EXAMINATION FOR DIPLOMA. 
749 
without any assistance whatever from books, notes, or memoranda, from 
each other, from ourselves, or any other person. We declare that not more 
than three hours were occupied in writing those papers ; tiiat they were 
written at the time appointed for them in tlie Time-Table issued by the 
Hoyal College of Veterinary Surgeons, and were sealed by us at the con¬ 
clusion of the sitting; that no Candidate was allowed to resume or com¬ 
plete a paper after having left the Examination lloom in the course of the 
time assigned to that paper. We further declare that the paper of ques¬ 
tions given to each Candidate was taken from the envelope in which it was 
transmitted from the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, the seal of the 
envelope being broken in our presence and that of the assembled Candidates 
at the commencement of the time appointed for the paper in the Time- 
Table issued by the College ; and, finally, we declare that we were present 
uninterruptedly during the whole of the time respectively specified after 
our names. 
ame, Designation, and Address'^ 
A. B., 
&c., from 
to 
of Members of Local Board 
C. D., 
&c., from 
to 
who were present during the 
^E. E., 
&c., from 
to 
working of the papers referred 
G. H., 
&c., from 
to 
to in the above declaration.* j 
I. K., 
B-on. Sec., 
from 
to 
One member must have 
been 
present 
during 
the whole 
sitting, and one other member in relays of not less than one 
and a half hours. 
N.B.—The members of the local hoards will appreciate the 
importance of this declaration. To sign it without a cer¬ 
tainty of its truth would be to attempt a fraud on the Royal 
College of Veterinary Surgeons, on the examiners, on the 
candidates, and the public at large. The Council is confi¬ 
dent that the local boards will not only act with perfect good 
faith, but will use such scrupulous care and caution that 
errors in their declarations will be impossible. 
Should some such propositions as these be adopted by the 
Council, enough, I trust, has been described in order to show 
the working of the system, which is capable of extension to 
another period, viz. the second session of the pupil’s resi¬ 
dence at college, or sixteen months from the date of 
admission. 
But the final examination—partly oral, written, and prac¬ 
tical—must be held by the general board of examiners at the 
end of the third session of the student’s residence, or twenty- 
four months from the date of admission, at such times and 
places as may be determined upon by the Council. No 
candidate, however, to be admitted to this examination 
* This declaration must be signed, in every case, by at least two mem¬ 
bers of the Local Board; and when more than twenty Candidates are ex¬ 
amined in any one sitting, by at least three such members. It must not in 
any case be signed by a member of the Board from whom any Candidate has 
received instruction on the subject of the paper to which it refers. 
