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Board as to the intent of the act so far as placing on the seal 
of the State, and the Board was informed that all licenses 
would have to be returned to the Department of State at 
Harrisburg to receive there the seal of the Commonwealth. 
It was also suggested to the Committee on Rules and By- 
Laws that the officers be elected annually. It was also decided 
that two regular meetings be held each year in the latter part 
of April and June, with such other meetings as the business 
of the Board might demand. 
The subjects for examination were assigned as follows : 
Anatomy, Veterinary Diagnosis and Zootechnics, Dr. S. J. J. 
Harger; Practice of Medicine, Dr. W. Horace Hoskins; 
Obstetrics, Meat and Milk Inspection and Sanitary Medicine, 
Dr. J. W. Sallade; Surgery and Physiology, Dr. Harry 
Walters; Pathology, Chemistry, Materia Medica and Thera¬ 
peutics, Dr. J. C. McNeil. The age of the applicants, their 
normal character and genuineness of their diplomas, were 
placed in the hands of the Secretary. 
It was also decided that a list of fifteen questions on each 
branch would be submitted to the applicants, from which they 
should select ten for answering. Applicant shall draw one 
from a box of cards with numbers upon them’, upon which he 
shall write his name and place the same in a sealed envelope, 
and shall designate his answers to the questions on the various 
subjects by the same number. This card shall be placed in 
the keeping of the Secretary, It was decided that a general 
average of 65 per cent, shall have been attained, and that a 
minimum of 50 per cent, must be attained on each branch. 
It was moved and seconded that the April meeting shall 
convene for two days. It was decided that the first regular 
meeting of the Board for examination of applicants for license 
shall convene on the third Mondav in December at the office 
of the Secretary, 3452 Ludlow Street, Phildelphia, Pa., and 
that notices of the same be sent to the veterinary journals of 
North America. 
The Chairman then appointed the following Committee on 
Rules and By-Laws : Dr. W. Horace Hoskins, Chairman ; Dr. 
J. W. Sallade and Dr. Harry Walters, after which a motion to 
adjourn prevailed. W. Horace Hoskins, Secretary . 
