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THE VETERINARIAN, AUGUST 1, 1847. 
Ne quid falsi dicere audeat, ne quid veri non audeat. — C icero. 
It appears, by our Council Report for the present month, that a 
letter has been received from the Home Secretary, Sir George Grey, 
by our President, announcing the arrival of a Petition from the 
Governors of the Royal Veterinary College of London, supported by 
the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland, for a separate 
Veterinary Charter. Our readers will remember that in a former 
communication on the subject — mentioned in The Veterinarian 
for December last — Sir George Grey pledged himself to give 
notice of any such petition ; and by this letter has that pledge 
been most honourably redeemed. 
That a petition at once so unwarrantable and unreasonable will 
be complied with, seems most unlikely. Some persons, indeed,, 
go so far as to say that the law would never sanction any such 
duplication of charter to the same professional body. Little, how- 
ever, as we ourselves pretend to know of the law concerning 
charters, we must confess this is not our opinion. At the same 
time, we have the strongest grounds both for thinking and be- 
lieving that no Home Secretary, unless under circumstances of a 
totally opposite character from any that can be shewn to exist in 
the present case, would feel himself warranted in submitting any 
such duplicate document to his Sovereign for signature. He must 
— he will— in the first place, clearly see his way into the necessity 
that exists for any second charter to the same body, or any branch 
thereof; and, in the second place, he will look into the conse- 
quences likely to accrue from the grant of two' charters where there 
actually needs but one ; and where there is already one which, 
though, for certain interested reasons, it satisfieth not the Schools 
or “ Colleges,” has satisfied and does satisfy the VETERINARY 
PROFESSION AT LARGE. Sir George Grey has only to turn to 
the document he received from our President in September last, 
