THE VETERINARY CHARTER. 
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Edinburgh ; Charles Spooner, No. 1, Great College-street ; and 
James Beard Simonds, of No. 9, College-street, London, and to 
such persons as now hold certificates of qualification from the Royal 
Veterinary College of London, or the Veterinary College of Edin- 
burgh, and to such others as now are or hereafter may become 
students of the same Colleges, or either of them, or of such other 
veterinary college, corporate or incorporate, as now is or hereafter 
may be established for the purposes of education in veterinary 
surgery, whether in London or elsewhere in the united kingdom, 
and which may hereafter be sanctioned by the royal sign manual 
in that behalf, and should pass such examination as might be re- 
quired by the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons — a Royal 
Charter of Incorporation — that they may henceforth be one body 
politic and corporate, by the name and title of “ The Royal College 
of Veterinary Surgeons,” and that by that name they should have 
perpetual succession and a common seal, with full power and au- 
thority to alter, vary, break, and renew the same at their dis- 
cretion, and by the same manner to sue and be sued, implead and 
be impleaded, and answer and be answered unto, in every court of 
her said Majesty, her heirs and successors, and be for ever able 
and capable in law to purchase, receive and possess, to them 
and their successors, any goods or chattels or other personal pro- 
perty whatsoever — and should have full power and authority to sell 
and dispose of any goods and chattels or other personal property, 
so to be by them acquired, and to act and do in all things relating 
to the said proposed body politic and corporate, as fully and effec- 
tually to all intents, constructions, and purposes whatsoever, as 
any other of her Majesty’s subjects, or any other body politic 
and corporate in the united kingdom of Great Britain and Ire- 
land, not being under any disability, might do in their respective 
concerns. 
That the veterinary art, as practised by the members of the said 
body politic and corporate, should thenceforth be deemed and taken 
to be, and recognized as, a profession; and that the members of the 
body politic and corporate, solely and exclusively of all other per- 
sons whomsoever, shall be deemed and taken and recognized to be 
members of the said profession, or professors of the said art, and 
