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aud measures of such country, regulations more general in their 
application, and which, within certain limitations, shall permit the 
solution of embarrassing questions by removing them beyond the 
restrictions of circumscribed territorial rules ; to the consideration 
of questions of veterinary sanitary police, and of the powers and 
duties of practitioners; and of protecting both human subjects 
and domestic animals, by rational measures founded upon positive 
scientific data, from certain morbid influences to which all are ex¬ 
posed. 
Composition. 
Sec. 2. —The Congress shall be*composed of ( a ) honorary and 
(b) active members. 
Sec. 3. Honorary membership may be conferred by the Com¬ 
mission of Organization, or by the Executive Committee of the 
Congress, upon persons who have rendered important services to 
the cause of veterinary medicine by their contributions to the sci¬ 
entific institutes of the profession, or other meritorious labors. 
Sec. 4. The active membership shall be composed of (a) mem¬ 
bers of the faculty of a veterinary institution ; ( b ) practitioners of 
veterinary medicine; and ( c ) special delegates representing either 
class. 
Organization—Officers. 
Sec. 5. The first business following the opening of'the Con¬ 
gress shall be the election of officers, who shall constitute an Ex¬ 
ecutive Committee, to., consist of (a)- Honorary Presidents; (b) 
President; ( c ) Vice Presidents; ( cl ) General Secretary ; and ( e ) 
five Adjupct Secretaries. 
Sec. 6. The decisions of the Executive Committee shall be 
subject to acceptance by a majority of members present. 
Sec. 7. The discussions of the meeting of 1883 shall include 
the following subjects : 1. Veterinary education. 2* Organiza¬ 
tion of the veterinary service. 3. Diagnosis and preventive meas¬ 
ures in contagious pleuro-pneumonia. 4. Heredity and contagi¬ 
ousness of phthisis pultnonalis, and means of preventing the effects 
following the use of the flesh and milk of animals therewith affect¬ 
ed. 5. Of the right of veterinarians to sell drugs. 
