GU THE VETERINARY PROFESSION — THE CHARTER. 
mil tee and their Solicitor called on Mr. France with the Draft 
Charter as altered by Mr. Bethune ; that the alterations made by 
Mr. Bethune were inserted in red ink in the Draft Charter, as 
shewn in the copy marked E, and that Mr. France’s attention was 
particularly directed to them by the solicitor to the committee : that 
Mr. France carefully read over those alterations, which he stated 
he considered to be improvements; and again, on behalf of the 
College, approved of the Draft Charter, and returned the same to 
the Chairman and Solicitor of the Veterinary Committee, with a 
suggestion that the term “ certificated members” should be altered 
to “graduates” of the Royal Veterinary College, which sugges- 
tion the Committee were desirous of adopting, but which Mr. 
Bethune, on further communication with him, refused to permit, 
observing that the Veterinary College of London had no right to 
confer degrees. 
That there was no understanding, express or implied, that 
besides submitting the Draft Charter to the Solicitor of the Royal 
Veterinary College of London, it should be submitted to the 
Governors, Professor, and Assistant Professors of that College, it 
being understood that whatever communications were to be made 
to that College should be made by Mr. France, their solicitor, with 
whom the petitioners for the present Charter communicated in his 
official capacity of solicitor to that College. 
We declare that the full Draft of the Charter as it was ultimately 
granted is the same as that submitted to Mr. France and approved 
of by him. 
That the veterinary profession were given to understand by 
Mr. France, that the Governors of the College were perfectly 
aware of the movements of the veterinary profession, and that the 
Committee of the petitioners never withheld any information from 
the College authorities; that reports of the proceedings of the 
Committee were from time to time published and circulated. 
That Assistant Professor Simonds, of the Royal Veterinary College 
of London, was throughout the whole of the proceedings for obtain- 
ing the Charter, a member of the Committee for obtaining such 
Charter; that Professor Sewell, of the Royal Veterinary College of 
London, since the Charter granted to this body has been obtained, 
and since the whole of the Charter after it was obtained has been 
