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their term of office, to administer oaths and take affidavits, cer-
tifying thereto, under their hands and the seal of said Board; said
Board shall hold at least two meetings in each year, for the pur-
pose of examining and licensing persons to practice dentistry in
this State; three of said Board shall constitute a quorum, and its
proceedings shall, at all reasonable times, be open to public in-
spection; said Board shall make an annual report of its proceed-
ings to the Governor on or before the thirty-first day of December,
in each year; the Board shall adopt rules for its own government,
and rules for the examination and licensing of practitioners of
dentistry in this State; the examination of applicants for license
to practice shall be confined to written or oral examination or
both written and oral, upon subjects properly relating to the
science of dentistry and a knowledge of which is necessary to the
proper and skillful practice of said science; the said Board may
also require from applicants as part of the examination, demon-
strations of their skill in operative and mechanical dentistry; and
any rule altering the nature of the examination and increasing the
severity thereof, or the subjects to be included therein, shall not be
enforced at any examination held within six monthsafter its adop-
tion and public promulgation; said Board shall have the power
to determine the good standing and repute of any college or col-
leges, and may, from time to time, designate in some public
manner colleges whose diplomas will be received by it; the said
Board shall announce in the leading dental journals, from time to
time, its regular stated times for holding examinations; it shall
also cause to be published, at least once in such journals, the rules
and amendments thereto adopted for the examination and
licensing of practitioners, and the mode and terms of application
for examining and license, which shall, in all cases, be reasonable
and fair; said Board shall adopt a common seal, and may sue or
be sued, and in all actions brought by or against it, it shall be
made a party under the name of the State Board of Registration
and Examination in Dentistry.
Sec. 3. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty of every
person lawfully practicing, or entitled to practice, dentistry in
this State at the time of the passage of this Act, to apply to said
Board, before the first day of January, Anno Dornini one thou-
sand eight hundred and ninety-one, to cause his name, residence
and place of business to be registered in a book to be kept for
that purpose by the Secretary of said Board; and the said Board