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by the Executive Committee of the Trustees to confer with
the Medical Practitioners of Kingston with a view to
the establishment of a Medical School in connection with
the College, and a joint meeting was thereafter held for
the purpose in the house of the Honble John A. Macdonald.
The matter having been fully considered, on the 7th March
a deputation of the Medical men of the City, consisting of
Drs. Sampson, Dickson, Stuart and Strange, waited on
the Trustees and presented a communication on the sub-
ject, when it was resolved, before taking further action, to
correspond with the Committee already referred to, appointed
at the last General Meeting to consider the best method of
opening up the Faculties of Law and Medicine, so as to
ascertain their views: And At a special General Meeting held
on 2nd August the Board of Trustees resolved on the recom-
mendation of the Committee to "give power to the Ex-
ecutive Committee to appoint Lecturers in Medicine for
the several branches, such Lecturers, until the circumstances
of the University shall warrant the appointment of permanent
Professors in that Faculty, to constitute a Board of Examiners
on the Report of which the Senatus Academicus may
have the power of conferring Degrees upon the Students;