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empowered to place the Bill in the hands of the Honourable the 
Lord Beaumont for presentation, and that immediate steps be 
taken to obtain signatures to the abovenamed petitions. 
Jas. B. SlMONDS 
Charles Spooner 
Alex. Henderson 
Thos. Walton Mayer 
Wm. Robinson 
E. N. Gabriel 
ARTHUR Cherry, Secretary to Committee . 
-May 3d, 1851. 
To the Right Honourable the Lords Spiritual and Temporal 
in Parliament assembled . 
The humble Petition of the undersigned Veterinary 
Surgeons, practising at 
and its vicinity. 
Sheweth, 
That your Petitioners by Letters Patent, bearing date the 
Eighth day of May, in the Seventh Year of Her present 
Most Gracious Majesty, have been incorporated, and by 
the said Letters Patent the Members of the Corporation 
are deemed and taken to be recognized as a profession 
individually known and exclusively distinguished by the 
name or title of Veterinary Surgeons. 
That your Petitioners, in the practice of their Profes- 
sion, are greatly inconvenienced and sustain much loss by 
being compelled to serve on Juries, Leets, and Inquests, 
and to discharge the duties of County and Parochial 
Offices. 
That the compulsory performance of such duties and 
offices very frequently is attended with great and serious 
losses to the Owners of Horses, Cattle, and other domes- 
ticated Animals. 
That the discharge of such duties unavoidably forces 
your Petitioners to neglect those Animals intrusted to 
their Medical Care, not only tending to the aggravation of 
the diseases of such Animals, but augmenting in a serious 
degree the loss of life. 
Your Petitioners humbly submit their case to the con- 
sideration of your Honourable House, in the hope 
and expectation that your Lordships will enact a 
Law, relieving them of what they so justly com- 
plain, by extending to Veterinary Surgeons the 
exemption which the Medical and other Profes- 
sions enjoy. 
And your Petitioners will ever pray, &c. 
