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This Committee of five will not have plenary powers to

act for the Association, but can only report on the negotiations. The proposed conditions will then have to be considered by the divisions of the Association throughout the country. The negotiations are likely to be protracted, and there seems to us to be little chance that a scheme for putting the medical benefits of the Act into operation will be ready by January 15th. Our own sympathies with the medical profession are strong. The demand that the final court of appeal, in the case of complaints against doctors, should be a medical court, which alone understands the significance of medical etiquette, is, in our opinion, most reasonable, and so is the demand for extra payments.