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1 30 DENTAL LAWS CONDENSED.
pointments shall be so made that every vacancy in the board shall
be filled by a resident of the same judicial district in which the last
incumbent of the office resided. The board shall elect at its annual
meeting from its members a president and a secretary and shall hold
one or more meetings each year pursuant to call of the Regents.
No person shall be appointed an examiner unless he shall have
received a dental degree from a body lawfully entitled to confer
the same, and in good standing at the time of its conferment, and
shall have been engaged within the State during not less than five
years prior to his appointment in the actual and lawful practice of
dentistry. Nor shall any person connected with a dental school as
professor, trustee or instructor be eligible to such appointment.
Cause being shown before them the Regents may remove an exam-
iner from office on proven charges of inefficiency, incompetency,
immorality or unprofessional conduct.
Sec. 196. Examinations.—The Regents shall admit to exami-
nation any candidate who shall pay the fee herein prescribed and
submit satisfactory evidence, verified by oath if required, that he:
1. Is more than 21 years of age.
2. Is or good moral character.
3. Has a preliminary education equivalent to graduation
from a four-year high school course registered by the Regents, or an
education accepted by the Regents as fully equivalent.
4. Subsequently to reeiving such preliminary education
either has been graduated in course w^ith a dental degree from a re-
gistered dental school, or else, having been graduated in course from
a registered medical school with a degree of doctor of medicine, has
pursued thereafter a course of special study of dentistry for at least
two years in a registered dental school, and received therefrom its
degree of doctor of dental surgery, or else holds a diploma or license
conferring full right to practise dentistry in some foreign country
and granted by some registered authority or else has lawfully prac-
tised dentistry for more than twenty-five years without this State and
within the United States. Provided that any person who then being
a bona fide student of dentistry in this State under private precept-
orship was entitled to file on or before the 31st day of July, 1895,
with the secretary of the State Dental Society a certificate of study
under private preceptorship and who did at any time prior to the
first day of January, 1904, upon sworn proof of such fact file such
a certificate with the Regents, may be admitted to examination
before the board. Any member of the board may inquire of any
applicant for examination concerning his qualifications and may
take testimony of any one in regard thereto, under oath, which he
is hereby empowered to administer.
Sec. 197. Degrees.—No degree in dentistry shall be conferred
in this State except the degree of doctor of dental surgery. Said
degree shall not be conferred upon any one unless he shall have