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142 DENTAL I,AWS CONDENSED.
I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That
after this act goes into effect, it shall be unlawful for any person
to engage in the practice of this specialty for compensation as
either assistant or employee, or to receive a license from any com-
missioner of the revenue to praise this specialty, except he shall
have passed the examinations provided for by this Act and re-
ceive the certificates herein provided, and any person practicing
this specialty in this State without having passed examinations
and received certificates, as herein provided, shall be deemed
guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall be
fined not less than one hundred dollars nor more than two hun-
dred and fifty dollars for the first ofTense, and for the second
offense a fine of not less than five hundred dollars, or imprison-
ment of from three to twelve months in jail, or both, in the dis-
cretion of the jury. Nor shall such person receive any compensa-
tion for services rendered by him ; provided, that nothing con-
tained in this section shall prevent any authorized physician or
surgeon from extracting teeth or any other person from extract-
ing teeth from anyone suffering from toothache, or to prevent a
bona fide student in regular attendance upon any dental college
in this State from practising dentistry under the direct supervi-
sion of one of its teachers in the regular infirmary of such college.
On the trial of any person charged with violation of any of
the provisions of this Act, it shall be incumbent on the defendant
to show that he has authority under the law to practise this speci-
alty in this State in order to relieve himself from the penalties
herein prescribed.
Any commissioner of the revenue who shall, in violation of
section one, issue a license to any person not authorized to prac-
tice this specialty by this Act, shall, upon conviction thereof, be
fined not less than twenty dollars nor more than fifty dollars, and
no license issued by any commissioner in violation of this Act
shall be valid.
2. From and after January i, nineteen hundred and fourteen,
anno domini, the practice of this specialty in this State shall be
a branch or specialty of medicine and surgery, and no person,
after this Act goes into effect, shall be given the examination or
a certificate required by section four of this Act unless he shall
first show to the satisfaction of the examining board provided by
law for applicants to practice medicine or surgery, and has re-
ceived from the Virginia State Board of Medical Examiners the
certificate thereof as required by law to be given by them to such
applicants.
3. There shall be for the commonwealth of Virginia a board
of dental examiners consisting of three practitioners of dentistry
of acknowledged ability in the profession, to be appointed by the