LAWS OF THE VETERINARY MEDICAL SOCIETY. 301 
9. A Copy of the Laws, and a List of the Members, shall, during 
every Meeting, be laid on the table for immediate reference. 
10. Those medical gentlemen whose theatres are gratuitously 
open to the Veterinary Students, and likewise the members of the 
Veterinary Examining Committee, shall be eligible as, and invited 
to, become Honorary Members. 
11. Physicians or Surgeons of eminence, who have distinguish¬ 
ed themselves for their researches in comparative anatomy, and 
Foreign Veterinary Surgeons, are eligible as Honorary Mem¬ 
bers. They must be proposed in the usual way, and elected by 
ballot. 
12. No admission fee shall be required from an Honorary 
Member. 
13. The Officers of the Society shall consist of a President, 
four Vice-Presidents, a Treasurer, a Secretary, and a Committee 
of six Members. 
14. The President shall be elected by ballot on the first night 
of every session, and shall be exempt from fine. 
15. The four Vice-Presidents shall likewise be elected on the 
same evening. 
16. The Vice-Presidents shall, in the absence of the President, 
take the chair in rotation; and if the gentleman whose turn it 
may be shall be absent at Seven o’Clock, he shall forfeit the sum 
of Half-a-Guinea, unless he have deputed one of the other Vice- 
Presidents to act in his stead. 
17. Six Members shall likewise be elected by ballot on the 
same evening, to constitute a Committee. 
• 18. The President, Vice-Presidents, Treasurer, and Secretaiy, 
shall be ex-officio members of the Committee. 
19. The nomination of Treasurer and Secretary, the considera¬ 
tion and enactment of new Laws, and the general Management of 
the Society, shall be vested in the Committee. 
20. An appeal to the Society at large against any act of the 
Committee must be signed by six members, and delivered, in 
writing, to the President of the evening, before Nine o’Clock, 
who shall announce the same for consideration at the next ensuing 
meeting. 
21. The Committee shall assemble as often as they may deem 
necessary during the session, or a special meeting may be called 
by any six members. The Secretaiy shall issue the summonses, 
giving at least three days’ notice. 
22. No alteration nor addition to the Laws shall be made by 
the Committee, unless seven members present shall vote for it, 
and notice of such proposed alteration or addition shall have been 
previously sent to every member of the Committee. 
