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REPORT OF THE COUNCIL OF THE 
from the solicitor to the Royal Veterinary College : it was referred 
to the Deputation for consideration in committee, and the nature of 
the changes required, and the opinion of your Council thereon, 
will be most clearly understood from the following Report of the 
Committee, unanimously confirmed by the Council itself. 
[This “ Report” will be found printed in our Number for Sep- 
tember last — vol. xix, p. 517 et sequent . — under the heading 
of “The Objections of the Royal College of Veterinary Sur- 
geons to the Alterations proposed to be made in their Charter 
by the Governors of the Royal Veterinary College.] 
Pending these communications with the Governors of the Royal 
Veterinary College, the following communication was received by 
your President from the Home Office : — 
Sir, Whitehall , 23 d July , 1844. 
The subject of the Charter granted to the veterinary profession having 
been brought before Secretary Sir George Grey, I am directed to refer you to 
Mr. Manners Sutton’s letter to yourself of the 11th November last, recom- 
mending, on the part of Sir James Graham, certain changes in the existing 
Charter granted to the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, with a view 
of meeting the objections of several influential bodies interested in the 
advancement of the veterinary profession. 
It appears that a deputation from the Council of the Royal College of 
Veterinary Surgeons shortly afterwards waited upon Mr. Manners Sutton for 
the purpose of considering the proposed alterations, but no document can be 
traced in this office shewing the result of this deliberation. 
Before taking any further steps in the matter, Sir George Grey is desirous 
of receiving, with the least possible delay, a statement of the views enter- 
tained by the Council of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons in re- 
spect to the alterations in the existing Charter, recommended by Sir James 
Graham, to enable Sir George Grey to judge what farther proceedings may 
be necessary. 
I have the honour to be, 
Sir, 
Thos. Turner , Esq., Your obedient servant, 
Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons. S. M. Phillips. 
As it was most desirable that your Council should have become 
acquainted with, and have decided on, the proposals of the Gover- 
nors of the Royal Veterinary College before a reply was given to 
this communication, it was delayed till September, when the fol- 
lowing letter was sent, your President having repeatedly apolo- 
gised in the interval for the delay that had unavoidably taken 
place : — 
