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THE PETITION FOR A NEW CHARTER. 
rejection of such students as members of the said body politic and 
corporate, and fixing and determining the amount to be paid on 
examination and admission, or otherwise, and generally touching 
all other matters relating to the said body, and to alter the same, 
and make new orders, rules, and bye-laws, as the Council shall 
think proper. 
That, by another provision of the Charter, the Professors of Col- 
leges are excluded from acting as examiners of the students at 
such Colleges. 
That the powers given to make such orders, rules, and bye-laws 
are so wide as to take the management of the Royal Veterinary 
College of London, as a school, entirely out of the hands of the 
Governors of that Institution, in whom the management has been 
vested since its establishment in 1791, and under whose direction 
the advantages to the veterinary profession and to the public, as 
set forth in the Petition and the Preamble of the Charter, have 
arisen. 
That the said Royal Veterinary College of London is the private 
property of the Subscribers thereto, the Governors being the ap- 
pointed directors thereof, and who may continue or close the same 
at their discretion ; and it is only from their desire to advance the 
veterinary art that they have allowed their Institution to be em- 
ployed as a college of instruction, and that thereby the veterinary 
profession in this country owes even its existence to their esta- 
blishment. 
Your petitioners, the President and Governors of the Royal 
Veterinary College of London, therefore, complain of the powers 
granted by the said Charter to the veterinary profession over their 
Institution, and of their not being in any way represented in the 
said chartered body. 
Your petitioners allege that the members of the veterinary pro- 
fession have no means of educating students, as required by their 
Charter, excepting at the Royal Veterinary College of London and 
the Veterinary College of Edinburgh. 
That the profession is yet young, and, being so, dependent on 
the Colleges of London and Edinburgh ; and being also intimately 
connected with the science of agriculture, the societies for the pro- 
motion of which have also rendered their aid to such colleges and 
to the veterinary profession, will be greatly benefitted by a closer 
alliance with the said Highland and Agricultural Society, and That 
thereby additional dignity will be reflected on the whole profession. 
That with a view to induce the Council appointed under the 
said Charter to meet the views of your petitioners, and which 
views were acquiesced in and supported by her Majesty’s then 
Secretary of State for the Home Department, the right honourable 
