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title the person to whom it is issued to all the rights and privi-
leges set forth in Section I of an Act approved April 8, 1878, to
amend an Act entitled " An Act to Incorporate the Kentucky
State Dental Association: Provided, That nothing in this amend-
ment shall be so construed as to prevent physicians or surgeons
from extracting teeth.
Sec. 4. Any person who shall, in violation of this Act, prac-
tice dentistry or dental surgery in the State of Kentucky, for fee
or reward, shall be subject to indictment by the Grand Jury of
the county in which the offense is committed, and upon convic-
tion shall be fined in the sum of not less than fifty dollars nor
more than two hundred dollars for each offense.
Sec. 5. All Acts or parts of (Acts) in conflict with this Act
are hereby repealed.
Sec. 6. This Act shall take effect from and after its passage.

LOUISIANA.

An Act to Regulate the Practice of Dentistry within the
State of Louisiana, and to Protect the People Against
Empiricism in Regard to the Same.

Section i. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of
Louisiana, That, from and after the passage of this Act, it shall
be unlawful for an}' person to practice dentistry in the State of
Louisiana, unless said person has graduated and received a di-
ploma from the faculty of a dental college, chartered under the
authority of some one of the United States, or of some foreign
government, or shall have obtained a certificate from a Board of
Examining Dentists, duly authorized by this Act to issue such
certificates.
Sec. 2. Be itfurther enacted, etc., That the Board of Examin-
ing Dentists shall consist of five dental graduates, practitioners
of dentistry, who are members in good standing in the Louisiana
State Dental Society, and have been practicing in the State of
Louisiana for a term not less than three years. Said Board shall
be elected by the State Dental Society to serve for two years.
The President of said Louisiana State Dental Society shall have
power to fill all vacancies in the said Board for unexpired terms.
Be itfurther e?iacted, etc., That it shall be the duty of
Sec. 3.
this Board, first, to meet, annually, at the time of the meeting of
the Louisiana State Dental Society, or oftener at the call of any