431 ROYAL COLLEGE OF VETERINARY SURGEONS. 
Mr. R. Pritchard said that on looking at the pins which 
were in the door, it appeared that they had only been soldered 
to the plate, so that the thieves had not much trouble in 
taking it off. 
The Secretary stated that if it met with the views of the 
Council that a new plate should be ordered, he would take 
care that it should be rivetted through the door. 
Mr. J. C. Broad proposed that a new plate should be 
ordered. 
Mr. Goiving thought it better to wait for the decision of 
the magistrate to-morrow, to see if the delinquents would 
confess what they had done with the plate. He should 
propose as an amendment that the matter be left to the 
house committee. 
(The amendment was agreed to.) 
The Secretary said the next subject was the report of the 
Report Committee. He might inform the Council that the 
report had been submitted to Mr. Fleming and Mr. Lowe. 
Mr. Wilkinson was so much engaged that he was not able to 
look over it. It was not returned until 10 o’clock the 
previous night. 
(The Twenty-ninth Annual Report of the Council was 
then read.) 
Mr. Harpley proposed that the report be received. 
Mr. R. Pritchard seconded the motion. 
(Carried unanimously.) 
The Secretary then read the report paragraph by para¬ 
graph for any discussion which might arise upon it. 
The motion that the Report be adopted and printed was 
then put to the Council, and carried unanimously. 
The Auditors’ Report was read and approved of. 
Mr. Goioing asked if he should be in order in offering some 
remarks upon the imperfect manner of balloting at the Annual 
Meetings. He did not think it gave gentlemen a fair chance 
who had proposed candidates as members of the Council. 
He alluded more particularly to the balloting papers. They 
were issued before the names of those gentlemen had been 
read over who had been proposed by any of the members 
present, and so many of them were hastily filled up without 
there being an opportunity of adding the name of any person 
for whom the member would have been otherwise desirous of 
voting. He thought the papers ought to be retained by the 
Secretary until the names of all the individuals nominated 
had been clearly read out to the meeting. 
The Secretary said he thought there was a by-law with 
reference to that matter. It was as follows Ten days 
