Chap. 565.—An ACT to amend section 3 of an act entitled an act to regulate the
practice of veterinary medicine and surgery in the state of Virginia, approved
February 27, 1896.

Approved February 24, 1498.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
hree of an act entitled an act to regulate the practice of veterinary
medicine and surgery in the state of Virginia, approved February
wenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, be, and the same 1:
nereby, amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 3. Any person shall be regarded as practicing veterinary medicine
wr surgery, within the meaning of this act, who shall profess publicly
to be a veterinary surgeon and offers for practice as such, or who shal
prescribe for sick domestic animals, needing medical or surgical aid.
and shall charge and receive therefor money or other compensation.
directly or indirectly. But nothing in this act shall apply to resident:
of this state who confine their practice to the castration, spaying or de
horning of live stock, nor shall it prevent anyone, who does not clain
to be a veterinarian or veterinary surgeon, from prescribing for liv
stock.

2. All acts and parts of acts in conflict with this are hereby repealed

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