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applicant: Provided, That nothing in this Act shall prevent any
person from extracting teeth, with or without compensation, or
in any manner interfere with any person who was* engaged in the
practice of dentistry in this State on the fourteenth day of May,
one thousand eight hundred and eighty-one. The term of office
of such Board shall be five years.
Approved February 22, 1883.

WISCONSIN.

An Act to Regulate the Practice of Dentistry, and to
Establish a Board of Dental Examiners.

The People of the State of Wisconsin, represented in the Senate and
Assembly, do Enact as follows:

Section i. It shall be unlawful for any person who is not, at
the time of the passage of this Act, engaged in the practice of
dentistry in this State, to commence such practice, unless he
shall have obtained a license as hereinafter provided.
Sec. 2. A Board of Examiners, to consist of five practicing
dentists, is hereby created, whose duty it shall be to carry out the
purpose and enforce the provisions of this Act. That members
of said Board shall be appointed by the Governor. Three mem-
bers of this Board, at least, shall be members of the Wisconsin
State Dental Society. The terms for which the members of said
Board shall hold their offices shall be five years, except that the
members of the Board first appointed under this Act shall hold
their offices for the terms of one, two, three, four and five years,
respectively, and until their successors are appointed and quali-
fied. In case of vacancy occurring in said Board such vacancy
shall be filled by the Governor.
Sec. 3. Said Board shall choose one of its members Presi-
dent, and one Secretary thereof, and it shall meet at least once in
each year and as much oftener and at such times and places as it
may deem necessary. A majority of said Board shall at all meet-
ings constitute a quorum, and the proceedings thereof shall, at all
reasonable times, be open to public inspection.
Sec. 4. It shall be the duty of every person who is engaged
in the practice of dentistry in this State, within six months from
the date of the passage of this Act, and annually thereafter, to
cause his or her name and residence or place of business to be