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in laying down a curriculum of study for the Candidates about to 
appear before their Board. It is contended, on the one hand, that 
the Council have the power not only to ascertain the amount of 
information possessed by the candidate, but also to prescribe the 
manner and time in which that information shall have been ob¬ 
tained. On the other hand, it is insisted that, while the Council 
have the power of ascertaining in the fullest and most satisfac¬ 
tory manner the due qualification of the student, they have no 
right whatever to inquire how those qualifications have been ob¬ 
tained, beyond the mere fact of his having been educated at 
some one of the recognized schools. That the Members of your 
Council should entertain different views on this subject will ap¬ 
pear the less extraordinary when you are informed that among 
some of the most eminent members of the legal profession 
equally different opinions are held. To solve this difficulty as 
far as possible, a Committee was appointed to reconsider the 
bye-laws, and to prepare such a code as would appear to meet 
the objections applicable to those at present existing. This has 
been done, and the new code, with the amendments thereon, are 
being suspended in the usual meeting-place of the Council, at 
the Freemasons 5 Tavern, for three months, as required by the 
Charter, before it can be finally considered. In the mean time 
steps will be taken to ascertain, on the best possible authority, 
on which of the two preceding views it will be desirable to act. 
The Council have to lament the loss, during the last year, of 
one of the most zealous and respected members of the profes¬ 
sion—Mr. Mayer. As a Member of the Council he always bore 
his full proportion of the duties devolving on him; and as a 
Member of the Board of Examiners his services were most 
valuable, from his having undertaken the onerous department of 
cattle pathology, a subject on which he was most completely 
au fait. The latter appointment has been most satisfactorily 
placed in the hands of Mr. Robinson, of Tamworth, and the 
former you have this day replaced. 
Your late solicitor, Mr. Walter, having become more parti¬ 
cularly engaged in the affairs of his locality, Kingston, and 
its distance preventing his being so easy of access as occasionally 
is desirable, has resigned his appointment; and the gentleman 
selected to replace him is Mr. S. Garrard, of Suffolk Street, Pall 
Mall, who has already evinced the interest he feels in our affairs 
by the valuable assistance he has afforded us in the contem¬ 
plated revision of the bye-laws. 
The number of members admitted during the last year is 27 ; 
and this would have been considerably greater had not several 
