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SITTINGS OF THE COUNCIL. 
Board then resolved themselves into three Committees and proceeded with 
the examinations. Twenty-four candidates were passed as worthy to receive 
the diplomas of the College, while six were rejected. 
It was unanimously resolved by the Board of Examiners that the Secretary 
should be instructed to write to the Council in London, intimating that they 
considered it but right the Scotch veterinary fee should be the same as that 
in London for each sitting of the Board, and that Mr. Gabriel be respectfully 
requested to bring their claim before the Council. 
Robert M‘Gregor, M.D., Secretary . 
Copy or the Report op the Committee appointed to consider the 
Letters op Dr. Knox and Mr. Mather, together with the Minute 
FORWARDED BY Dr. M‘GREGOR. 
In considering the letters of Dr. Knox and Mr. Mather, and the copy of the 
minute forwarded by Dr. M‘Gregor, Secretary to the Board of Examiners 
appointed for Scotland, the Committee have to report thereon, 
1st. That the allegations of Dr. Knox and Mr. Mather are fully borne out 
by the official Report of Dr. M‘Gregor, the Secretary to the Board of Veteri- 
nary Examiners. 
2d. That the allegation of Mr. Mather concerning the division of the Board 
of Examiners into three distinct Boards, is also borne out by the same official 
document. 
3d. That both these proceedings are a departure from the rules recognized 
by the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons. 
4th. That the act of Professor Dick and Mr. Barlow voting as “ex officio” 
members of the Board of Examiners, is opposed to the express declaration of 
the Charter. 
5th. That by interfering with the appointment of the Chairman to preside 
over the Board of Examiners, Professor Dick did interfere indirectly with the 
examinations of the pupils, and violated the intent of the Charter. 
6th, That Mr. Barlow, not being a Professor or an appointed Lecturer, his 
assumption of the right to vote as an “ ex officio” member of the Board of 
Examiners was a violation of the Bye-law, sect. 5, 3. 
The Committee, therefore, respectfully suggest that the parties who have 
so offended be admonished. 
The Committee would further suggest, that the circumstance of the Board 
of Examiners having countenanced an irregularity by attaching their names 
to diplomas granted to persons who had not been examined before the whole 
Board is much to be regretted, and, if continued, calculated to be detrimental 
to the best interests of the body politic. 
That, to prevent the occurrence of similar irregularities, the portion of the 
Board acting for Scotland be requested to adopt the same mode of examina- 
tion as that pursued by the London portion, and which has received the appro- 
bation of the Council, 
The Committee also suggest the propriety of entering into the consider- 
ation of the remunerations of the Scotch Veterinary Board of Examiners, 
and that it would be highly desirable the English and Scotch Boards should 
be upon one and the same footing, so far as their different arrangements 
permit. 
E. Mayhew, 
E. N. Gabriel, 
W. A. Cherry. 
