186 THE ROYAL CHARTER OF INCORPORATION 
seal, with full power and authority to alter, vary, break, 
and renew the same at their discretion, and by the 
same name to sue and be sued, implead and be im- 
pleaded, and answer and be answered unto in every 
court of us, our 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 property, whatsoever ; and 
shall 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, effects, construc- 
tions, and purposes whatsoever, as any other of our 
liege subjects, or any other body politic and corporate 
in our United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, 
not being under any disability, might do in their re- 
spective concerns: AND WE 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 recognised 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 recognised 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 WE DO 
FURTHER DECLARE and GRANT, That general 
meetings of the members of the said body politic and 
corporate shall from time to time be held ; and that 
there shall always be a council to direct and manage 
