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ment of five dollars per capita for the purpose of defraying ex¬ 
penses of a delegate to the next meeting of the U. S. V. M. A., 
also that the Secretary be instructed to collect same and at the 
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same time notify the members that at next quarterly meeting 
held in June a delegate would be elected. The motion was duly 
seconded and after considerable favorable discussion it was 
eventually adopted unanimously. 
Prof. W. F. Skaife on behalf of the Faculty of the California 
Veterinary College, extended to the association an invitation 
to hold their meeting in the college building when they again 
met in San Francisco. 
The following resolution was presented and adopted unani¬ 
mously : 
Whereas, It is a notorious fact that during the twenty- 
ninth, thirtieth and thirty-first sessions of the State Legislature, 
one Thomas Carpenter, a veterinary surgeon and a resident of 
Oakland, did use all means in his power to defeat any and all 
movements toward the advancement of the veterinary profession 
in the State, and 
Whereas, This action on the part of the said Thomas Car¬ 
penter was wholly due to the jealous and abject sentiment 
which rankled in his breast toward the members of the Califor¬ 
nia State Veterinary Medical Association and other members 
of the veterinary profession in the State, who have always and 
are yet struggling to gain public recognition as practical sani¬ 
tarians and as scientific gentlemen, and 
Whereas, The veterinary profession in the State of Cali¬ 
fornia has suffered through the actions and machinations of the 
said Thomas Carpenter, and 
Whereas, The said Thomas Carpenter is at the present 
time endeavoring to gain the position of Meat and Milk In¬ 
spector to the Board of Health of the City of Oakland, there¬ 
fore be it 
Resolved , That we the members of the California State 
Veterinary Medical Association do hereby protest against the 
appointment of the said Thomas Carpenter to the office of Meat 
