THE PETITION FOR A NEW CHARTER. 
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Sir James Graham, baronet, your petitioners entered into nego- 
tiations with the said Council, and proposed to them several alter- 
ations in the Charter ; those to which your petitioners attach the 
greatest importance being, that in order to insure the proper go- 
vernment of the existing Colleges for the education of students, 
and enhance the respectability, and thereby increase the usefulness 
of the veterinary profession as a body, there should be formed a 
veterinary board, consisting of her Majesty’s Principal Secretary 
of State for the Home Department, or some person appointed by 
him, and a certain number of the heads of such Colleges, and of the 
said Highland and Agricultural Society, and of certain other pub- 
lic officers of the veterinary profession, to whom the acts of the 
Council and the appointment of the Examiners, and all bye-laws, 
should be submitted for approval. That the Professors of the 
Royal Veterinary College of London, appointed by the Governors 
of that Institution, and the Professors of the Veterinary College 
of Edinburgh, appointed by the Highland and Agricultural Society 
of Scotland, should be ex officio members of the Council. 
That members of the veterinary profession resident above twenty 
miles from London should be at liberty to vote for members of 
Council by proxy. 
That such Professors, together with other public officers con- 
nected with the veterinary profession, should be ex officio members 
of the Examining Board. That the maximum fee of ten guineas 
allowed to be taken by the Charter, and actually imposed by the 
Council for the admission of students, should be reduced to a max- 
imum fee of five guineas, for examination and admission inclusive. 
That the Veterinary Board should be empowered as veterinary 
science progresses, and with the consent of the Council, to alter or 
extend the curriculum of study and the nature of the examinations. 
That a minimum course of study should, for the purpose of in- 
suring the efficient education of pupils, be inserted and required by 
the Charter ; and that the bye-law as to the apprenticeship of stu- 
dents prior to entering the said Colleges should be notified to meet 
existing circumstances. 
That such negociations were aided by his Royal Highness the 
Duke of Cambridge, the President of the Royal Veterinary College 
of London, who, as such President, called a meeting of the Go- 
vernors to meet a deputation from the Council of the said corporate 
body ; and it was hoped that the above views, as approved of and 
suggested by his Royal Highness at such meeting for the consider- 
ation of the Council of the corporate body, would have been ac- 
ceded to. 
That, however, the Council has since refused to submit to an 
