THE VETERINARY CHARTER. 
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of the same colleges, or either of them, or of such other veterinary 
college, corporate or incorporate, as now is or hereafter shall be 
established for the purpose 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 may be required 
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 
authority to alter, vary, break, and renew the same at their dis- 
cretion, and by the same name 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 the law to purchase, receive, and possess, to them 
and their successors, any goods and 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 body politic and corporate as fully and effectually, 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 Ireland, not being under 
any disability, might do in their respective concerns ; and that the 
veterinary art, as practised by the members of the said body politic 
and corporate, should henceforth be deemed and taken to be, and 
recognised as, a profession ; and that the members of the said body 
politic and corporate solely and exclusively , or all other persons 
whomsover, shall be deemed and taken and recognized to be mem- 
bers 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 also for regulating the appointment of 
a council, consisting of a president, six vice-presidents, and twenty- 
four members ; and also for regulating the annual appointment of 
a president and vice-presidents, and other officers of the said body 
politic and corporate, and the change or re-election of six members 
of the council every year, and the examination and government of 
