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shall issue to each person registered by it a certificate under its
seal and the hand of its President and Secretary, setting forth
that such person was, at the time of the passage of this Act, law-
fully entitled, by the laws of this State, to practice dentistry, and
is duly registered; the said Board, for good cause shown, may
register and issue its certificate thereof, to any person applying;
therefor, after said first day of January, Anno Domini one thou-
sand eight hundred and ninety-one: Provided, it shall appear
to the satisfaction of said Board, that the person so apply-
ing was lawfully practicing or entitled to practice dentistry
at the time of the passage of this Act, and that the re-
fusal to issue such certificate will work hardship to said per-
son so applying; the said Board may demand from any per-
son applying for registration and certificate, proof of his right
to the same under this Act, and may refuse to grant registration
and certificate thereof to any person not lawfully entitled
thereto.
And be it enacted, That any person aggrieved by such
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action of said Board may apply, within sixty days after such re-
fusal by said Board, to the Supreme Court of this State for its
writ of mandamus to compel said Board to register and issue its
certificate to him; and in case any justice of said court shall is-
sue or allow on such application an order on said Board to show
cause, no suit for the collection of any penalty for violation of
this Act shall be instituted again against such person until the
final hearing and determination of such application.
Sec. 5. And be it enacted, That any person who may desire to
begin the practice of dentistry in this State after the passage of
this Act shall file his name, together with an application for ex-
amination, in the form provided for by the rules of said Board,,
with the Secretary of said Board, and at the time of making such
application shall pay to the Secretary of said Board a fee of twen-
ty-five dollars, and shall present himself for examination at the
first regular meeting of the Board thereafter held for examina-
tion and licensing of practitioners in dentistry, due notice of
which meeting shall be given him; the examination fee shall in
no case be refunded, but should any applicant, from sickness or
other good cause appearing to the satisfaction of the Board, fail
to attend such examination, or should any person appearing faiL
to pass successfully the examination, such person so failing to
appear or failing to pass shall be admitted to any subsequent ex-