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SITTINGS OF THE COUNCIL. 
Mr. Ernes, “ That the present Edinburgh Board of Examiners be 
dissolved.” 
The next business was “ the election of two Auditors.” This 
motion, however, by dint of some suggestions thrown out on the 
occasion, was deferred. 
The Legal Opinions on the proposed By-laws, which had 
been received since the last Meeting, were then read by the Se- 
cretary. The barristers to whom they had been submitted for 
judgment were, Sir Frederick Thesiger, Sir John Jervis, and 
Mr. John Jago. These gentlemen differed very materially in their 
opinions on some of the By-laws taken into their deliberation; and 
this difference was, unfortunately, found to pervade those very 
points on which it was most desirable that decision, equitable and 
final, should have been come to. Some few cursory observations 
were made by several gentlemen present in reference to the above 
alluded- to opinions; the length and variety of them, however, 
were found to preclude all possibility of coming then, and particu- 
larly at so advanced a stage of the proceedings, to any thing definite 
concerning them : it was, therefore, judged expedient that the opi- 
nions, which were in writing, should be printed and circulated among 
the members. To this was added, that it would be as well, at the 
same time, to reprint the proposed By-laws themselves; the copies 
formerly distributed appearing, in some instances, to have been 
mislaid and lost. 
Notice of motion was given by Mr. Wilkinson, that steps be 
taken to, for the time to come, take down and print in detail the 
proceedings in Council, with a view of the same being distributed 
among its members. 
For the convenience of members coming long distances out of 
the country, it was asked by the Chairman, if there would be any 
objection to an alteration of the days of meeting of Council from 
Wednesdays to Saturdays or Mondays. In answer to this re- 
quest, a general wish was expressed to afford any and every ac- 
commodation to the gentlemen in question ; and Monday being 
considered, altogether, of the two days named, the more conve- 
nient one, that was fixed for the next and every subsequent meet- 
ing on which the By-laws, and the legal opinions on them, shall 
form the subject of discussion. 
