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REVIEW OF DENTISTRY. 83

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary'land, That sections
one and eight of the Act passed at the January session, eighteen
hundred and eighty-four, entitled "An Act to insure the better
-education of practitioners of dental surgery, and to regulate the
practice of dentistry in the State of Maryland," be, and the same
is hereby, repealed and re-enacted, so as to read as follows:
Section i. That it shall be unlawful for any person who is
not, at the time of the passage of this Act, engaged in the prac-
tice of dentistry, to practice dentistry unless he or she shall have
obtained a certificate as herein provided, or shall hold a diploma
from a university or college authorized to grant diplomas in den-
tal surgery; any person holding such a diploma, and desiring to
commence such practice, shall present the same to the Board of
Examiners created by this Act, for approval; such Examining
Board, being satisfied as to the qualifications of the applicant
and the genuineness of the diploma, shall endorse the same as
approved, and issue the certificate of registration provided for in
this Act.
Sec. 8. That nothing in this Act shall be so construed as to
interfere with the rights and privileges of resident physicians .and
surgeons in the discharge of their professional duties.
Approved April 7, 1886.

MASSACHUSETTS.

An Act to Establish a Board of Registration in Dentistry.

Be it E?iacted, etc. as follows :
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Section i. The Governor of the Commonwealth, with the
advice and consent of the council, shall appoint, after the passage
of this Act, five skilled dentists of good repute, residing and
doing business within the Commonwealth, who shall constitute a
Board of Registration in Dentistry; but no person shall be eligi-
ble to serve on said Board unless he or she shall have been
regularly graduated from some reputable medical or dental col-
lege duly authorized to grant degrees in dentistry, or shall have
been engaged in the practice of dentistry for a period of not less
than ten years previous to his appointment: Provided, hozvever,
that no person shall be eligible to serve on said Board who is in
any way pecuniarily connected with any dental college or dental
department of any college or university. The term for which