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Mr. Robinson inquired if by this omission this meeting was not 
valid to entertain the question. 
Mr. Arthur Cherry replied, certainly not; the Charter must be 
complied with. 
Mr. Robinson then the meeting must break up, and notice of 
the proposed alterations must be suspended for three months; or 
that this meeting might now enter into the consideration of the 
question before them, and then adjourn from the last meeting for 
three months. 
Mr. Arthur Cherry replied, strongly repudiating such a course, 
as being totally impracticable, in direct variance with the clause in 
the Charter, and therefore invalid. There was only one way in 
which the difficulty was to be overcome, and at the same time 
render the business of the meeting perfectly legal; and he should 
put a motion for this purpose, namely, “ That the Council take 
into consideration the propriety of revision of the by-lawsother 
motions would follow upon this. 
Mr. Wilkinson considered that the meeting could not entertain 
the original notice upon which the meeting was commenced. 
Professor Spooner took the same view. 
Mr. Arthur Cherry pressed his motion : it was the only way in 
which the question could come before the Council on that occasion. 
The Secretary said, that whatever omission or error in the notice 
there might be, he must bear the blame of it. 
A general discussion and explanation ensued, and the motion 
being put, it was carried. 
The Secretary , as the mover of the original notice, was then 
asked what he had to offer in explanation : he replied, that he had 
nothing to say. 
Mr. W. C. Spooner said that the country practitioners with 
whom he had conversed wished to see an amicable arrangement 
of differences with the schools, and thought that there ought to be 
more country practitioners on the Council. 
Mr. Henderson replied, that when there were such gentlemen as 
Mr. Peech, Mr. Burley, Mr. Pritchard, Mr. Godwin, Mr. Silvester, 
coming some as far as 200 miles to attend the meetings of Council, 
it was a refutation to the idea that country practitioners were not 
on the Council. 
Mr. Arthur Cherry. —It often happened that a considerable por¬ 
tion of the Board present were country members. 
Professor Spooner , after a few desultory remarks, read legal 
opinions from Sir Fitzroy Kelly, Messrs. Peacock and Matthew 
Hill, regarding certain portions of the by-laws touching their 
legality. 
Mr. Arthur Cherry replied, that all the opinions given by those 
legal gentlemen and then read, amounted to little or nothing; they 
