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THE CHARTER. 
rinary College with the Deputation of the Council of the Royal 
College of Veterinary Surgeons. 
On Tuesday, Aug. 4th, the Deputation waited upon the Go- 
vernors assembled in committee at the Thatched House Tavern, 
St. James’s Street, his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge 
having on the occasion graciously condescended to take the chair. 
There was a good deal of caution and reserve exhibited at the 
commencement of the interview ; the Governors alleging that, as 
the conference had been sought by the Deputation, the business of 
the meeting would have to be opened by the latter. To which 
the Deputation courteously replied, that, as rumour had been rife in 
whispering into the ears of their Council that the unalloyed satis- 
faction throughout the veterinary profession the Charter had given 
was not shared by the veterinary schools or colleges, and that as it 
was their Council’s wish to conciliate all parties, they had been 
deputed to attend on the present occasion, to learn in what respects 
the Charter had not given the desired satisfaction, with a view, if 
possible, to remove any alleged objections. This elicited the 
secret. The Governors now unreservedly made known to the 
Deputation the heads of their proposed alterations in the present 
Charter, accompanying the divulgement with the expression of hope 
that the Deputation would see the wisdom and policy of assenting 
to such alterations being made; otherwise they (the Governors) 
would labour under the necessity of carrying out a plan they had 
in prospect, of obtaining a separate Charter for their own and the 
Edinburgh Veterinary School. 
Now, the alterations proposed to be made in the Charter are of 
a nature that, were they acceded to, would, to all wholesome intents 
and useful purposes, render that instrument, virtually and substan- 
tially , a dead letter. It is, or was, proposed to form A VETERINARY 
board, to be constituted of the Secretary of State, of Governors 
of the Royal Veterinary College, of Members of the Agricultural 
Societies both in England and Scotland, of the Principal Veterinary 
Surgeon of the Army, of the Veterinary Examiner of the East 
India Company, and of the senior Professors of the London and 
Edinburgh Veterinary Schools ; there being, in the whole, four- 
teen members of the said Board, but four of whom are veterinarians, 
and three out of those four taken from the two “ Colleges.” And 
