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His Grace then asked what sum in the way of grant the Royal College 
of Veterinary Surgeons would require. The answer given was to the 
effect that the purchase of ground and erection of suitable premises 
would cost about £6000; that nearly £2000 had been subscribed; that 
£2000 might be borrowed on the security of site and buildings if the 
Government would give £2000; that the interest of the borrowed money 
would be about equal to the rent at present paid for the inadequate 
premises in Red Lion Square. 
The deputation, having thanked His Grace for the kindness with which 
he had listened to them, withdrew. 
The Committee thought that the application might be renewed with 
advantage about the time when the estimates for the year were being 
prepared. 
The next important subject brought under the consideration of 
the Council was the appointment of a Committee to confer with 
the Highland and Agricultural Society, with a view to the discon¬ 
tinuance of their examinations, and to adjust terms of agreement. 
The Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland proposed the 
following arrangement for admitting the Society’s Certificate-holders 
as Members of the Royal College, and so terminating the examinations of 
that Society : 
1. The Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons to hold the Examination 
of the Highland and Agricultural Society as sufficient, and to admit their 
Certificate-holders without further examination. 
2. All the Highland and Agricultural Society’s Certificate-holders 
passed before 1871 to be admitted Members of the Royal College free; 
those passed in 1872 to pay one guinea; and those passed in the 
following years, to 1878, to pay a sliding scale from two to seven guineas. 
3. Those students now enrolled at any of the Teaching Schools who 
may pass for the Society’s Certificate, to be enrolled Members of the 
Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons on payment of seven guineas. 
4. That the Society’s Examinations shall terminate in three years from 
the time this arrangement is adopted. 
5. The Highland and Agricultural Society agree to the above arrange¬ 
ments on the understanding that the Annual Meeting of the Royal 
College of Veterinary Surgeons shall be held in Edinburgh once in three 
years; and, 
6. That if at any time the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons 
should apply for a penal clause against persons practising the veterinary 
art without a legal qualification, the holders of the Highland and 
Agricultural Society’s Certificate shall be exempted from such penal 
clauses. 
The Committee having received these proposals, recommended for the 
acceptance of the Council of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons 
Clause 1. Also Clause 2, except the word “free” in line 5. As the 
admission of the holders of the Highland and Agricultural Society’s cer¬ 
tificate without examination could not be effected under the present 
Charter; and as the application for and obtaining a new Charter would 
involve considerable expense, the Committee considered that each 
member admitted should pay a registration fee of £l Is., being the 
amount now paid for registration by those who pass the examination of 
the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons. 
The acceptance of Clauses 3, 4, and 5, was also advised. 
The Committee saw great reason to object to Clause 6, and strongly 
recommended that it should not be agreed to, as it would create a body 
with legal rights outside the body corporate. 
