PROCEEDINGS IN COUNCIL. 
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(CIRCULAR.) 
Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons. 
The Council being desirous to obtain for the Members of the 
Body Corporate, the exemptions from the liabilities of serving 
on Juries, Inquests, and of County and Parochial Offices, have 
appointed a Committee to take measures towards obtaining a 
Bill from the Parliament granting such exemptions and pri- 
vileges. 
The Committee, consisting of the President, the Secretary, 
and Professors Spooner and Simonds, and Messrs. Henderson, 
T. W. Mayer, and Arthur Cherry, deeming it necessary that 
the application (which has already been made in the House of 
Lords) for such Bill of Exemptions and Privileges, should be 
supported by Petitions forwarded to you for the purpose of 
obtaining as many signatures as possible, one for those Mem- 
bers of the Body Corporate who reside in your neighbourhood, 
and the other for those who, being Proprietors, can by their 
Petition greatly assist ; the last is the more important of the 
two. 
As this is a measure that more particularly affects those Mem- 
bers of the Body Corporate resident in the Country, the Com- 
mittee trust that every means will be taken to forward the 
measure. 
Your attention to, and speedy return by post to me, as under, 
of the Petitions enclosed, is therefore requested. 
(By Order of the Committee), 
Arthur Cherry, 
Secretary to the Committee. 
31, Gresse Street, Rathbone Place, 
London, June 9th, 1851. 
To 
It was moved by Mr. Ernes , and seconded by Mr. Braby 
“ That the report now read, be received.” Carried unanimously. 
Mr. Wilkinson asked on what foundation such proceedings 
had commenced 1 He thought it would be imprudent to incur 
any great expense in the matter until they had ascertained what 
had been done by surgeons and other corporate bodies, and 
what success had attended their efforts. 
Mr. Henderson believed that the surgeons would be glad to 
have a clause in their favour inserted in the present Bill. 
Mr. Ernes thought there would be no difficulty in raising 
funds to pay the expenses of the Bill, for both the country and 
town members were greatly in favour of it. 
Mr. A. Cherry said the Bill would be in the form of a public, 
and not a private bill, and would therefore involve but a com- 
paratively small expenditure. 
