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ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING. 
2. The Council shall have the entire management of and super- 
intendence over the affairs, concerns , and property of the body 
politic and corporate . 
3. No payments of money due from the Royal College of 
Veterinary Surgeons shall be made except by order of the Council, 
and only by cheques; such -cheques to be signed by the President 
of such Council meeting, and countersigned by the Treasurer and 
one other Member of the Council then present. 
4. All surplus monies belonging to the Royal College of Vete- 
rinary Surgeons, except what is necessary to be in the hands of 
the bankers for current expenses, shall be vested, from time to 
time, in the Three per Cent. Consols of Great Britain, or other 
Government securities, in the names of trustees appointed by the 
Council. 
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING. 
The Third Annual General Meeting of the Royal College of 
Veterinary Surgeons was held on Monday, May 3d, at the Free- 
masons’ Tavern, Great Queen-street, Lincoln’s Inn-fields, pur- 
suant to the directions of the Charter. The attendance of mem- 
bers was not quite so numerous as on the previous year, the 
number present being only about forty. Amongst them we noticed 
the President and Secretary, Professor Dick, Professor Spooner, 
Mr. Cherry, senior, Mr. W. A. Cherry, Mr. Ernes, Mr. Percivall, 
Mr. Braby, Mr. Henderson, Mr. Mayer, Mr. Turner, Mr. May hew, 
Mr. Vines, Mr. Godwin, Mr. Simonds, &c. 
At half past one o’clock, the President (Thomas Turner, Esq.) 
took the chair, and called upon Mr. Gabriel, the Secretary, to 
commence the business of the day by reading the minutes of the 
previous General Meeting, for the purpose of their confirmation. 
Professor Spooner proposed that, before the Secretary pro- 
ceeded to read the minutes of the previous meeting, the adver- 
tisement convening the meeting be read. 
Mr. Gabriel read the advertisement calling the meeting. 
Mr. Cherry, senior , inquired if that advertisement did not 
confine the business to be done at that meeting simply to the 
election of six members of the Council in the room of the retiring 
members of that Board. 
The President said it certainly did so. 
Mr. Gabriel then read the minutes of the previous meeting, 
and, on 
