Chap. 455.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1767, of the code of Virginia,
as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact sec-
tions 1767 and 1774 as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 2, 18.4,
reluting to the practice of dentistry,

Approved February 23, 1898.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
seventeen hundred and sixty-seven, code of Virginia, as amended and re-
enacted by an act entitled an act to amend sections seventeen hundred
und sixty-seven and seventeen hundred and seventy-four, as amended
by an act approved March the second, eighteen hundred and ninety-four,
be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

$1767. Who may practice dentistry.— From and after the passage of
this act it shall be unlawful for any person to engage in the practice of
dentistry in the commonwealth of Virginia, or to assist in the practice of
dentistry for compensation as cither assistant or employee, or to re-
celve license from any commissioner of the revenue, unless such person
shall have obtained a certificate from the board of examiners as provided
in section one thousand seven hundred and sixty-nine of this chapter:
provided, that persons who held license to practice dentistry in this com-
inonwealth, on the twenty-cighth day of January, eighteen hundred and
ninety, and have complicd with the requirements of section one thou-
sand seven hundred and seventy-four, shall be otherwise exempt from
the provisions of this section: and provided, further, that nothing con-
tained in this section shall prevent any authorized physician or surgeon
from extracting teeth or any other person from extracting teeth for ; any
one suffering from toothache.

2. This act shall be in force from its passage.