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objection to an immediate decision 
if the Council thought it desirable. 
Sir Jacob Wilson said he had 
received several letters on the subject 
from Members of CouncU, and seeing 
it was a very important question, and 
opinions differed upon it amongst 
practical men, he thought it would 
be better for the matter to be referred 
to the Stock Prizes Committee, as 
Mr. Parker had suggested. 
Mr. Sanday felt it was undesirable 
to settle the question then, when there 
was really no time for its considera- 
tion. He moved as an amendment 
that the matter should be referred to 
the Stock Prizes Committee, though, 
as Chairman of the Committee, he 
had no special desire for this course 
to be taken. 
Mr, Mainwaring thought it would 
be better to refer the matter to the 
Stock Prizes Committee, so that any 
objections might be heard. At the 
same time, he personally thought it 
would be a good thing if the docking 
of tails were stopped. 
Mr. Teemayne asked why the 
Stock Prizes Committee should be 
selected as the tribunal to which this 
matter should be referred. 
Sir Jacob Wilson replied that the 
Stock Prizes Committee was supposed 
to contain representatives of all the 
different breeds of horses, and, more- 
over, the resolution, if passed, must 
come before that Committee in con- 
nection with the regulations for the 
prize-sheet. 
Viscount Emlyn pointed out that 
all the members of the Stock Prizes 
Committee were also members of 
the Council. 
Mr. Walter Gilbey said that if 
horses’ tails were not docked whilst 
they were young he did not know 
when they would be docked. If the 
docking were done when the animal 
was young, it was no punishment to 
it ; whereas, if the operation were 
delayed, it was much more painful to 
the horse. The motion, if carried, 
would be almost a veto on docking 
horses’ tails at all. Such a rule, if 
passed, would not prevent his docking 
the tails of his foals, because, other- 
wise, when they were grown up he 
would not be able to sell them. He 
thought the resolution should be post- 
poned. 
Sir Massey Lopes moved an 
amendment, which was seconded by 
Mr. Dent, to the effect that the 
question should be postponed for con- 
sideration by the Council at their next 
meeting. 
Mr. Martin said the question was 
a very wide and difficult one. If 
horses had to be docked at all, it was 
less painful when they were young. 
They would soon come to the question 
of docking sheep. He was in favour 
of postponement. 
The amendment of Sir Massey 
Lopes, for the postponement of the 
consideration of the question until 
the next meeting of the Council, was 
then put and carried by general 
consent. 
Country Meeting of 1894. 
The Secretary read formal in- 
vitations to the Society from the 
local authorities of Cambridge and 
St. Albans for the Country Meeting of 
1894 to be held in their respective 
towns, and the thanks of the Society 
were ordered to be sent therefor, the 
invitations to be further considered 
after the recess. 
Dates of future Meetings. 
On the motion of Sir Jacob 
Wilson, the date of the general 
meeting of Governors and Members in 
December was fixed for Thursday, 
December 8. 
The Council then adjourned over 
the autumn recess until Wednesday, 
November 2, 1892. 
