THE PROPOSED CHARTER. 
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interfere with any vested or other rights, whether private or public, 
but, on the contrary, did every thing in their power to support and 
uphold the existing schools. 
25. That your Memorialists, since the granting of Her Most 
Gracious Majesty’s Charter of Incorporation, have uniformly acted 
on these views and principles ; that their only object has been to 
obtain a more perfect curriculum of study, and the distributing 
throughout the kingdom better qualified practitioners to meet the 
increasing wants of the community. 
26. That your Memorialists are surprised to find that the Royal 
Veterinary College or School, which is a private Institution, sup- 
ported by voluntary contributions, but so exclusive that it will not 
allow a veterinary surgeon to become a subscriber , and the Veteri- 
nary College or School of Edinburgh, which is the sole property of 
one individual, should claim as vested rights the continuance of 
powers which they only obtained by usurpation . 
27. That your Memorialists have never made any secret of their 
wish to occupy the same position towards the schools of education 
as the College of Surgeons does to the medical schools, which posi- 
tion they occupy by the present Charter. 
28. Your Memorialists are fully sensible that the onward pro- 
gress of veterinary science has been greatly retarded, and nume- 
rous grievances of long standing have been mainly perpetuated, by 
an erroneous system, which the present Charter has put an end to. 
29. That, as your Memorialists are gradually exercising those 
powers with which they have been entrusted, it will be found that 
there is no necessity for another Charter. That the character and 
usefulness of the veterinary profession will be raised by the mea- 
sures already in operation, and that there is no ground for the in- 
dulgence of those needless alarms expressed to Her Majesty by the 
opposing parties. 
30. That the allegation, that the members of the veterinary pro- 
fession have no means of educating students, is both unjust and illi- 
beral. That the materials for the establishment of a school of in- 
struction have been long in existence; the only reason why they 
have not been rendered available having been wholly from a de- 
sire not to interfere with the schools already existing. 
31. That for these reasons, and because the veterinary profes- 
sion are fully satisfied with the present Charter, your Memorialists 
pray that you, Right Honourable Sir, will not advise Her Most 
Gracious Majesty to grant the application now made. 
And your Memorialists, as in duty bound, will ever pray. 
(Signed by the President on behalf of the Council.) 
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