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or the faculty of any Canadian university having a special
dental department, or from any such institution duly authorized
by the laws of Great Britain or any of her dependencies, or from
any dental college in the United States of America recognized
by the National Board of Dental Examiners of the said United
States of America, or from any recognized dental institution of
any other foreign country which required at the time of issue of
such diploma or license, attendance at a regular course of lectures,
and an apprenticeship of not less than two years; or to a person
who has been in regular practice in Prince Edward Island as a
dentist or dental surgeon for a period of six months, immediately
preceding the passing of this Act; and it shall be the duty of the
persons claiming to be entitled to the certificate required by this*
section to produce to the said Provincial Secretary evidence,
satisfactory to him, of his being entitled thereto.
And it is further enacted, that notwithstanding anything
4.
herein contained, such certificate as aforesaid may be issued to
any dental student who at the time of the passing of this Act
was actually apprenticed to any surgeon dentist in this Province,
and who shall actually at the time of applying for such certificate,
have served apprenticeship of at least two years, and who shall
also produce a certificate to the Provincial Secretary from such
surgeon dentist testifying to the effect that the applicant
was duly apprenticed before the passing of this Act for
at least one month, and has at the time of application com-
pleted an apprenticeship of at least two years. Provided Always,
that nothing herein contained, shall be construed to require
physicians, surgeons, or others to take out such certificate for the
purpose of qualifying them to extract teeth.
That before any such certificate is granted, the applicant
5.
shall pay the Provincial Secretary the sum of five dollars
6. After three months from the passing of this Act, any per-
son not holding a valid certificate issued by the said Provincial
Secretary as aforesaid, who practices dentistry or dental surgery
except extracting teeth, shall be. guilty of an infraction of this
Act, and shall be liable upon summary conviction, before the
stipendiary magistrate of the city of Charlottetown, or the stipen-
diary magistrate of the town of Summerside, or before any two
justices of the peace for the county in which the offender
resides, to a fine of not less than five dollars, nor more than
twenty-five dollars, besides costs of suit, to be levied by distress