418 VETERINARY SURGEONS* EXEMPTIONS. 
rinary College of Edinburgh respectively, and such other per- 
sons as now are or may hereafter become Students of the Royal 
Veterinary College of London or of the Veterinary College of 
Edinburgh, or of such other Veterinary College, corporate or 
unincorporate, as now is or hereafter shall be established for the 
Purposes of Education in Veterinary Surgery, whether in Lon- 
don or elsewhere in the United Kingdom, and who shall pass 
such Examination as may be required by the Orders, Rules, 
and Byelaws framed and confirmed pursuant to the said recited 
Letters Patent, be Members of and form One Body Politic and 
Corporate, by the Name of the Royal College of Veterinary 
Surgeons: And whereas the said recited Letters Patent do 
further declare and grant that the Veterinary Art, as practised 
by the Members of the said Body Politic and Corporate, shall 
be henceforth deemed and taken to be and recognized as a 
Profession, and that the Members of the said Body Politic 
and Corporate, solely, and exclusively of all other persons 
whomsoever, shall be deemed and taken and recognized to be 
Members of the said Profession, or Professors of the said Art, 
and shall be individually known and distinguished by the Name 
or Title of Veterinary Surgeons: And whereas Veterinary 
Surgeons, and the Professors and Teachers of Veterinary Col- 
leges and Schools, are compelled to discharge the Duties of 
County, Parochial, and other Offices, and serve on Juries, 
Leets, and Inquests, which is highly detrimental to the Interest 
of their Profession, and very injurious to the Proprietors of 
Horses, Cattle, and other domesticated Animals ; and as there 
is no Law to relieve them from such Duties and Services, it 
would be expedient that an Act should be passed exempting 
them from the Duties and Services aforesaid : Be it therefore 
enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with 
the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, 
and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by 
the authority of the same, as follows : 
That from and after the passing of this Act Veterinary Sur- 
geons actually practising in any Part of the United Kingdom, 
and the Professors and Teachers of Veterinary Colleges and 
Schools recognized by the said recited Letters Patent, and the 
Professors and Teachers of Veterinary Colleges and Schools 
which shall be established for the Purposes of Education in 
Veterinary Surgery in the United Kingdom by Authority of 
the Crown, are hereby absolutely freed and exempted from 
serving the Office of Constable, Collector of the Assessed or 
other Taxes, Chuch warden, Overseer of the Poor, or any other 
Office, County or Parochial, and from being returned and from 
serving on any Jury, Leet, or Inquest whatsoever, and shall not 
