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Election of Curators
of the Library
[/margin]

from the Arts, Professor Lavell from the Medical and Mr Henderson
from the legal faculty were elected Curators of the Library.

The following motion was then laid on the table by Dr. Dickson
with the intimation that it should be brought before the Senate at next
meeting.

[margin]
Motion to confer degree
of M.D. on six of
the medical Professors
[/margin]

Whereas six Professors in the Faculty of medicine [insert] who [/insert] are graduates
of other Universities are desirous of possessing the degree of
Doctor of Medicine of this University and have passed the
examinations prescribed 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., Roderick Kennedy M.D. & Fife Fowler M.D.

The meeting was then closed with the benediction

William Leitch, Principal

Queens University 24th Feb., 1863

This day the College Senate met & was constituted, the Very
Rev. Principal in the chair. Sederunt Professors Mowat, Williamson,
Weir, Lawson, Murray, Dickson, Horatio Yates,
Octavius Yates, Fowler, Lavell & Kennedy.

The minutes of the previous meeting having been read
and sustained, the following Report of the Committee appointed
to examine the statutes was received:

[margin]
Report of Committee
on the Statutes [/margin]

Senate Room, Queen's College, 21st Feb, 1863

The Committee appointed by the Senate met this day,
present the Very Rev. Principal Leitch, Professors Williamson, Dickson,
& Lawson, and in accordance with their instructions, drafted the following
statement for submission to the Board of Trustees:

To the Honourable the Board of Trustees
of Queen's College, Kingston

The members of the Senate of Queen's College, feeling
deeply the importance of maintaining [insert] unimpaired [/insert] that harmony of feeling and
of action which has hitherto uniformly existed between the Board of
Trustees and the Senate, beg respectfully to submit to your Honorable
Board the following statement with the request that you will be pleased
to take the same into your consideration as embodying the views of the
Senate relative to certain statutes recently passed by your Board.

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Statute V.
[/margin]

In reference to the Statute the Senate is of opinion that the penalties enumerated