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unchartered person had received a commission as veterinary sur- 
geon in the army. 
Mr. Gabriel regarded the appointment recently made by the 
Commissioners of Customs as analogous to what we might expect 
would be the rule followed in the army. They had refused to con- 
tinue an individual in their employ on account of the want of a 
diploma from the chartered body, and had made a fresh appoint- 
ment. 
Mr. Pritchard would ask it of Mr. Cherry, as a personal favour, 
to disclose what he knew about the matter. 
Mr. Cherry , however, remained inexorable; repeating, he should 
have felt happy to have afforded the required interpretation, had 
the request come to him in a proper manner. 
Here the discussion of the subject dropped. 
The second question for the deliberation of Council was, the 
further liquidation of their debt. 
The Secretary , in the absence of the Treasurer (Mr. Field), who 
had been compelled on urgent business to leave town, announced 
that their present balance in hand, after satisfying all demands, 
amounted to £286.. 14s.. Oc?., and that it was proposed to apply 
£100 of this to the further liquidation of their debt. 
Carried nem. con. 
It having been moved and seconded, that the usual annual al- 
lowance be placed at the disposal of the Secretary, 
Letters were read from Messrs. Baldwin of Fakenham, Ions of 
Waterford, Robt. Carter of East Dereham, Leigh of Clifton, and 
Childe of Hackney, in answer to notifications severally addressed 
to them by the Secretary, of their respective elections as Vice- 
Presidents for the sessional year ensuing. They all expressed 
themselves honoured and gratified at their appointments ; and Mr. 
Childe added, that, apprehending he was in arrears as a subscriber 
to the corporate fund, he had sent as a donation five guineas. 
The Secretary stated that, in reply to the presentation he had 
made of the Annual Report of the Council to the Royal Agricul- 
tural Society, he had been officially informed that “ the donation 
had been received with their best thanks.” 
Mr. Burley would avail himself of this occasion to remark that, 
in the country, he was sorry to inform the Council there existed 
many instances of uncertificated men being appointed by the agents 
of Cattle Insurance Societies, and this operated injuriously to the 
regular faculty. He, however, did not mean to infer that the Royal 
Agricultural Society had any thing whatever to do with it. 
The Secretary, in the absence of Mr. Arthur Cherry (who was 
confined to his house by indisposition), was instructed, in the name 
