608 THE VETERINARY PROFESSION — THE CHARTER. 
College simply into a school for the education of pupils in the 
veterinary science. The Charter also precludes any Professor of 
your petitioners’ College from interfering in the examination of 
students applying to become a member of the chartered corpora- 
tion, and authorises generally, orders, bye-laws, and rules, to be 
made by the said corporation for the management of their affairs, 
and for regulating the examination of students, which will be 
highly prejudicial to the College of your petitioners. 
No. III. 
To the Right Honourable her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State 
for the Home Department. 
The Humble Petition of the Noblemen and Gentlemen Subscribers 
to the Institution called the Royal Veterinary College 
of London, agreed to at a General Meeting of the Go- 
vernors and Subscribers, holden at the College on the 
1st July, 1844. 
Sheweth, — That in the Charter lately granted for the estab- 
lishment of a College, to be called the College of Royal Veterinary 
Surgeons, that the names of 
William Sewell 
Charles Spooner, and 
James B. Simonds, 
being the Professor and Assistant Professors of the Royal Veteri- 
nary College of London, appear as petitioners for the granting of 
the Charter in which their names are thus included. 
That it is true the above persons signed a petition purporting 
to be for a Charter to establish an institution such as the Royal 
College of Veterinary Surgeons; but they did so on an under- 
standing that before any specific instrument for such purpose was 
applied for, that such instrument should be submitted to them for 
their consideration, after all the provisions to be inserted had been 
set forth in it ; and that it should contain nothing which could 
prove detrimental to the Royal Veterinary College of which they 
are the officers. 
