THE BYE-LAWS OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE. 
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as president, or vice-president, or secretary, cease to be a member 
of the council ; and that any member of the said body politic and 
corporate, whether for the time being a member of the council or 
not, shall be eligible to be appointed to the office of president or 
vice-president, and that the secretary shall at all times be ap- 
pointed from the members of the Council, See. See.” 
The six members this present year to go out of office, “ according 
to the dates of the respective certificates of qualification granted 
by the Royal Veterinary College of London, or by the Veterinary 
College of Edinburgh,” are — Messrs. Field, Home, Baker, Braby, 
Mayer, jun., and Ernes : it being right we should remind our 
readers in regard to them, in the words of the Charter, “ that 
the members of the council for the time being going out of office 
shall be considered to be re-eligible to that office, either immediately 
or any time afterwards.” 
In accordance with the suggestion of a respected friend, a 
Member of our Council, we this month publish our Bye-laws; not 
doubting that they will be acceptable, by way of information and 
guidance, to most of our subscribers. 
BYE-LAWS, &c. OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF 
VETERINARY SURGEONS. 
SECTION I. 
THE SEAL. 
The Common Seal of the Royal College of Veterinary 
Surgeons shall consist of the Armorial Bearings, Crest, and 
Motto of the College, as follows; viz. — 
Arms : — Argent, a cross, engrailed gules between a horse’s 
head erased in the first quarter; an arrow in bend, entwined by 
and piercing a serpent in the second ; a horseshoe in the third, all 
proper ; and a bull’s head, erased sable in the fourth. 
Crest : — On a wreath of the colours, a centaur proper, holding 
a shield argent, charged with an aloe, also proper, as the same are 
in the margin hereof more plainly depicted. 
