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ROYAL COLLEGE OF VETERINARY SURGEONS. 
for summoning persons to serve on Juries, and for other pur¬ 
poses relating thereto. 55 
That by the existing law “ all members and licentiates of 
the Royal College of Physicians in London, all members of 
the Royal College of Surgeons in London, Edinburgh, and 
Dublin, and apothecaries certificated by the Court of Ex¬ 
aminers of the Apothecaries 5 Company, if actually practising 
as physicians, surgeons, or apothecaries, respectively, 55 are 
exempt from serving on juries. 
That the veterinary profession was incorporated by Royal 
charter in the year One thousand eight hundred and forty- 
four, under the name and title of es The Royal College of 
Veterinary Surgeons. 55 
That by the said charter of incorporation it was enacted 
that all members of the said body, corporate and politic, 
“ should be individually known and distinguished by the 
name and title of veterinary surgeons. 55 
That as members of the said body corporate and politic, 
they have committed to their professional care the health of 
domesticated animals in general, and as such are to be con¬ 
sidered the conservators of an immense proportion of the 
wealth of the United Kingdom. 
That their being compelled to serve on juries often places 
the lives of valuable animals committed to their care in immi¬ 
nent danger, and not unfrequently leads to serious losses. 
That they beg leave most respectfully to submit that the 
various reasons which have been given in favour of the 
exemption of the members of the hereinbefore-named profes¬ 
sions can with equal force be urged as an appeal affecting 
the important interests, not only of the members of the said 
Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, but of all those in 
whose behalf their professional services are exercised. 
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that your 
Right Honorable House will be pleased to amend the 
said bill, by including in the list of exemptions from 
serving on juries the “ Members of the Royal College 
of Veterinary Surgeons. 55 
And your petitioners will ever pray. 
James B. Simonds, 
President , 
On lehalf of the Council of the Royal 
College of Veterinary Surgeons. 
Cheques were drawn for the current expenses. 
The “Testimonial Committee, 55 appointed to make arrange¬ 
ments for the presentation of a testimonial from the Council 
