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present on the day appointed for the meeting of said board, those
present may adjourn from day to day until a quorum is present.
Section 3154.—Misdemeanor to Practice Dentistry Without Obtain-
ing Certificate, Etc.; Provisos. 1879, C. 139, S. 6.
Any person who shall practise dentistry in this State with-
out having first passed the examination and obtained the certifi-
cate hereinbefore provided, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and
fined twenty-five dollars ; provided, any person so convicted shall
not be entitled to sue for or recover any fee or charge for dental
service in any court, and any sum of money paid to a person so
convicted for dental services rendered may be recovered by the
person so paying the same, or his legal representative ; provided
further, no one applying for a license to practise dentistry shall
be denied such license on account of race, color or previous condi-
tion of servitude.
Section 3155.—Fines Appropriated to School Fund. 1879, C.
139, S. 8.
All fines and penalties so recovered shall be appropriated to
the school fund of the county in which the same shall have been
recovered.
Section 3156.—Chapter not to Apply to Persons Now Practising
Dentistry. 1879, C. 139, S. 8.
Nothing in this chapter shall apply to any person engaged
in the practice of dentistry before the seventh day of March, one
thousand eight hundred and seventy-nine, nor to prevent any one
from extracting teeth.
The following amendments have been made by the Legisla-
ture of North Carolina since the above chapter was enacted in
1883 and embodied in The Code.
The following chapter was enacted by the Legislature of
1887. See chapter 178:
An Act to Amend Chapter Thirty-four, Volume Two of the Code
of North Carolina, Relating to Dentistry.
The General Assembly of North Carolina do Enact
Section i. That section three thousand one hundred and
forty-eight of the Code of North Carolina, being chapter thirty-
four, volume two, be stricken out and the following inserted in
lieu thereof: Hereafter no person shall commence the ])ractice
of dentistry who has not obtained a certificate from a Board of
Examiners duly authorized and appointed in accordance with sec-
tion three thousand one hundred and forty-nine and that part of
chapter thirty-four which relates to dentistry, which certificate
shall be registered in the office of the Clerk of the Superior Court