PROCEEDINGS IN COUNCIL. 
661 
ACCOUNT OF Expenses incurred by the Committee appointed 
to obtain an Act for Exemptions and Privileges for 
Veterinary Surgeons, June and July, 1851. 
£ s. d. 
Mr. Jagoe for Fees, Copying, and incidental Ex- 
penses, cash out of pocket 15 0 0 
Ditto, for Fees in House of Commons .... 550 
The Secretary to Committee, for Stationery, Post- 
ages, and incidentals, as per Account .... 452 
Mr. G. J. Collins, for engrossing Petitions, Cir- 
culars, & c. as per Account 54 1 4 
£78 1 1 6 
By Cash, as per order on Treasurer 25 0 0 
Balance due £53 11 6 
William Robinson, Chairman. 
Arthur Cherry, Sec. to Committee. 
He expressed his belief that the measure was not defeated 
upon its own merits, but through the opposition of the Govern- 
ment; and 
The President stated that the Government had declared its 
opposition to the Bill; and that it was through Government in- 
fluence alone that the Bill was rejected. He read several letters 
from members of Parliament relating to the division on the 
Bill, and recommended another effort to be made to obtain the 
measure next session. It was unfortunate that the Bill had 
been placed in the hands of Mr. Hume, who was ill and unable 
to attend to it; so that there was no one to support it when it 
was first proposed. Mr. Bass was kind enough to move it in 
Committee. He could not understand why the Government 
should oppose the Bill : seeing that its object was recognized 
in the preamble of the Charter. 
Mr. Wilkinson thought the labours of the Committee had not 
been well directed. He complained that they had not commu- 
nicated with the members of the Council, to inform them of the 
progress of the Bill through Parliament, so that they might 
exert themselves in procuring votes when the division took 
place. At the last meeting the Treasurer stated that the proba- 
ble expenditure of the Committee would be £25. Instead of 
that, however, it appeared that £70 had been expended. He 
thought they should not throw away such a sum every year for 
a Bill about the benefits of which all were not agreed. Some 
