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Clause 4 reserves the exclusive right to veterinary surgeons 
to be employed by the courts of justice, and also by the civil 
administration and military authorities in all cases relating to 
the medical treatment of domestic animals, and likewise in 
contagious and epizootic affections. Clause 5 enacts that 
the apothecary shall deliver the necessary medicines on the 
prescription in writing of a marechal-expert or a certified 
practitioner. Clause 6 is to authorise veterinary surgeons 
to keep their own pharmacy, without, however, to dispensing 
of any medicines except for those animals under their special 
care and treatment. Clause 7. Veterinary surgeons with 
diplomas from foreign schools are not allowed to practise 
without the authorisation of the Minister of Agriculture. 
Clause 8 settles the penalties to be inflicted on all contra¬ 
vention of the law; it is to consist of a fine, and, in case of 
repetition, of increased fine and imprisonment. Clause 9 
provides for the poorer districts, where a veterinary surgeon 
would not otherwise reside, an indemnity of a certain amount, 
to be paid by the government, on condition that the cattle of 
the poor shall be treated gratis. Clause 10 creates a veteri¬ 
nary council in each department, the office of which is to 
inform the administration on all questions relating to the 
multiplication of domestic animals, sanitary police, &c. 
Clauses 11, 12, 13, and 14, are for the regulation of the 
departmental council. 
Belgium, for more than ten years, has possessed a law 
protecting the practice of veterinary medicine. Holland has 
destroyed the leprosy of empiricism. The King of Saxony has 
decreed that only veterinary surgeons who have obtained their 
diplomas shall have the right to treat diseased animals. The 
government of Bavaria has promulgated a law, that the 
exercise of the veterinary art is only permitted to those who 
have obtained a diploma. The Duke of Baden has issued a 
decree against empirics, punishing them with fine and im¬ 
prisonment. Nearty all the states of the Confederation of 
Germany have laws against empiricism. 
THE ANNUAL DINNER OF THE PROFESSION. 
This convivial reunion took place in the evening of the 
6th ult., at the Freemasons* Tavern, Great Queen Street. 
It was our intention to have given a detailed account of 
the meeting, but the great demands which are made upon 
our space in the present number have prevented this being 
