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REPLY OF THE COUNCIL TO 
Her Most Gracious Majesty for a Royal Charter of Incorporation ; 
but they most unceremoniously refused. 
14. That the body of veterinary surgeons, thus finding that the 
Governors of the Royal Veterinary College, or School, would 
neither co-operate with the veterinary profession at large in re- 
moving evils and improving and extending the curriculum of study, 
nor make any attempt thereto of themselves, were obliged, from 
the urgent necessity of the case, to take more effectual steps for 
their obtainment. 
15. That, in consequence, a public meeting of the veterinary 
profession was convened, at which meeting a Committee was 
appointed to take proper steps for petitioning Her Most Gracious 
Majesty for a Charter of Incorporation. 
16. That, at an interview between the Professors of the Royal 
Veterinary College, or School, and the Solicitor to that Institution, 
and certain members of the veterinary profession, the co-operation 
and assent of the Governors were stated by their Solicitor as ready 
to be given, provided the Committee made certain alterations in 
the petition then proposed to meet their wishes. 
17. That the Committee acceded to this request, and that the 
portions thus introduced by the Solicitor to the Governors are those 
which , in the present application, form the principal subject of 
complaint. 
18. That, subsequently, the names of Messrs Spooner and Si- 
monds, professors or teachers at the Royal Veterinary College or 
School, were added to the Petition, at their own special request. 
19. That the proposed Petition and draft of Charter were sub- 
mitted to the consideration of the solicitor to the Royal Veterinary 
College, or School, and his opinion taken thereon. 
20. That the clause excluding the professors or teachers from 
becoming examiners of their own pupils was inserted by the 
direction of the legal adviser to the Crown. 
21. That, after the proposed draft of a Charter had been cor- 
rected by the advisers to the Crown, it was submitted to the 
solicitor to the Royal Veterinary College, or School, at his own 
request, and by him stated to be improved thereby. 
22. That the allegation on the authority of the professors, that 
surreptitious alterations were made in the draft of the Charter, has 
already, at a meeting of a deputation of the Governors appointed 
to confer with a deputation from your Memorialists, been distinctly 
withdrawn. 
23. That all necessary expenses and charges of obtaining the 
same have been borne by the body of veterinary surgeons, without 
any aid whatsoever, either pecuniary or otherwise. 
24. That the body of the veterinary profession never sought to 
