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NEWS AND ITEMS. 
Committees of the New York State Veterinary 
Medicae Society. —The President, Dr. Nelson P. Hinkley, 
has appointed the following committees for the ensuing year: 
Executive Committee—Nelson P. Hinkley (chairman), 395 
Ellicott Street, Buffalo, N. Y. ; R. S. Huidekoper, 154 East 
57th Street, New York ; C. D. Morris, Pawling. Legislative 
Committee—Win. H. Kelly (chairman), 195 Western Avenue, 
Albany; James Law, Ithaca; C. D. Morris, Arthur O’Shea, 117 
West 46th Street, New York ; Nelson P. Hinkley. By-Laws 
Committee—C. D. Morris (chairman), R. S. Huidekoper, John 
Wende, 1595 Main Street, Buffalo. Committee of Arrange¬ 
ments—C. D. Morris (chairman), M. J. Henderson, Syracuse ; 
Arthur Baker, Oneonto ; W. L. Baker, Cortland ; E. D. Hayden, 
Syracuse. The Board of Censors are the same as last year, who 
were elected in 1895 to serve for two years, and is as follows: 
W. L. Baker (chairman), John Wende, Arthur O’Shea, James 
Law, R. S. Huidekoper. 
Jury Duty in New York and Kings Counties. —As our 
readers probably know, the Judiciary Committee of the Veter¬ 
inary Medical Association of New York County succeeded in 
having a law enacted a few years ago exempting all (?) veteri¬ 
narians in New York State from jury duty ; but when the statute 
appeared it was found that New York and Kings counties had 
been excepted. The father of the bill, Dr. Arthur O’Shea, has 
worked very hard ever since to right the injustice to the metro¬ 
politan members of the profession. It is very difficult to en¬ 
gineer exemption bills through a legislative body, but if per¬ 
severance counts for anything, the Doctor will yet make his 
fellow practitioners happy. On February 9th we note that 
Senator Ellsworth introduced a bill “extending to surgeon 
dentists the exemption from service as trial jurors, that is ac¬ 
corded to them in New York and Kings counties, and also ex¬ 
tending such exemption to physicians, pharmacists, and veteri- 
naries throughout the State.” 
Castrated the Wrong Cout—Fined $50. —The follow¬ 
ing peculiar circumstance is copied from the Boston Traveller , 
of Feb. nth, and it appears from the evidence that the mistake 
of Dr. Lee was most natural and the sentence of the court most 
unjust. Any veterinarian is liable, though not likely, to have 
the same accident happen to him, and one would think that the 
real culprit was the man who failed to give sufficiently explicit 
instructions to his veterinarian as to the location of his stable 
