SITTING OF THE COUNCIL. 
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Charter, than the one submitted to them at their meeting on Friday, 
the 25th ult. ; to give a report of which we have purposely held 
our printers’ hands up to the very latest moment. At so late an 
hour, and pressed as we are, too, for “ copy,” we would fain excuse 
ourselves from entering, this month, on the discussion of this mo- 
mentous question ; nor, perhaps, is it needful that we should do 
so, since before what we are now writing can possibly meet the 
public eye, the point will have been debated afresh, and in all 
probability have been finally pronounced upon. Let us hope, 
therefore, in the acknowledged ability and trust-worthiness of the 
hands and heads in which we leave it, and confidentially leave it, 
that the question will receive — on Wednesday, the 30th — (or 
rather, as we are supposed to be writing on the 1st Sept., we 
may say, will have received), every further sifting it may call 
for, so as ultimately to come to be settled upon the best and surest 
foundations. 
PROCEEDINGS OF THE COUNCIL OF THE ROYAL 
COLLEGE OF VETERINARY SURGEONS. 
Sitting of August 25, 1848. 
(Special Meeting.) 
Present, — The President, the Secretary, Messrs. Field, 
Braby, Mayer, sen. Cherry, sen. Peech, Pritchard, 
Spooner (Professor), Mayhew, Ernes, Burley, F. King, 
Silvester, Percivall, Henderson, Arthur Cherry, 
Goodwin, Robinson, Godwin, and Jas. Turner. 
The minutes being read and confirmed, 
Mr. Field stated that Mr. Walters, who had hitherto acted as 
Solicitor to the Council, having tendered his resignation, he should 
beg leave to move that Mr. Stephen Garrard, of Suffolk-place, Pall 
Mall, be appointed Solicitor to the Council. 
Mr. Henderson seconded the nomination, which, not being op- 
posed, was, as a matter of course, carried. 
The President then stated, that one of the most important 
questions which had ever come before the Council he was about to 
submit for their consideration, and stated that he and Mr. Field had 
had an interview with Mr. Dennison, M.P., one of the Governors 
of the Veterinary College, at which, by request of Mr. Dennison, 
Mr. Coulson, Solicitor to the Treasury, was present ; — that, after a 
lengthened conversation, in which it was stated that the only desire 
of the Governors of the Veterinary College was an alteration in 
the Bye-laws , but leaving the Charter intact, it was arranged that 
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