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registered, prior to August 5, 1889, a certificate of his enregistra-
tion signed by the President and Secretary of such Board of Ex-
aminers.
Sec. 5. Any person or persons who shall desire to begin the
practice of dentistry in the State of Minnesota on and after
September I, 1889, shall file his name, together with an applica-
tion for examination, with the Secretary of the State Board of
Dental Examiners, and at the time of making such application
shall pay to the Secretary of said Board a fee of ten dollars, and
shall present himself at the first regular meeting thereafter of
said Board to undergo examination before that body. In order
to be eligible for such examination such person shall present to
said Board his diploma from some dental college in good stand-
ing, and shall give satisfactory evidence of his rightful possession
of the same, provided also that the Board may in its discretion
admit to examination such other persons as shall give satisfactory
evidence of having been engaged in the practice of dentistry ten
years prior to the date of passage of this Act. Said Board shall
have the power to determine the good standing of any college or
colleges from which such diplomas may have been granted. The
examinations shall be elementary and practical in character, but
sufficiently thorough to test the fitness of the candidate to prac-
tice dentistry. It shall include, written in the English language,
questions on the following subjects: anatomy, physiology, chem-
istry, materia medica, therapeutics, metallurgy, histology, pathol-
ogy, operative and surgical dentistry, mechanical dentistry, and
also demonstrations of their skill in operative and mechanical
dentistry. All persons successfully passing such examinations
shall be registered as licensed dentists in the Board register pro-
vided for in section 4, and also receive a certificate of such enreg-
istration, said certificate to be signed by the President and Secre-
tary of the Board. The examination fee shall in no case be
refunded.

Sec. 6. Recipients of said certificate of enregistration shall
present the same for record to the clerk of the district court of
the county in which they reside, and shall pay a fee of fifty cents
to said clerk for registration of the same. Said clerk shall record
said certificate in a book to be provided by him for that purpose.
Any person so licensed removing his residence from one

county to another in this State, before engaging in the prac-
tice of dentistrv in such other county, shall obtain from the clerk