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Statute LXIX. The Senate is of opinion that there can be no limitation as to the time at which necessary meetings of the Senate shall be held, & that it would [Date reviewed J.C.M.] be most injurious to the interests of the College, that the time should be limited to the College Session, and that if any member, when the meeting is called, is absent in another part of the Province, he can be notified by Circular, when all will be on the same footing in this respect.

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Adoption of the
First Clause of
the Report
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Resolved, — that the First Clause of the Report relative to Statute X be adopted.
Resolved further, that, as the Principal has explained to the meeting that the Senatus has already expressed an opinion on the Statutes and that he intends to bring them before the other Faculty Boards, all that portion of the Committee's Report after the paragraph relating to the tenth Statute be simply recorded in the minutes of the Senate, further that that portion relating to the tenth Statute, along with the preamble, be transmitted to the Secretary of the Board of Trustees.

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Six Professors in the
Medical Faculty
receive the degree
of M.D.
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The following motion, which has been laid on the table at the previous meeting, was then taken up and agreed to, that whereas six of the Professors in the Faculty of Medicine, who are graduates of other Universities, are desirous of [strikethrough] becoming [/strikethrough] possessing the degree of Doctor of Medicine in this University and have passed the examinations presented by the Calendar, therefore resolved that the Senate do now grant the degree of Doctor of Medicine to Professors John R. Dickson M.D., Horatio Yates, M.D., John P. Litchfield M.D., Fife Fowler M.D., Michael Lavell M.D. and Roderick Kennedy M.D.

The meeting was then closed with the benediction.

William Leitch, Principal

Queen's University, 24th March, 1863.

This day the College Senate met and was constituted, the Very Rev. Principal in the chair. [Sede--??] Professors Mowat, Williamson, Lawson, Weir, Murray, Dickson, Fowler, and Kennedy.

After the minutes of the previous meeting had been read and sustained the Dean of the Medical Faculty reported