318 
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING. 
pared to contend that any thing brought before the meeting, and 
not contained in the advertisement calling the meeting, was illegal. 
The President said it was now his pleasing duty, for the fourth 
time, to congratulate them on the Charter they had obtained. 
He thought it would not be necessary for him to go into the 
particulars of the proceedings of the Council during the past year, 
as they were so fully stated in the printed Report the members 
then had in their hands ; still he could not refrain from bearing his 
testimony to the exertions of the Council in promoting the interests 
of their glorious cause, to which they had devoted their time, 
money, and energies, and, having listened to them night after 
night, he felt bound to pay profound testimony to their exertions. 
Their attention had been directed to an important alteration of the 
Apprenticeship clause, and for the future those who shall have 
attended for four sessional years the practice and lectures specified 
in Law 3, Section 6, at one of the recognized Colleges, will be 
admitted ; and gentlemen, and men of education, will become 
members of the College, and rising and experienced veterinary 
surgeons. The after-good which would be thereby attained would 
shew forth the veterinary art as having belonging to it men who 
are a credit to the profession ; he, therefore, trusted that they 
would pursue the system of registration which would alone shew 
those who are veterinarians from those that are not, so that the 
world might know who are really competent practitioners — the 
veterinary surgeon from the cowleech. That would lead to the 
advantages from the Charter which he was proud to say he could 
see soon approaching. He knew that several talented, learned, 
and distinguished individuals, both in and out of Parliament, 
were exerting themselves on their behalf, and that they would get 
what they desired ; he hoped, therefore, that the meeting would 
now proceed to the election of six members of the Council for the 
ensuing year, and that in doing so they would select gentlemen 
who would carry out the important objects of the Charter, and 
that, having so done, they would separate with satisfaction at the 
unanimity which had that day prevailed. 
Mr. Gabriel then proceeded to read the “ Third Annual 
Report of the Council of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, 
to the Members of the Profession,” which occupied upwards of 
half an hour in the reading, and was followed by much applause. 
Professor Dick asked why no report from the Board of Exa- 
miners had been read. He considered it most proper that it should 
be read, and it ought to have been appended to the printed report. 
Mr. Gabriel requested to be allowed to read the finance account 
for the year. 
Mr. May hew called upon, the members to conduct the proceed- 
