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defects and diseases which ought to be severely dealt- with^ 
and recommended that the matter be discussed and passed upon 
by the entire society at our regular meetings, and further that a 
stenographer should be engaged to report the discussion with 
a view to publication in the veterinary journals, the said report 
first to be edited by our Committee on Literature and Publica¬ 
tion. The recommendation was well received by the members, 
and resulted in the following motion of Dr. GysiPs:^ “That 
members be appointed at each meeting to lead the discussion 
on one or more of these abnormal conditions enumerated in this 
list, and that a stenographer be hired to report such discussions 
with a view to their publication, after being edited by our Com¬ 
mittee on Literature and Publication.” 
The Board of Censors had no report to make, but their func¬ 
tion was called into action in the following manner. On 
October 14th, the following motion was carried hy the meet¬ 
ing : “ That any of our members who are assistants of the 
present State Veterinarian (the same being an empiric and 
therefore objectionable) be invited to appear before our Board 
of Censors at our next regular meeting, and show^ cause why 
their resignations should not be called for by the Society.” Two 
of our members being in that position, were so notified, and 
neither of them appeared on November 4^^^5 rneeting, as 
requested, nor made any communication on the subject to the 
Secretary. Dr. Jos. Hughes, as Chairman of this Board, stated 
that the appointed time for these gentlemen making their de¬ 
fense had passed and that expulsion from the Society was in 
order. Still, as one of the gentlemen was present, a motion 
to reopen the subject ought to be in order. This was allowed 
by the chair, the motion was put and carried, and the member 
in question invited to give his reasons for continuing to hold 
his commission. This member stated that he had been many 
years in that service and that it did not matter to him who was 
State Veterinarian, that friends whom he had consulted had 
advised him not to give up his position, that the blunder was on 
the part of the Governor in appointing such an officer, and that 
he wished to retain his membership, but had resolved to hold his 
commission. Some of the members who spoke inclined to the 
opinion that he should be allowed to retain both membership 
and commission. Dr. Hughes, practically aloue, stood firmly 
by his initial statement, and asserted that expulsion was the 
only logical course for the society to take. Upon motion, all 
action in the matter was postponed until next meeting. 
