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next meeting of the Institute from Put-in-Bay to Milwaukee, and in order to promote fraternal feeling among the members present, hereby respectfully petition your honor to recommend or permit a reconsideration of the action taken during the session.

This petition, gentlemen, I find is signed by seventy-seven members of the Institute, a very large majority of those who have attended the session. Now, so far as a reconsideration of this matter is concerned, the Institute will please remember that the majority voted to hold the next meeting at Put-in-Bay; that a reconsideration of this vote was moved, and was voted down; that a motion to reconsider was again made, and was ruled as out of order by the Chair, and that an appeal from the decision of the Chair was taken, and the majority sustained the Chair. Now in Roberts's Rules of Order, which is considered a standard work upon parliamentary law, it is stated very emphatically that no question can be twice reconsidered. Your President is very sorry indeed that he cannot carry out the prayer of the petition, and permit a reconsideration, but he must be governed by the law, and this Institute must be governed by the law. If we reconsider and reconsider again, no business can be legitimately transacted or carried out, and no legislation can ever be regarded as completed. But the right to petition is a sacred matter. In reading the views of a distinguished writer upon parliamentary law, I find that he says: "The great purpose of all rules and forms is to subserve the will of the assembly rather than to restrain it; to facilitate, and not to obstruct, the expressions of their deliberate sense." It would seem that now, notwithstanding all previous action, seventy-seven members of this Institute are desirous of holding the next meeting in Milwaukee, instead of at Put-in-Bay, and I am willing and anxious to get at the "deliberate sense" of this assembly. It must be plain to you all that a reconsideration of the vote is out of the question, but there may be another way of getting at this matter, by which the sense of the body can be obtained by vote, and the question of place opened up. The Chair has been informed that, in voting on the question of place, some votes were cast for Put-in-Bay by persons who are not members of the Institute, and who had therefore no right to vote. If that is the case, the action of the

Institute might be declared null and void, and new action might be taken. I suggest this as a means of opening up the question in a legitimate manner.

A MEMBER: If illegal votes were cast, they were cast on both sides. It was "six of one and half a dozen of the other." DR. T. P. WILSON: The vote was taken by the members rising, and the Secretary counted. I should think that our Secretary knows who are members and who are not.

DR. T. S. VERDI: It seems to me, Mr. Chairman, that there is a way of getting at this question in a plain and straightforward manner, and without raising the question of unlawful voting, which is not at all likely. There seems to be an opinion that if the vote had been taken on Milwaukee first, the Institute would have voted to go there next year. Now I contend that the Chair was in error in putting the question on Put-in-Bay first. The Secretary informed the President that it was the custom to take a vote on the place first presented; the Chair ruled that Put-in-Bay was first presented, because the Secretary had a written invitation in his hand from that place, and addressed the Chair in order to make it public; but the Chair did not recognize the Secretary, and did recognize Dr. Sherman, who presented the claim of Milwaukee. Now I contend that the Chair erred in presenting Put-in-Bay first, because the fact that the Secretary had the invitation in hand, and stood and addressed the Chair, did not bring the invitation before the house, because the Chair recognized another person who named another place, and the Secretary, courteously giving way to one after another, really introduced the Put-in-Bay matter at the last, or nearly so.

THE PRESIDENT stated that he was perfectly willing to have the matter decided in that way, as he was anxious only to see the members satisfied. If he erred in taking the vote on Put-inBay first, let the Institute so decide and declare the whole action null and void. If, however, the vote should be the other way, he hoped there would be no more of it, as it would certainly look like an attempt on the part of a minority to defeat the will of the majority.

After some further discussion, Dr. Verdi moved that the action. of the Institute in selecting Put-in-Bay as its place of meeting

be declared null and void, in consequence of error on the part of the Chair in presenting that place first instead of Milwaukee.

DR. T. P. WILSON moved to lay the matter on the table.
Not agreed to.

After some further discussion the vote was taken on Dr. Verdi's motion, and it was not agreed to. The vote to meet at Put-inBay in 1878, was therefore declared legal.

T. P. WILSON, M.D.: I move, Mr. President, that the salary voted the Secretary be paid from this time on, commencing July 1st, 1877. The term of office of the officers according to the By-laws, commences January 1st, after their election. Our Secretary would be obliged under this rule to do six months' work without pay, and hence I offer this resolution.

Agreed to unanimously.

DR. CONRAD WESSELHEFT: Mr. President, I wish to say a word. Yesterday Dr. Lewis Sherman was very properly chosen as Chairman of the Bureau of Materia Medica, etc. I learn today that he has very generously resigned in my favor, and that I have been elected. I wish to express my thanks, and to assure you that I shall continue to serve the Institute to the best of my humble ability.

