612 THE VETERINARY PROFESSION — THE CHARTER. 
Charter of Incorporation, but that the Professors then declined 
to sign the petition unless the Committee consented to certain 
alterations being made in the petition by Mr. France, the solicitor 
of the Governors : that the alterations suggested by Mr. France, 
marked D*, were laid before the Committee, who declined to 
accede to them ; and that the petition, accompanied by the draft- 
charter, was presented at the office of the Secretary of State, 
without the signatures of the Professors of the Royal Veterinary 
College, but that the Committee for obtaining the Charter had 
previously resolved that no clause should be introduced in the 
Charter which would interfere with the private arrangements of 
the Royal Veterinary College ; and that, in consequence thereof, 
the clause usually inserted in charters, enabling the corporation 
to hold land by granting a dispensation from the operation of the 
statutes of mortmain, was by the Committee struck out of the draft 
of the proposed Charter. 
That, prior to the renewal of any application for the proposed 
Charter, a deputation from the Committee of Veterinary Surgeons 
again waited on the Professors of the Royal Veterinary College of 
London, at the latter end of the year 1842, Mr. France, the soli- 
citor to the Governors, being then also present : that such meeting 
was held by virtue of a previous appointment : that at this meeting 
the draft of the proposed Charter was read over by the Secretary 
to the Committee of Veterinary Surgeons, and also the petition 
for Charter : that certain alterations in the petition and Charter 
were then suggested by Mr. France, by which alterations Mr. 
France stated, that he thought they would be rendered complete, 
and which, if adopted, would secure the co-operation of the Col- 
lege : that the deputation requested Mr. France, on the part of the 
College, to make the alterations suggested by him, which he ac- 
cordingly did, and which, after they were received from Mr. France, 
were unanimously adopted by the Committee. 
That a fair copy of the draft of the proposed Charter, and also 
of the further petition for the Charter, as severally altered by Mr. 
France, were then laid before Professor Sewell at the Veterinary 
* The alterations here alluded to, concluded with praying that a Charter 
should be granted to the Governors and Graduates of the Royal Veterinary 
College of London. 
