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THE PETITION FOR A NEW CHARTER. 
Whitehall, 15th September, 1847. 
Sir, 
I am directed by Secretary Sir George Grey to acknowledge 
the receipt of your letter of the 10th instant, and to transmit to 
you the enclosed copy of the petition of the Royal Veterinary 
College of London and the Highland and Agricultural Society of 
Scotland, in pursuance of your request. 
I am, Sir, 
Your obedient servant, 
Denis Le Marchant. 
Thos. Turner, Esq., 
President of Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, 
311, Regent-street. 
To the Right Honourable Sir George Grey, Bart., 8$c tyc., fyc. 
The Humble Petition of the President and Noblemen and 
Gentlemen, Governors of “the Royal Veterinary College 
of London,” and the President and Directors of the 
“ Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland,” 
Sheweth, 
That a Charter was granted by Her Majesty on the 7th day of 
March, in the eighth year of her reign, on the Petition of Thomas 
Turner, William Joseph Goodwin, Thomas Mayer the elder, 
William Dick, William Sewell, Charles Spooner, and James 
Beart Simonds, to them and to such others as then held certifi- 
cates of qualification to practise as veterinary surgeons, granted by 
the Royal Veterinary College of London or by the Veterinary 
College of Edinburgh, and to such other persons as should there- 
after become students at either of such colleges, or at any other 
college to be sanctioned by her Majesty for that purpose, and 
should pass such examination as might be required by the orders, 
rules, and bye-laws to be made under the said Charter, that they 
should be members of and form one body politic and corporate by 
the name of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons. 
That some of the reasons urged by the Petitioners for the grant- 
ing of the said Charter, and which are fully set out in the said 
Charter as being those on which it was granted, were, that the said 
Veterinary Colleges of London and Edinburgh had been esta- 
blished for many years for the education of students in the veteri- 
nary art. 
That the Royal Veterinary College of London was so established 
in the year 1791, and had been patronised by her Majesty’s royal 
