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inch from the edge of the ring, and brought the needle to the surface; closed the 
ring by tieing; then made four sutures in each ring in the same manner. The 
colt made a good recovery. The reason of my accepting this method, was 
because it prevented the air from passing into the abdominal cavity. 
The paper proved very interesting and resulted in a very general discussion, 
during which Dr. R. W. Finlay expressed his pleasure at having heard the paper 
read; he considered it placed at our service a statement of the different plans, 
and the essayist’s own one was certainly unique, and considerabie credit was due 
him. The operation was one that might be termed a covered one, and the only 
danger, he thought, likely to result, was septicemia following the large slough. 
The essayist replied that he had not had any trouble in that way; he had 
treated many more cases than those reported, with equally good results, and in 
answer to the Chair, said the clamp simply held the skin. 
Dr. J. S. Cattanach said he had used a steel clamp with hinge and screw, 
with success. He favored the essayist’s treatment, as did most of those present. 
The discussion closed with a vote of thanks to Dr. Faust for his paper. 
Dr. Pendry’s notice of alteration of By-Laws was then taken up, who ex¬ 
plained that the first alteration was to change the annual meeting from March to 
December, and his reason for wishing to do so, was that the act, under which the 
Society was incorporated, called for a yearly statement to be filed with the Clerk 
of the County, in the month of December ; if the change was made, a copy of the 
annual report could be filed. 
A motion was made and carried to the effect that the alteration be made, to 
take effect after the next annual meeting. 
The motion to alter Section 1 of Article IV, so that all newly elected mem¬ 
bers should be residents of the State, after much discussion and opposition, was 
voted down; also the one obliging members to pay their initiation fee before 
being placed on the roll; it being held, that under the present reading of the 
By-Laws, no one became a member until he had done so. 
The proposed alteration, making the annual dues two dollars instead of one, 
was unanimously adopted. 
Dr. Pendry, chairman of Committee on Legislation, reported that the bill, 
as adopted by the Society, had been introduced into the Assembly and referred 
to the Committee on Public Health. He had found that another bill, endorsed 
by the Rochester Veterinary Medical Association, had been introduced a week 
previous, which also had been referred to the same committee. In response to a 
notification, he had appeared before that committee at Albany. He need hardly 
say that he had opposed the Rochester bill, which called for an Examining 
Board to examine all those now in practice, whether graduates or not. It was 
not on that account that he had done so, as that was about the only good point in 
the bill; but because he was sure it would never see daylight outside of the com¬ 
mittee room, an opinion that he was upheld in by many members of the Legis¬ 
lature ; and so he had viewed it as a stumbling block to the other one. He had, 
therefore, opposed it and pleaded for the one endorsed by this Society; and he 
was pleased to say that the committee had viewed his arguments so much more 
favorably than those of the Hon. Chas. R. Pratt, the father of the other bill, that 
they had reported favorably the Society’s bill, with a slight amendment, so that 
