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ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OF THE 
Abstract of the Proceedings of the Council of the Boy at College of 
Veterinary Surgeons , during the Year 1852 - 53 . 
It is extremely gratifying to your Council, on the return 
of another Anniversary, to be able, in this their Ninth Annual 
Report, to greet you with the assurance that “ All’s Well;” 
and if, during the past year, there may have been some 
points not arranged quite as harmoniously as a “ Marriage 
Bell,” yet nothing untoward has arisen to check our onward 
progress. Where so little change requiring comment has 
taken place, a brief report of our proceedings may suffice. 
The Council had hoped to have been enabled to have 
announced to this meeting that a permanent residence had 
been procured for the College, in which all official business 
could have been transacted, and which at the same time 
would have afforded a residence for one of its officers, so that 
a medium of communication might always have been ensured, 
a point more immediately desirable for country members 
visiting the metropolis. A house in a most central locality 
was selected by a Committee appointed for that purpose, and 
orders were given to the solicitor to purchase the same ; but, 
by one of the many instances of the “ Law’s delay,” it was 
lost, and another site equally eligible has not as yet pre- 
sented itself. The House Committee, however, will lose 
no opportunity of obtaining the object intrusted to their 
charge. 
The endeavour to obtain the Bill of Exemptions, which 
was lost last year, has not as yet been renewed. This, how- 
ever, has not arisen from any supineness on the part of those 
commissioned to carry it out, but has resulted from the 
sudden changes in the Government, and the more important 
topics which have engaged the attention of the Legislature, 
as well as from the fact, that it is feared the parties now in 
power do not entertain a favorable view of the measure ; but 
of this the profession may be assured, that the very first 
opportunity of reintroducing the Bill which presents itself 
will be taken advantage of. 
Your time-honoured President, Professor Sewell, this day 
resigns his office. His health, unfortunately, has not been 
such as to allow him to devote much personal attendance to 
the interests of the College, but his anxious desire for its 
continued improvement is well known to all. 
