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ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING. 
It is our duty to remind our readers that Monday next is the 
day appointed, by charter, for the holding of the ANNUAL GENERAL 
Meeting of the Veterinary Profession. The words of our Charter 
of Incorporation are AND WE DO FURTHER DIRECT, 
That on the first Monday in the month of May, one thousand eight 
hundred and forty-five, and on the first Monday in the month of 
May in every subsequent year, an Annual General Meeting of the 
members of the said body politic and corporate shall be held at 
some place within the City of London or Westminster, or the 
suburbs thereof; and every Annual or other General Meeting of 
the members of the body politic and corporate shall be convened 
by the Council by advertisements published in the London Gazette, 
and in such two or more London and Dublin daily newspapers, 
and in two or more Edinburgh papers, as the Council shall think 
fit, at least twenty-one days, and not more than thirty days, before 
the time of holding the same ; and in each advertisement the object 
of such general meeting shall, and the day, hour, and place of 
meeting shall be specified ; and the annual general meetings and 
the adjournments thereof shall be held, and the business to be done 
thereat shall be transacted, whatever may be the number of the 
members present thereat ; but no business shall be transacted at 
any other general meeting of the body politic and corporate, unless 
ten or more members shall be present : and every annual or other 
general meeting may adjourn to such time as the original meeting 
or any adjournment thereof shall think proper ; and every adjourned 
meeting shall be considered a continuance of the meeting from 
which the adjournment took place, and no business shall be trans- 
acted at any adjourned meeting except the business left unfinished 
at the general meeting from which the adjournment took place. 
AND WE DO HEREBY FURTHER DIRECT AND DE- 
CLARE, * * * That on the day on which the annual general 
meeting in the month of May, one thousand eight hundred and 
forty-five, and on the day on which the annual general meeting 
shall be held in every subsequent year, the president and vice- 
presidents and six members of the council, and also the secretary, 
shall go out of office ; but any president or vice-presidents who 
shall have been appointed from amongst the members of the coun- 
cil, and any secretary, shall not by reason of his going out of office 
