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this Act as to his or her age, identity, course of study, and if a
diploma is offered for certification as to the time, place and cir-
cumstance of its conferment. In so doing the censors are em-
powered to reduce the applicant's statements to the form of an
affidavit and administer the usual oath in respect thereto taken
by affiants as to the truth of depositions in legal proceedings.
Sec. io. Every student, before filing the certificate called for
by this Act, shall pay to the Secretary of the said State society a
fee of five dollars. Every applicant for a censor's certificate, that
his or her diploma is approved by said society as entitling the
holder to registration, shall pay to the Secretary of said society,
at the time of his application, a fee of ten dollars. Every appli-
cant for examination by the censors of said society shall pay to
said Secretary, at the time of his application, a fee of thirty dol-
lars. None of these fees shall be returned to the applicant, but
shall be paid into the treasury of said society. But any appli-
cant for examination before said censors, who may have failed to
obtain his diploma, may, for good cause shown, be allowed there-
after to present himself for examination without payment of a
further fee.
Sec. 6. Nothing in this Act shall be construed to punish any
person for performing merely mechanical work upon inert matter
in a dental office or laboratory; or a registered student who, for
purposes of clinical instruction, in the presence and under the
immediate supervision of his preceptor, may assist the latter in
dental operation, providing that such student shall not, under the
pretense of so assisting a preceptor, practice dentistry by per-
forming operations independently; or a duly licensed and regis-
tered physician or surgeon for his lawful acts in the practice of
his profession. Nothing in this Act shall be construed to sus-
pend or discontinue any prosecution already commenced under
the laws in force prior to the taking effect of this Act, and any
violation of the provisions of this Act forbidding the practice of
dentistry without lawful authority, committed by a person who
shall have been previously convicted under the laws of which this
Act is a codification, in any court within this State as the misde
meanor of practicing dentistry without license or registration,
shall be deemed a second offense within the meaning of this Act.
such laws being to that extent kept in force.
Sec. y. The following Acts are hereby repealed: Chapters
three hundred and thirty-one of the laws of eighteen hundred