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DENTAL I, A W S CONDENSED. I43

GovcriiDr ii|)on recommendation of the Virginia State Dental
Association. Such examiners sliall hold office for a term of three
years.
The board shall continue to be divided into three classes with
one member each, one of which classes shall go out of office each
succeeding year. And the Governor shall annually appoint the
successors of each class, as it goes out of office, for the term of
three years. He shall make the appointments in each case from
two persons who shall be nominated by the Virginia State Dental
Association and reside in different sections of the State.
All vacancies for unexpired terms shall be filled by the Gov-
ernor on nominations made by the board. If no such nomination
be made, the Governor mav appoint such persons as he may deem
fit.
4. It shall be the duty of this board to meet annually at a
time and place of meeting of the Virginia Dental Association,
or at such time and place as the board may agree upon, to con-
duct the examination of the applicants. They may also meet
for the same purpose at the call of two members of the board
at such time and place as may be designated by them. Thirty-
days' notice of the meetings shall be given by ad\-ertising in at
least two of the daily papers published in the State. It shall be
the duty of the said board to grant a certificate to practise this
specialty to all applicants who undergo the State examination
and receive at least two votes, which certificates shall be signed
by the members of the board and be stamped with a suitable seal.
It shall further be the duty of such board to register the name
and qualification, as far as practicable, of every person to whom
such certificate is granted in a book to he kept for such purposes.
5. Any member of the board may, upon presentation by
any applicant of the evidence of the necessary qualifications to
practise this specialty under this act, grant a temporary license
to practise vmtil the next meeting of the board and no longer;
provided that not such temporary license shall be granted to any
person who has not passed the examination and obtained the
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certificate of the Virginia State Board of Medical Examiners.
6. The book provided for by section four shall be a book
of record, and transcripts from it certified by the officer who
has it in keeping, with the seal of the board affixed, shall be
evidence in any court of the State.
Every person practicing this specialty in the common-
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wealth of Virginia at the time of the passage of this Act shall
annually register his name and post-office w^ith the Board of
Examiners before renewing his license, and it shall be the duty
of the board to issue to each person so registered a certificate of
registration stamped with the seal of the board and signed by