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REPORT OF THE COUNCIL OF THE 
To the Right Honourable Sir George Grey, Bart., fyc. Sfc. Sfc. 
The Humble Petition of the President and Noblemen and Gentlemen, 
Governors of “the Royal Veterinary College of London,” and the 
President and Directors of the “Highland and Agricultural Society 
of Scotland,” 
[As published in The Veterinarian, vol. xx, p. 616-620, to which the 
reader is referred.] 
In this Petition, it will be observed, reference is made to the 
heads of a Charter also submitted for consideration ; and, as it was 
obviously necessary to enable your Council to obtain a correct view 
of the measures taking against the body whose interests they were 
bound to protect that a knowledge of these heads of a Charter, 
&c., should be procured, a further appeal was made to Sir George 
Grey. 
To the Right Honourable Sir George Grey, fyc. Sf'C. 
Sir George, — I am requested by the Council of the Royal College of Vete- 
rinary Surgeons to return their thanks for your prompt attention to their 
request for a copy of the Petition from the Royal Veterinary College of 
London, and the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland ; and am 
directed further to trespass on your kindness in soliciting a copy of the heads 
of the Charter submitted for your consideration, which document they were 
not aware had been presented when I last had the honour of addressing you. 
I have the honour to be, 
Sir George, 
Your most obedient servant, 
Thomas Turner, 
311, Regent-street, President of the Royal College of 
Oct. 8th, 1847. Veterinary Surgeons. 
The reply gives the acquiescence as prompt as it was courteous. 
Sir, Whitehall, 19 th October, 1847. 
I am directed by Secretary Sir George Grey to acknowledge the receipt of 
your letter of the 8th instant ; and to transmit to you herewith, agreeably to 
your request, a copy of the Charter referred to in the Petition of the Royal 
Veterinary College, and the Highland and Agricultural Society. 
I am, Sir, 
To Thomas Turner, Esq., Your obedient servant, 
President of the Royal College of Veterinary Denis Le Marciiant. 
Surgeons, 311, Regent-street. 
The heads of the Charter proved to be a very long and ver- 
bose document, its more important points being freely transposed 
from the Charter of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, 
with others of a more complicated and ei ' parte nature rather incon- 
gruously dovetailed. The following is an abstract of its leading 
provisions : — 
