ABSTRACT OF THE CHARTER 
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Clause 43, directs, that the said Board may, with the consent of 
the “ council, vary, alter, or add, to the nature or form of the ex- 
aminations hereinafter directed, as they shall see fit.” 
Clause 44, directs, that no order, rule, or bye-law, to be made 
by the council, nor any appointment of a member or members of 
the board of examiners, “ shall be of any force until it has been 
laid before and approved of by the said Veterinary Board.” 
Clause 45, directs, that a board of examiners shall be formed, 
and the professors of the Royal Veterinary College of London, and 
the professors of the Veterinary College of Edinburgh, the princi- 
pal veterinary surgeon to the army, the veterinary examiner to the 
Honourable East India Company, shall be ex-officio members 
thereof ; and that the council shall elect from those who are or 
shall have been public teachers in the medical profession eight 
persons, four of which are to be resident in London, and four to be 
resident in Edinburgh or Glasgow ; that the council shall elect 
from the members of the body politic and corporate eight other 
persons, four of such members to be resident in England, and four 
to be resident in Scotland. 
Clause 46, directs, that on a vacancy by death, or otherwise, of 
a member of the board of examiners, such not being caused by 
the death or resignation of an ex-officio member , the council shall 
fill up such vacancy, but subject to the approval of the Veterinary 
Board. 
Clause 47, directs, that every student, prior to examination, shall 
have completed his twenty-first year. 
Clause 48, directs, that any person who shall have obtained a 
diploma from any of the universities, or from any public veterinary 
school in any of our colonies or in foreign parts, or from any of the 
Royal Colleges of Physicians or Surgeons, or the Honourable 
Company of Apothecaries of London, Edinburgh, or Dublin, shall 
produce certificates of having attended one of the recognised veteri- 
nary colleges of not less than one sessional year. 
Clause 49, directs, that those students who shall not be qualified 
under the previous cause shall study for not less than two sessional 
years. 
Clause 50, directs, that at the expiration of two years after the 
date of the proposed charter, students shall be required to serve an 
apprenticeship of not less than two years with a member of the 
body politic or corporate, or of not less than three with a member 
of the Royal College of Surgeons, or Honourable Company of 
Apothecaries of London, Dublin, or Edinburgh, or of the Pharma- 
ceutical Society of London ; or who shall have been established as 
a practitioner of the veterinary art for not less than three years be- 
fore the granting of the said proposed charter, although not having 
