SOCIETY MEETINGS. 
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vised Laws is hereby amended by inserting after the word 
“ agriculture,” in the third line, the words :—the chief of the 
cattle bureau of the state board of agriculture:—so as to read : 
Section i. The governor and lieutenant-governor, ex officiis, 
the Secretary of the Commonwealth, the president of the agri¬ 
cultural college, the secretary of the state board of agriculture, 
the chief of the cattle bureau of the state board of agriculture, 
one person appointed from and by the Massachusetts society for 
promoting agriculture, one person appointed from and by each 
agricultural society which receives an annual‘bounty from the 
Commonwealth, and three other persons appointed by the gov¬ 
ernor, with the advice and consent of the council, shall consti¬ 
tute the state board of agriculture. 
Section 5. So much of section three of this act as author¬ 
izes the appointment of said chief of the cattle bureau shall take 
effect thirty days after the passage of the act, and the remainder 
of the act shall take effect as soon as the said chief has been ap¬ 
pointed and qualified. 
SOCIETY MEETINGS. 
CHICAGO VETERINARY ASSOCIATION. 
The meeting was called to order by Dr. Allen, Third Vice- 
President of the society, at 8.40 p. m., Jan. 13, at McKillip Vet¬ 
erinary College, 1639 Wabash Ave. 
The minutes of the previous meeting were read and ap¬ 
proved. The Secretary reported that invitations had been for¬ 
warded to officers of the A. V. M. A., but that thus far no reply 
had been received. 
The Treasurer, Dr. Walker, reported the amount of money 
in the treasury. 
Under reports of committees, each committee was called 
upon respectively. The Committee on Legislation had no re¬ 
port to make, but considerable interest was manifested by the 
members of the society relating to amendments of the State 
law, which would strengthen it and make it more effective. Dr. 
Robertson advised the committee to be more active in their en¬ 
deavors to improve the law, stating that the Legislature would 
meet before the committee had any demands to make. The gen¬ 
eral sentiment of the society was in favor of having the com¬ 
mittee learn what the profession most needed and to so frame 
these needs in the form of amendments, to be presented to the 
next Legislature. 
