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ROYAL COLLEGE OF VETERINARY SURGEONS. 
The Report of the Finance Committee. 
In this report the present liabilities were set down at 
£63 13s. 5\d., which the Committee recommended should 
be discharged. 
The Treasurer’s report showed a balance at banker’s of 
£67 135. 8 id. 
Mr. Naylor moved “ That the report of the Finance Com¬ 
mittee be received and adopted, and that cheques for current 
expenses and examiners’ fees be ordered to be drawn.” 
This was seconded by Mr. Silvester, and agreed to. 
The report of the House Committee was, on the motion of 
Mr. Moon, seconded by Mr. Cartwright, received and adopted. 
Mr. H. T. Batt and Mr. John R. Cox were then appointed 
auditors. 
Mr. Wilkinson, Mr. Fleming, Mr. Lowe, and the Secretary, 
were appointed as a Special Committee to draw up the annual 
report. 
It was next resolved to hold the annual dinner at “ The 
Albion,” Aldersgate Street. 
This concluded the business of the ordinary quarterly 
meeting, and the Council resolved itself into a special meet¬ 
ing to consider the alterations in the by-laws, of which notice 
had been given by Mr. J. C. Broad. 
Special Meeting. 
The proposed alteration in By-law 25, which would have 
the effect of abolishing the Christmas examinations in London, 
was first considered. 
Professor Simonds said that it had been stated that the 
Christmas examinations caused a considerable but unnecessary 
expense to the College. This expense, however, was more 
apparent than real. If a candidate was rejected in April, he 
might again offer himself in December ; but if the Christmas 
examination was abolished, the rejected candidates would 
have to wait until April in the following year, and thus 
greatly extend the April examination, which already was 
considered as occupying too great a period of time. It 
could not matter, so far as the pecuniary interests of 
the College were concerned, whether the rejected pupils 
were re-examined in December or in April. It had been 
said that the Scotch schools had only one examination, 
and therefore the London school ought not to have two. 
The cases, however, were not parallel. The Scotch schools 
commenced their instruction in the month of November, 
and ended before the English school did. The English and 
Scotch schools were therefore not upon a par. The interests 
