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THE CHARTER. 
by Leggan, till he died; witness wanted to barter the same horse 
at Newtownhamilton fair to Corrigan; saw M’Gilly there; did not 
ask him to take back the horse, owing to its being unsound; got 
back the horse from Leggan on the 1 6th, but did not offer to return 
him to M’Gilly till the 24th : about that time discovered that the 
horse was Corrigan’s ; Smith, the farrier, said that the horse had 
cataract his eye, and after that the sale was made to Leggan. A 
warranty was given: we had him two days at ploughing; he fell 
into a drain; his leg at the hock joint, after this, became swollen: 
he died about the last day of March. 
Joseph Brown examined. — Saw the horse ; believes he was 
unsound; it was a week after the fair of Ready when he saw him; 
he lived for nine or ten days after. 
Thomas Irwin . — Saw the horse both alive and dead; he was in 
a state of corruption. 
John MKenna . — Is a horse-shoer ; saw the chestnut horse in 
March last ; he was in a bad state of health ; saw him opened on 
the day he died. 
Mr. Small examined — Is a veterinary surgeon; examined a 
chestnut horse, on 15th Mai?ch, for Mr. Dargan, at the request of 
Mr. Leggan ; was unsound, having glanders, and ophthalmia in the 
left eye. From the nature of the discharge, and condition of the 
animal, thinks he must have had the disease at least a month ; the 
disease is dangerous to other horses, and is considered incurable. 
Swellings of the joints, particularly of the hocks, very often accom- 
pany farcy and glanders; the swelling described of the hock joint 
is more likely to have arisen from the former disease than from an 
injury by falling into a drain. 
The decree was confirmed, with costs. 
THE VETERINARIAN, SEPTEMBER 1, 1847. 
Ne quid falsi dicere audeat, ne quid veri non audeat. — CiCEno. 
After all that has passed; reviewing all the circumstances con- 
nected with the obtainment and working of the existing veterinary 
Charter, and comparing them with the efforts which are now being 
made, and in so far as getting up a petition for a second Charter 
goes have succeeded — after all this retrospection, we repeat, the 
more we seriously reflect on matters the stronger is our conviction 
