PROCEEDINGS OF COUNCIL. 63 
The Minutes of the preceding meeting having been read 
and confirmed, — 
The Secretary read the following Report from the House 
Committee. 
Your Committee have to announce, as the result of the 
negociations reported at the last Quarterly Meeting, that they 
have taken, as a “ local habitation” for the College, the house 
No. 10, Red Lion Square ; hereafter to be designated the 
“ Institute of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons.” 
As some compensation for the delay which has hitherto 
attended their labours, they are happy to state, that these 
premises afford by far the greatest extent of accommodation 
of any previously selected by them. On the first floor are 
four rooms well calculated for Council and Board rooms, 
Library, and Museum, with a waiting room for the Students 
in connection therewith. The rooms are sufficiently spacious, 
not only to accommodate the Council and Examiners at their 
Meetings, but also at the Annual General Meeting, &c., the 
members of the profession will be enabled to assemble under 
their own roof. The situation is central, and easily reached 
from any of the railway termini. 
The house is taken on a lease of 7, 14, or 21 years, at the 
very moderate rental of £60 a year. It is undergoing a 
thorough repair, and the Committee trust the next Quarterly 
Meeting of the Council will be held therein. 
The expense of purchasing the fixtures and carrying out 
the repairs will amount to £240 ; after which outlay the 
annual expenses — taking into consideration the £30 relin- 
quished by the Secretary, and the saving of £20 a year for 
hire of rooms, — will not exceed £40, including rent and taxes. 
The w r orks being considerably advanced, your Committee 
have to request an order for £100 on account thereof. The 
sum of £150 has already been granted for furnishing, &c., 
w'hich sum it is believed will cover the cost of all that is abso- 
lutely for the present required. 
Your Committee have again, in reference to their first 
Report, to recommend the engagement of a messenger, who 
shall be in regular attendance, keep the rooms in order, be 
in waiting at all the meetings, and be under the immediate 
direction of the resident officer. The salary proposed to be 
allowed is 16,?. a-week, or £40 a-year. The annual additional 
expenses of the College, therefore, for house and attendance, 
will not exceed £80 ; the casual expenses for coals, lights, 
coffees, &c., can form but a very trifling addition to this — 
say £20, and £100 a-year will cover the whole. 
Your Committee have spared neither time nor trouble to 
