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shall we, for our part, regard them as efficient until such 
available means be obtained and made use of. 
The fee paid by the candidate for examination has been 
doubled. In both the former codes of laws it stood at five gui- 
neas; in the present one it is made ten guineas. Some strong 
objections have been urged in council to the passing of this 
law. Nevertheless, it has maintained its ground. Whether 
the enlarged fee will, as has been stated, operate beneficially or 
not as regards the education, character, and station in life of the 
pupil, it will assuredly have the effect of “ bringing grist to the 
mill;” and without something of the kind we do not see how 
the machinery of the College can be kept at work. The exa- 
miners must be paid, the officers of the College must be paid, 
and the rooms in taverns or other places where the examiners 
and Council hold their meetings, must also be paid for ; and, 
since the subscription has now ceased, where the money is to 
come from to do all this, if not out of the examination fees, we 
are at a loss to know. There exist, we are afraid, some serious 
obstacles, in the present disjointed condition of professional 
affairs, in the way of the realization of a Royal College of Vete- 
rinary Surgeons ; but certainly not one of the least of them is 
the want of funds. And whence the supplies are likely to be 
derived we profess to have at present no knowledge. A good 
deal more might be said on the leading points, to the settlement 
of which the by-laws are principally directed ; but, for the pre- 
sent, we find we must “ hold hard.” 
THE BY-LAWS OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF 
VETERINARY SURGEONS. 
1. That all gentlemen shall be proposed lor election in 
Council previous to being balloted for. 
2. Such Members of the College as may be desirous of 
having the names of any persons they may propose as Members 
of the Council included in the list after-mentioned, must give 
notice thereof, in writing, to the Secretary on or before the 14th 
