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entitled to the privileges and benefits of this Act under Section
I ), desirous of entering the profession or calling of dentistry,
shall be apprenticed to a practitioner duly qualified under this
Act for a period of three years, and shall file his articles of
apprenticeship with the Secretary within one calendar month
after the said articles have been executed.
13. Any such person having been so apprenticed as aforesaid,
shall, at the completion of the term of his apprenticeship, and
upon the production to the Secretary of satisfactory evidence of
his having served his apprenticeship, and of his good moral char-
acter, be entitled to be examined as to his fitness to practice the
profession or calling of dentistry before the Board of Examiners
appointed under this Act, and shall, upon passing such examina-
tion to the satisfaction of the said Board, receive a certificate
upon the payment of a fee of ten dollars, which shall entitle
him to all the rights and privileges of this Act.
This Act is valid since 1891.
The British Columbia Dental Association was founded Febru-

ary 16, 1 89 1.
The number of dentists in British Columbia was, in June, 1893,
twenty-four.

PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND.

The Act respecting the practice of dentistry in the Province
of Prince Edward Island, was passed July 15, 1891. It reads as
follows:
Whereas, It is desirable to regulate the practice of dentistry
in the Province of Prince Edward Island;
Be it Enacted by the Lieutenant-Governor, Council and Assembly as
follows:

1. This Act may be cited as "The Prince Edward Island
Dental Act."
2. That no person shall practice the profession of dentistry
or dental surgery in the Province of Prince Edward Island with-
out having first received a certificate as hereinafter provided,
entitling him to practice dentistry or dental surgery.
That such certificate shall be issued by the Provincial
3.
Secretary, upon production to him of diploma of graduation in
dental surgery from the faculty of any Canadian dental college,