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ROYAL COLLEGE OF VETERINARY SURGEONS. 
QUARTERLY MEETING OE COUNCIL, held October 30, 1862. 
Present : — The President, Professor Spooner, Messrs. 
Braby, Burley, Dickens, Ellis, Ernes, Field, Goodwin, 
Harpley, Hunt, Jex, Lawson, Moon, Robinson, Silvester, 
Wilkinson, and the Secretary. 
The President, Professor Simonds, in the chair. 
The minutes of the preceding meeting were read and 
confirmed. 
The Secretary read a letter from Mr. Branford, M.R.C.V.S., 
Oundle, on the subject of a non-qualified practitioner having 
been appointed by the magistrates as an inspector of fairs 
and cattle markets, under the Act to prevent the spreading 
of contagious or infectious disorders among sheep, cattle, and 
other animals. 
It was moved by Professor Spooner , and seconded by 
Mr. Ernes — 
“ That a committee be appointed, to consist of the follow¬ 
ing gentlemen, viz., the President, Messrs. Braby, Ernes, 
Goodwin, Harpley, Lawson, Moon, Spooner, and Wilkinson, 
to consider what steps should be taken with a view to pub¬ 
lication, in consequence of the local magistracy having 
appointed parties who are not members of the veterinary 
profession to act as inspectors at fairs and markets, with a 
view to check the spread of epizootic diseases among ani¬ 
mals.^”■—Carried. 
The Secretary reported that he had drawn the attention of 
Messrs. Kelly—publishers of the ‘ Post-Office Directory 3 —to 
the fact that the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons was 
not noticed in that work; and he read a letter received from 
Messrs. Kelly in reply, in which they requested to be furnished 
with a list of members of the profession, to be inserted in 
conjunction with the notice of the College. 
It was moved by Mr. Ernes and seconded by Mr. Harpley — 
“ That Messrs. Kelly be supplied with such information as 
they may require/’—Carried. 
It was moved by Mr. Goodwin and seconded by Mr. Jex — 
“ That, in addition to supplying Messrs. Kelly, the Secretary 
be empowered to send a notice of the Royal College of Vete¬ 
rinary Surgeons to such other publishing offices as he may 
deem necessarv.”—Carried. 
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