PROCEEDINGS IN COUNCIL. 175 
To the Honourable the Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and 
Ireland, in Parliament assembled. 
THE HUMBLE PETITION of the undersigned In¬ 
habitants residing at and its neighbourhood , 
in the County (or Counties) of 
Sheweth, 
That your Petitioners, being Proprietors of Horses, Cattle, and other 
domesticated Animals, have to avail themselves of the professional services 
of Veterinary Surgeons when such Animals are suffering from disease or 
accident. 
That your Petitioners sustain heavy losses from the present state of the 
law as affecting Veterinary Surgeons. 
That diseases of an epizootic nature are often very prevalent among 
Animals, frequently without shewing premonitory symptoms, and it not un- 
frequently happens, when your Petitioners’ Horses, Cattle, or Sheep are thus 
suddenly attacked, that the Veterinary Surgeon cannot give his immediate 
personal attendance, having been summoned to a distance to serve on Juries, 
at the Assizes or Quarter Sessions, or engaged in discharging the duties of 
Parochial, or other offices. 
Your Petitioners therefore pray that your Honourable House 
will pass such a Law as will relieve Veterinary Surgeous from 
their present liability to such duties, 
And your Petitioners will ever pray, &c. 
A Bill intituled an Act to exempt Veterinary Surgeons, and Professors and Teachers 
of Veterinary Colleges or Schools, from serving on Juries and other Offices. 
WHEREAS by Letters Patent, bearing Date at Westminster the Eight 
Day of March in the Seventh Year of the Reign of Her present Majesty, 
reciting (among other things) that Thomas Turner, William Joseph Goodwin, 
Thomas Mayer, William Dick, William Sewell, Charles Spooner, and James 
Beart Simonds, by their petition, humbly represented that the Royal Vete¬ 
rinary Colleges of London and the Veterinary College of Edinburgh have 
been established for many Years for the Education of Students in the Vete¬ 
rinary Art, and that the Petitioners have been Pupils at the said Royal 
Veterinary College of London, which was established in the Year Seventeen 
hundred and ninety-one; that the said College was instituted to improve the 
Veterinary Art; that the Institution had been of great advantage to the Country 
and to the Royal Army; that said Petitioners had been at considerable Expense 
in Payment of the necessary Fees until they obtained a proper Certificate or 
Diploma; and that nearly One Thousand Members who graduated at the Vete¬ 
rinary Colleges of London and Edinburgh are practising as Veterinary Surgeons : 
And whereas in and by the said Letters Patent it is willed, granted, ordained, 
and declared that the said Thomas Turner, William Joseph Goodwin, Thomas 
Mayer, William Dick, William Sewell, Charles Spooner, and James Beart Si¬ 
monds, with such other Persons as hold Certificates of Qualification to practice 
as Veterinary Surgeons granted by the Royal Veterinary College of London or 
by the Veterinary College of Edinburgh respectively, and such other Persons as 
now are or may hereafter become students of the Royal Veterinary College of 
London or of the Veterinary College of Edinburgh, or of such other Veterinary 
College, corporate or unincorporate, as now is or hereafter shall be established for 
the purposes of Education in Veterinary Surgery, whether in London or else¬ 
where in the United Kingdom, and who shall pass such Examination as may be 
required by the Orders, Rules, and Byelaws framed and confirmed pursuant to the 
said recited Letters Patent, be Members of and form One Body Politic and Cor¬ 
porate, by the Name of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons : And whereas 
the said recited Letters Patent do further declare and grant that the Veterinary 
Art, as practised by the Members of tbe said Body Politic and Corporate, shall 
be henceforth deemed and taken to be and recognised as a Profession, and that the 
Members of the said Body Politic and Corporate, solely and exclusively of all 
other Persons whomsoever, shall be deemed and taken and recognised to be 
