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PROCEEDINGS IN COUNCIL. 
To the Right Honourable the Lords Spiritual and Temporal 
in Parliament assembled. 
The humble Petition of the undersigned Proprietors 
of Horses, Cattle, and other domesticated 
Animals, residing at 
in the County of 
Sheweth, 
That your Petitioners are Proprietors of Horses, Cattle, and 
other domesticated Animals, and have frequently to avail 
themselves of the aid of Veterinary Surgeons when their 
Animals are suffering from diseases or accidents. 
That your Petitioners acknowledge that of late years 
great benefits have resulted to them from the superior 
manner in which their Animals are treated by Scientific 
Practitioners of Veterinary Medicine and Surgery, which 
not only leads to the saving of the lives of many which 
otherwise would be lost, but to the arresting and cutting 
short the progress of disease. 
That very many of your Petitioners, depending upon 
Agricultural pursuits for a livelihood, can ill afford to incur 
the loss of valuable Animals. 
That your Petitioners often do sustain heavy losses from 
the present state of the Law as affecting Veterinary Sur- 
geons. 
That of late years many diseases of an epidemic nature 
have been very rife among Animals in general, after shew- 
ing themselves without any premonitory symptoms, and 
quickly carrying off their victims, and that it not unfre- 
quently happens when your Petitioners’ Horses, Cattle, 
Sheep, or Pigs are thus suddenly attacked, they find that 
the Veterinary Surgeon cannot give his personal attendance, 
having been summoned to a distance to serve on Juries at 
the Assizes or Quarter Sessions, or being compelled to 
attend Juries and Inquests, or discharge the duties of 
County or Parochial Offices. 
Your Petitioners, therefore, expect that your Honourable 
House will pass such a Law as will leave Veteri- 
nary Surgeons free to discharge the duties of their 
Profession. 
And your Petitioners will ever pray, &c. 
