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VERMONT.

(No. 118.)
An Act Regulating the Practice of Dentistry.
// is hereby Enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Vermont:

Section i. There shall be a Board of Dental Examiners.
The Board to consist of five dental graduates or practitioners of
dentistry, to be appointed by the Governor in the month of
November, 1882, and in the month of November biennially there-
after. The term of office of members so appointed shall com-
mence on the first day of December following their appointment
and continue for two years, and until their successors are ap-
pointed. The Governor shall fill vacancies in the Board.
Sec. 2. The Board shall meet annually or oftener. Meetings
shall be held on the call of three members. Thirty days' notice
of each meeting shall be given by mail to each practicing dentist
in the State known to the Board.

Sec. 3. The Board shall at their meetings examine applicants
for licenses to practice dentistry, and shall grant a license to each
one whom they find qualified, on payment to the Board by such
person of the sum of five dollars. The Board shall grant a
license without fee to any person who has received a diploma
from any incorporated dental college and to each person residing
and engaged in the practice of dentistry within the State at the
time of the passage of this Act, on application of such person
accompanied by satisfactory proof of the facts which entitle him
to such.
Sec. 4. Any member of the Board may, when the Board is
not in session, grant a license to practice dentistry to a person
whom such member finds on examination to be qualified, on the
payment of the sum of two dollars by such person. A license so
granted shall be valid until the next meeting of the Board, but
not longer. Each member shall make a report of licenses so
granted by him at the meeting of the Board next following the
granting of the license. A member shall not grant a license under
the provisions of this section to one who has been rejected by the
Board as unqualified.
Sec. 5. Members of the Board shall receive three dollars,
each, a day for time spent in examining applicants and granting
licenses, if the fees received from applicants during the biennial
term, in which such services are rendered, shall be sufficient