VOTES OF THANKS.

DR. B. W. JAMES: Mr. President, I offer the following resolution:

Resolved, That the thanks of this Institute are due and are hereby tendered to the members of the Chautauqua County Homœopathic Medical Society, and especially to Drs. Cornelius Ormes, of Jamestown, A. S. Couch, of Fredonia, and C. P. Alling, of Dunkirk, for their unremitting kindness and attention to the members of the Institute.

Agreed to.

T. P. WILSON, M.D.: I offer the following resolution :

Resolved, That our thanks are due the press of this neighborhood, and especially the Jamestown Journal, for courtesies extended to this Institute, and to the journal above named for the able manner in which our proceedings have been reported.

Agreed to.

DR. B. W. JAMES: I desire to offer the following resolution:

Resolved, That the thanks of this Institute are eminently due and are hereby tendered our President, E. C. FRANKLIN, M. D., of St. Louis, Mo., for the able, impartial, courteous and dignified manner in which he has presided over the sessions.

The question was taken by the Vice-President, Dr. T. P. WILSON, and was unanimously agreed to, with applause.

DR. THOMAS MOORE, of Philadelphia: I offer the following resolution:

Resolved, That the thanks of this Institute are due and are hereby tendered the officers of the Association for the faithful performance of their duties.

Agreed to.

DR. R. LUDLAM moved a vote of thanks to DR. SELDEN H. TALCOTT, Superintendent of the Middletown (N. Y.) Insane Asylum, for an invitation to visit that institution.

Agreed to.

The Institute then adjourned, to meet at Put-in-Bay on the third Tuesday in June, 1878.

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BRANSTRUP, WILLIAM T., M.D., Vincennes, Ind., (Eclectic Med. Coll., Cincinnati, 1858, and

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Hah. Med. Coll., Chicago, 1877.

Dublin Coll. Phys. and Surgs., 1864.

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COUCH, ASA S., M.D., Fredonia, N. Y.,

COUCH, LEWIS B., M.D., Nyack, N. Y., DAKE, WALTER M., M.D., Jackson, Tenn., DEADY, CHARLES, M.D., New York,

EATON, J. ALBRO, M.D., Brooklyn, N. Y., EASTMAN, FRANK, M.D., Nashville, Tenn., ELY, CHARLES T., M.D., New York,

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FRANTZ, JACOB T., M.D., Wilmington, Del.,
GEPPERT, JAMES P., M.D., Cincinnati, O.,
GRIVEAUD, EMANUEL A., M.D., St. Louis, Mo.,
HOLDEN, AUSTIN W., M.D., New York,
LEWIS, F. PARK, M.D., Buffalo, N. Y.,
LYON, OLIVER J., M.D., Harrison, O., .
MANSFIELD, CHARLES J., M.D., Meriden, Conn.,
MARTIN, ARELLO S., M.D., Randolph, N. Y.,
MURPHY, EDMUND A., M.D., New Orleans, La.,
OKIE, WILLIAM T., M.D., Washington, D. C.,
PAINE, NATHANIEL E., M.D., Albany, N. Y.,
PENFIELD, SOPHIA, M.D., Danbury, Conn.,
POND, JOHN N., M.D., Meadville, Pa., .
QUIRELL, CLAUDIUS A., M.D., Cincinnati, O., .

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Hom. Med. Coll. of Peuna., 1855.

N. Y. Hom. Med. Coll., 1874.

Hah. Med. Coll., Philadelphia, 1877.

N. Y. Hom. Med. Coll., 1876.

Pulte Med. Coll., Cincinnati, O., 1876.

Hah. Med. Coll, Philadelphia, 1877.

N. Y. Hom. Med. Coll. 1877.

Hah. Med. Coll., Philadelphia, 1876.

Pulte Med. Coll., Cincinnati, O., 1877.

St. Louis Coll. Hom. Phys.and Surgs., 1871. Albany Med. Coll., 1847.

Pulte Med. Coll., Cincinnati, O., 1876.

Pulte Med. Coll., Cincinnati, O., 1875.

N. Y. Hom. Med. Coll., 1869.

Cleveland Med. Coll., 1870.

Hom. Med. Coll. of Missouri, 1866.

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Pulte Med. Coll., Cincinnati, O., 1877.

Bellevue Hosp. Med. Coll., N. Y., 1867.
Hah. Med. Coll., Chicago, 1876.
Cleveland Med. Coll., 1863.
Hah. Med. Coll., Philadelphia, 1865.
Hah. Med. Coll., Chicago, 1873.
University State of New York, 1875.

N. Y. Hom. Med. Coll., 1875.

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