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The sum of £25 was granted to the Committee for current 
expenses. 
The Secretary gave notice of the following motion : — “That 
the President be requested to communicate with the Honourable 
Board of Directors of the East India Company, calling attention 
to the fact of a non-graduated member of the College having 
obtained an appointment as veterinary surgeon in their employ ; 
a circumstance likely to prove most detrimental to the Honour- 
able Company’s service and to veterinary science, and utterly 
at variance with the system hitherto adopted in Her Majesty’s 
service.” 
The same gentlemen as at the last meeting were named by 
the President for the Committee of Supervision, Edw. Braby, 
W. Ernes, E. N. Gabriel. 
VETERINARY SURGEONS’ EXEMPTIONS. 
A Bill intituled an Act to exempt Veterinary Surgeons , and 
Professors and Teachers of Veterinary Colleges or Schools, 
from serving on Juries and other Offices. 
WHEREAS by Letters Patent, bearing date at Westminster 
the Eighth Day of March in the Seventh Year of the Reign of 
Her present Majesty, reciting (among other things) that Thomas 
Turner, William Joseph Goodwin, Thomas Mayer, William 
Dick, William Sewel, Charles Spooner, and James Beart 
Simonds, by their Petition, humbly represented that the Royal 
Veterinary College of London and the Veterinary College of 
Edinburgh have been established for many Years for the Edu- 
cation of Students in the Veterinary Art, and that the Petitioners 
have been Pupils at the said Royal Veterinary College of Lon- 
don, which was established in the Year Seventeen hundred and 
ninety-one ; that the said College was instituted to improve the 
Veterinary Art; that the Institution had been of great Advan- 
tage to the Country and to the Royal Army ; that said Peti- 
tioners had been at considerable Expense in Payment of the 
necessary Fees until they obtained a proper Certificate or Di- 
ploma; and that nearly One thousand Members who graduated 
at the Veterinary Colleges of London Edinburgh are practising 
as Veterinary Surgeons: And whereas in and by the said 
Letters Patent it is willed, granted, ordained, and declared that 
the said Thomas Turner, William Joseph Goodwin, Thomas 
Mayer, William Dick, William Sewel, Charles Spooner, and 
James Beart Simonds, with such other Persons as hold Certifi- 
cates of Qualification to practise as Veterinary Surgeons granted 
by the Roval Veterinary College of London or by the Vete- 
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