204 REGULATIONS FOR THE VETERINARY COLLEGE. 
chosen annually. The twenty-four directors shall be divided 
into four classes; one class shall go out each year, and six 
directors be elected in their place. . No director shall be re¬ 
elected till after the intervention of one year. 
IV. Ten members shall form a quorum at a general meeting, 
five a quorum of the council, and three a quorum of a com¬ 
mittee. 
V. Five auditors shall be annually chosen; three of whom 
shall not be of the council, nor on any committee. 
VI. The eighteenth of February, being the day on which it 
was resolved to establish a veterinary coliege, shall be the anni¬ 
versary; on which day the several officers of the college shall be 
elected, and the members invited to dine together, unless it 
shall happen on a Saturday or Sunday, and in that case the 
Meeting shall be heldon the Tuesday following. 
VII. Four quarterly general meetings shall be held in the year, 
viz. on the first Tuesday in February ; the first Tuesday in May ; 
the first Tuesday in August; and the first Tuesday in November ; 
at which meetings the minutes of the last quarterly and all sub¬ 
sequent general meetings shall be read. 
VIII. No regulation shall be altered or repealed, nor shall 
any new r regulation be enacted, but by the consent of two-thirds 
of the members present at two successive quarterly meetings ; 
and every proposed regulation, alteration, or repeal shall, after 
the first meeting, be fairly written, and exhibited in the council 
room for public perusal and consideration. This regulation shall 
extend also to the removal of any of the officers of the college 
whose salary shall amount to £150 per annum or upwards. 
IX. A discretionary power shall be lodged in the council, by 
which they may in cases of emergency, or where the advantage 
of the institution is evidently concerned, make orders, which 
shall have the force of regulations till the next quarterly meet¬ 
ing, when they shall be submitted to the determination of the 
meeting. 
X. Any sum not less than two guineas shall be a qualification 
for an annual member, and not less than twenty guineas for a 
perpetual member. 
XI. No person shall be entitled to debate or vote at any meet¬ 
ing who has not been a member six calendar months, nor until 
his subscription for the current year, and all his arrears, are paid ; 
and no person shall be entitled to be present at any meeting whose 
subscription shall be two years in arrear. 
XII. At all elections, peers and members of parliament, and 
ladies (having been subscribers six months), shall be allowed to 
vote by proxy ; such proxy being a member of the college. 
