A Court for t^e Revision of the Jury List was held on the 7th, whon J. Bath gate, Esq., R.M., presided. John G. Douglas, veter inary surgeon, applied to have his name re moved from tho Jury Li3t. His Worship read the exemptions specified in the schedule, and veterinary surgeons were not included therein. He was only empowered to admin ister the Act aa it stood. John Douglas said the veterinary surgeons had been recently exempted from the Jury List in England. He did not wish to shirk his duties as a citizen in any way, but he had a very wide country district to visit in October, November, and December, and if he hap pened to be taken as a Juryman in any of these months, they might as well put him and his family in the Benevolent Asylum, because he would not then be able to keep them all the year round. His Worship suggested that the applicant should endeav our to get veterinary surgeons in the list tf exemptions from service as Jurymen. His Worship then formally allowed the present Juiy List, and the Court ro?e.
