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ROYAL COLLEGE OE VETERINARY SURGEONS. 
other evidence as to his having been educated at one of the 
schools. Had that law been carried into effect up to the pre¬ 
sent time, or had it for some reason been omitted ? A gentle¬ 
man came up for a fifth time to the Examination in May. 
The Governors of the Royal Veterinary College in July, 
1871, passed a resolution that after three periods they would 
not give any further certificates. He wished to know whether 
the candidate referred to presented a paper of any kind from 
the principal of the Veterinary School in London, to the effect 
that he had been educated at that College. 
The Secretary reported, that at the May examinations 
one student came up for the fourth time, and one for the fifth, 
and they were examined on the authority of the certificate 
received from the Royal Veterinary College on April 8th, 
1872, which stated :—“ I certify that the following students 
have been duly educated at the Institution, and that they are 
therefore qualified to present themselves as candidates for 
examination for the diploma of the Royal College of Veterinary 
Surgeons,” and it then stated that these gentlemen had been 
previously examined. That was signed by the Principal of 
the Royal Veterinary College. 
Professor Simonds said all he did was to attest that these 
gentlemen had been previously examined. 
Professor Williams thought it was giving the Principal of 
a College a great deal too much power to allow him to give a 
certificate of a kind which would enable a student to undergo an 
examination. The Board of Examiners ought to satisfy them¬ 
selves that the pupil had studied the various subjects on which he 
was to be examined. The certificates should be signed by every 
Professor in the College. This was one of the things which 
the Committee just appointed would have to inquire into. 
Professor Simonds denied that the governing power of an 
institution could not make its own rules and regulations, per¬ 
fectly independent of the Council. It would be found that 
the Governors of the Royal Veterinary College would make 
just such rules and regulations for the institution, and for the 
instruction of the pupils, as they saw fit. As to the certificate 
alluded to, he would merely observe that when he signed that 
document he was only in office pro tern. The appointment of 
the Principal had not then absolutely taken place. He there¬ 
fore had no power to alter any rule or regulation of the Col¬ 
lege, and, acting upon precedent, adopted by his late lamented 
colleague, Professor Spooner, he signed the document put 
before him, to the effect that certain gentlemen had been 
educated at the Royal Veterinary College. With reference 
to the matter as to what power should be vested in a Prin- 
