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air to the same spot, where he can eat and drink, and lie down 
and take his rest at pleasure. There have been some notions 
entertained of adopting, or at least of putting to trial, such a 
mode of fastening at the camp ; and w T e have seen one ex- 
periment made which certainly augured favorably. Were it 
adopted, the piquet posts would require to be driven into the 
ground to such a depth as not to allow them to stand higher 
than a couple of feet out of it. 
TRANSACTIONS OF THE 
ROYAL COLLEGE OF VETERINARY SURGEONS. 
QUARTERLY MEETING OF THE COUNCIL. 
Held on Wednesday, July 13, 1853. 
Present: — Messrs.” Braby, Burley, Cherry, A. Cherry, 
Ernes, King, Lepper, Nice, Silvester, Turner, Wilkinson, 
and the Secretary. 
H. Lepper, Esq., Vice-President, in the Chair. 
The Secretary read the minutes of the preceding meeting, 
which were confirmed ; also a communication from Professor 
Simonds, postponing his motion. 
EXEMPTION BILL COMMITTEE. 
The Secretary read the following report from the Exemption 
Bill Committee : — 
Report of the Exemption Bill Committee . 
“ Your Committee have to report, that, having ascertained 
on the authority of Sir J. Shelley, Mr. Denison, and others, 
that the present Government are decidedly opposed to 
granting any bills of exemptions, they decided on withdraw- 
ing theirs, and applying instead for a similar one to that 
obtained by the Pharmaceutical Society, to prevent persons 
not being members of the body corporate, calling themselves 
Veterinary Surgeons, and directing your secretary to request 
Mr. Garrard to prepare a rough draft of a bill to lay before 
the Council. Mr. Gabriel waited on that gentleman accord- 
ingly, and was informed that the expense of preparing the 
draft would be between £20 and £30, and that when so 
prepared it w 7 ould be so much w 7 aste paper, as he did not 
think there was a chance of its being carried ; that if we 
w*anted a prohibition bill, we must invent a new title, as the 
Pharmaceutical Chemists had done— they not having veil- 
