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THE VETERINARIAN, FEBRUARY 1, 1849. 
Ne quid falsi dicere audeat, ne quid veri non audeat.—CiCEno. 
It will be seen by our Council Report, that a “ revision of the 
by-laws,” for the second time, is about to take place. That laws 
brought into existence b)^ the Charter should within so short an 
interval have called twice for “ revision,” alias correction, would 
seem, prima facie , either to cast some reflection upon those who 
made them, or else to argue that the circumstances under which they 
were made had become so altered that revision was absolutely 
necessary'. We believe the latter to be the case. We are not 
conscious of any want of care and ability on the part of those who 
concocted the present code of by-laws; neither are we aware that 
any more able and pains-taking power is to be found in the Com¬ 
mittee appointed to “ revise ” that code. But we feel that cir¬ 
cumstances are not altogether what they were. We feel that 
matters have come to light which were not in existence in the 
former Committee’s time; and, moreover, we feel that the working 
of the present laws has, as might have been expected, demon¬ 
strated their efficiency in some respects, while, in others, they have 
been found weak or wanting. And so—looking too at the present 
aspect of professional affairs—we are not content merely, but grati¬ 
fied, that “ revision” should be the order of the day. And there¬ 
fore we shall give the Committee, in so far as in us lies, our very 
humble and undisguised support in the work. 
Preliminarily, there appears in our mind this very important 
difference between making by-laws in times present and in times 
past. In times past these laws had little consideration given to 
them save at the hands of those immediately concerned in framing 
them: in times present there is no earthly reason whatever why 
the entire veterinary profession should not be made a party to their 
constitution. Let every individual member of the profession, say 
we, take the by-laws in his hand*, and attentively peruse and 
consider them; and should out of this study any amendment or altera¬ 
tion suggest itself to his mind, let him forthwith communicate the 
same to the Committee; or, if he likes, to us: we promise him 
his suggestions shall not go unheeded. Once for all, then, we 
invite the members of the veterinary profession—and let them not 
say afterwards they were not warned—to take this silent part in 
the interesting discussion that is on the eve of being set on foot 
into the present by-laws; and we implore them, if grievance or 
complaint or improvement they believe to have conceived in their 
* He will find them, as revised by the Council, in The Veterinarian 
for 1847, vol. xx, p. 311. 
