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lege, school board or society to indicate that the person to
whose name they are appended holds a recognized medical or
dental degree shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and
upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not less
than two hundred and fifty dollars or by imprisonment for not
less than three months, or by both fine and imprisonment; all
fines and forfeitures of bail imposed and collected in conse-
quence of violations of this Act shall be paid to the Dental Soci-
ety of the State of New York: Provided, That if at the annual
meetings of said society the Treasurer shall report an excess of
the sums so paid over the expenses of the society in enforc-
ing this Act, such excess shall be paid over by him to the Treas-
urer of the State and become part of the common school fund:
Provided, also, That any such fine or forfeiture imposed in an
action brought by any incorporated county medical society for
violations of the provisions of this Act relating to medical diplo-
mas shall be paid to said prosecuting society.
Sec. 5. Sections eight, nine and ten of chapter one hundred
and fifty-two of the laws of eighteen hundred and sixty-eight,
shall read respectively as follows:
Sec. 8. The State Dental Society, organized as aforesaid,
having already at its first meeting appointed eight censors, one
from each of the said district societies, to constitute a State Board
of Censors, divide into four classes, to serve one, two, three and
four years, respectively, shall at each annual meeting appoint
two censors, to serve each four years, and until their successors
shall be chosen, and fill all vacancies that may have occurred in
the Board by death or otherwise. Each district society shall be
entitled to one, and only one, member of said Board of Censors.
Said Board of Censors shall meet at least once in each year, at
such time and place as they shall designate, and, being thus met,
they, or a majority of them, shall carefully and impartially exam-
ine all persons who are entitled to examination under the provis-
ions of this Act, and who shall present themselves for that pur-
pose, and report their opinion in writing to said State Dental
Society, and on the recommendation of the said Board it shall be
the duty of the President aforesaid to issue a diploma to such
person or persons, signed by the President, the Secretary and
said censors, and bearing the seal of said society, conferring
upon him the degree of " Master of Dental Surgery" (M. D. S.)»
and it shall not be lawful for any other society, college or cor-