OF VETERINARY SURGEONS. 185 
rights, powers, privileges, franchises, and immunities, 
as are herereinafter expressed, and that the veterinary 
art might henceforth be recognised by law as a profes- 
sion : NOW THEREFORE KNOW YE, that we, 
being desirous to encourage a design so laudable, of 
our special grace, certain knowledge, and mere motion, 
HAVE willed, granted, ordained, and declared, and DO 
by these presents, for us, our heirs, and successors, will, 
grant, ordain, and declare, that the said Thomas Turner, 
William Joseph Goodwin, Thomas Mayer, William 
Dick, William Sewell, Charles Spooner, and James Beart 
Simonds, together with such others of our loving sub- 
jects as now hold certificates of qualification to practise 
as veterinary surgeons, granted by the Royal Veteri- 
nary College of London, or by the Veterinary College 
of Edinburgh, respectively, and such other persons as 
respectively now are, and may hereafter become, stu- 
dents 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 London 
or elsewhere in our United Kingdom, and which we, or 
our Royal successors, shall under our or their sign 
manual authorise in that behalf, and shall pass such 
examination as may be required by the orders, rules, 
and bye-laws which shall be framed and confirmed 
pursuant to these presents, shall by virtue of these 
presents be members of and form one body politic and 
corporate,bythenameof“THE ROYAL COLLEGE 
OF VETERINARY SURGEONS,” by which name 
they shall have perpetual succession, and a common 
