicants who have received their dery after the first day of October, one thousand eight inety-seven, must have pursued the study of dentistry ree years, including three regular courses of lectures, over a period of at least six months in separate years ly incorporated dental college or colleges, prior to f said diploma; such proof shall be made, if required, Upon making such payment and proof, the Dental isfied with the same, shall issue to such applicant an ination before the State Board of Dental Examiners. ure at any such examination, the candidate, after the ix months and within two years, shall have the privind examination by the said Board, without the payditional fee; but for any subsequent examination he isual fees prescribed in this act. ther provided that applicants examined and licensed oard of Dental Examiners or State Boards of Health s, on payment of a fee of twenty-five dollars to the he Dental Council, and on filing in the office of the 1 a copy of said license, certified with the affidavit of and secretary of such Board, showing that the standments adopted by the said State Board of Dental Exte Board of Health is substantially the same as proact, may, without further examination, receive a ling on the holder thereof the right to practice dentismonwealth. Upon the recommendation of the Board miners, the Council may also, without the written exeinbefore provided for, issue a license to any appliwho shall furnish proof, satisfactory to them, that he licensed to practice dentistry in any state or country, pliance with the requirements of its dental laws, and eafter lawfully and reputably engaged in such pracars next preceding his application; provided that his d professional education shall have been not less than in this act. Every license so issued shall state upon ounds upon which it is granted. human teeth, or inserting artificial appliances or teeth, for hire or reward: Provided, That this act any licensed dentist having any person as assist to perform any services other than extracting, f operating upon human teeth, or the taking of im the insertion of, artificial appliances in the mouth Section 15. It shall be the duty of every person try within this Commonwealth, within six months of this act, to cause their license to be registered prothonotary of the court of common pleas of th such persons shall practice dentistry, unless the been registered in said county. Any person who cause his or her license to be registered, as herein construed to be practicing dentistry without a lice Section 16. It shall be the duty of every person try within this Commonwealth to display, or caus his or her name, posted in a conspicuous place, a trance to the office or place where he or she is pra Section 17. It shall be unlawful for any person t son as an operator in oral surgery or practitioner hire or reward, or to cause or to permit any per operator in oral surgery or as a practitioner in or reward, who is not duly qualified and registered in dentistry, as provided by law. Section 18. Any person who shall violate any of this act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be punishable by a fine not exceeding five h by imprisonment not exceeding six months, or by prisonment, at the discretion of the court. Section 19. All fines recovered under this act, resulting from informations instituted by the P Dental Society, shall be paid to the said society. Section 20. Nothing in this act shall be const with or punish physicians or surgeons, in the re their profession, from extracting teeth for the reli ing applications for such purpose; or shall interfer bona fide students of dentistry, in the regular c struction, from operating upon patients at clinics mediate supervision, and in the presence, of the is in lawful practice: Provided, That no fee, sala such operations shall be received, either directly or any circumstances, by any student of dentistry. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, vith, in the office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth, ections, House bill No. 112, entitled "An act to establ Council and a State Board of Dental Examiners; to owers and duties of said Dental Council and said State ental Examiners; to provide for the examination and practitioners of dentistry, and to further regulate the entistry; providing for payment and disposition of fees prohibit the practice of dentistry by unlicensed persons, unishment for its violation." hteen provides, "any person who shall violate any of ns of this act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, tion, shall be punishable by a fine not exceeding five lars or by imprisonment not exceeding six months, or and imprisonment, at the discretion of the court." One ions of the bill is contained in section five, and is to this this list of nominees the Governor shall annually, durth of August, appoint successors to those members of office shall expire on the first day of September of These sections are brought into juxtaposition in order futility of trying to make every conceivable breach or ty a crime, punishable by imprisonment. In our legisgrowing to be a habit, and it is full time that the tenbed. eason an otherwise carefully drawn bill, for a proper ts with disapproval. SAML. W. PENNYPACKER. of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania; that the cost th one-half by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and oneand declaring the manner of ascertaining compensation impairment of the rights and franchises of the owners of Section 1. Be it enacted, &c., That the first sect titled “An act authorizing the county commission counties of this Commonwealth to rebuild bridges by corporations or by private persons, or built by tions, over any stream or river forming the bound two counties, where the same have been destroyed otherwise, at any time, or which have been or m by the owners thereof and rebuilt on another site. previously used exclusively for vehicles and foot p viding for the cost of reconstructing the same,” ap day of May, Anno Domini one thousand eight hun seven, which reads as follows: "Section 1. Be it enacted, &c., That the count of the several counties of this Commonwealth are h to take charge of, and rebuild and reconstruct, any stream or river forming the boundary line betwe when the same is on the line of a public highway, sary for the use of the traveling public, and owned by corporations or by private persons, or which wa subscriptions, used exclusively for vehicles and foot has been destroyed by ice, flood or otherwise, at an has been or may be abandoned by the owners of the same rebuilt by said corporation or private public subscriptions, on another site. And the missioners of the respective counties are hereby au charge of, and rebuild and maintain jointly, st county bridge, and the cost and expenses of such tion shall be paid by the said counties, respectively, of the population thereof as ascertained by the la be and the same is hereby amended to read as follo Section 1. That when any bridge over any strea ing the boundary line between two counties, when t line of a public highway, or deemed necessary for th eling public, and owned and maintained by corpor vate persons, or which was built by public su exclusively for vehicles and foot purposes, shall I hereafter be destroyed by ice, flood, or otherwise which has been or may be abandoned, and the site piers and abutments no longer used by the owner |