SOCIETY MEETINGS. 
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offered the following amendment to the Constitution and By- 
Laws : 
AMENDMENT TO ARTICLE Y, SECTION 2 . 
That the Recording Secretary shall keep an accurate record of the attendance of 
the members at all regular meetings, and after three successive absences the mem¬ 
ber shall be sent a copy of Article V, Section 2 , and informed that the above section 
will be strictly enforced. 
Motion seconded and carried. 
A motion was made by Dr. J. R. Hart that all members 
in arrears for one or more years shall be notified that the 
claim against him will be placed in the hands of a collection 
agency, and if not paid within sixty days the Corresponding 
Secretary shall see that suit is entered and carried out. Cai- 
ried. 
Dr. Thomas B. Raynor made a motion that a committee 
be appointed to draft resolutions and forward the same to 
Mr. Wm. H. Woodring, of Northampton Co., Pa., to show 
our appreciation of his efficient, earnest and untiring seivice 
during the past winter in behalf of this Association by assist¬ 
ing the Legislative Committee in their efforts to secure the 
passage of the two bills presented by them to the last Legis¬ 
lature, and which are now laws of this State. Cairied. The 
President appointed Drs. T. B. Raynor, Hart and Hoskins. 
A motion was then made by Dr. Hoskins that a delegation 
be appointed to attend the United States Veterinary Medical 
Association at Des Moines, la., on September ioth, iith and 
12th, and the President appointed Drs. T. B. Raynor, Hart, 
J. B. Raynor, Helmer and Foelker. 
The report of the Legislative Committee was next in 
order, and Dr. Hoskins, Chairman, reported as follows. 
REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON LEGISLATION. 
Mr President and Gentlemen While I strongly importuned our President to 
place some other member at the head of the Legislative Committee for the present 
year, it was his wish that I should remain in the direction of this work until the leg¬ 
islation under consideration during the past two years should become fixed laws in 
our Commonwealth, and the promise that there was little left to be done led to my 
acceptance of this post of duty. , 
When we met in March last, at Philadelphia, the two acts which we had pressed 
so hard for consideration were in the last steps of their accomplishment, and as you 
all know they were finally adopted by both branches of the Legislature and sub¬ 
sequently received the Governor’s approval, and are now fixed statutes of the State, 
but still in a very unsatisfactory and uncertain condition. 
