206 REGULATIONS FOR THE VETERINARY COLLEGE. 
every Tuesday to receive the reports of the officers, and to ex¬ 
amine into the state of the college. This committee shall consist 
of three of the directors, who shall attend in rotation, and who 
shall receive notice thereof from the secretary on the preceding 
Monday. This committee shall be open to any member of the 
college. 
Such directors as shall not attend, in one year, four councils, or 
shall not have attended in rotation the superintending committees, 
or engaged other directors to attend for them, shall vacate their 
places as directors; and, at the annual election, others shall be 
chosen in their stead into the class they belonged to. 
Any six of the directors are empowered to convene a special 
general meeting in the same manner as the president or three 
vice-presidents. 
If a requisition for a special general meeting be signed by nine 
members entitled to vote, and the business be declared in the re¬ 
quisition, the president, vice-presidents, or directors, shall con¬ 
vene the meeting; and, on refusal, the nine members are em¬ 
powered to convene it in the same manner as the president, vice- 
presidents, or directors, should have done. 
The treasurer, in the absence of the president and vice- 
presidents, shall preside at all meetings of the college, and shall 
report monthly to the council the state of the college accounts. He 
is to pay no bills exceeding twenty pounds without a written order 
signed by three of the council. 
The professor shall have the arrangement and direction of 
the studies and occupations of the pupils, of the distribution of his 
lectures, and of the number and nature of the subjects required 
for dissection. He shall likewise judge of the kind and quality of 
the forage to be provided for the infirmary, of the regulation of the 
cattle therein, and of the remedies to be employed. He shall 
make a report every week .to the committee of the state of the 
college, viz. the number and condition of the animals admitted 
into the college; the number and condition of the animals dis¬ 
charged from the college ; the conduct of the pupils; the conduct 
of the servants; the different sorts of forage, as well as of stores 
and materials wanted, including drugs, &c., except such articles 
as it shall be found necessary to provide between the meetings of 
the committee, which is to be reported at the next meeting of the 
committee. He shall have a copy of the several articles ordered 
from time to time by the committees; and he shall not receive 
any thing into the college but what is so ordered (except as 
above), nor without a bill of parcels. 
The secretary shall reside at the college, and be present at 
all meetings, councils, and committees. He shall take minutes of 
