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Members of the said Profession, or Professors of the said Art, and shall be indi¬ 
vidually known and distinguished by the Name or Title of Veterinary Surgeons : 
And whereas Veterinary Surgeons, and the Professors and Teachers of Veterinary 
Colleges and Schools, are compelled to discharge the Duties of County, Parochial, 
and other Offices, and serve on Juries, Leets, and Inquests, which is highly detri¬ 
mental to the Interest of their Profession, and very injurious to the Proprietors of 
Horses, Cattle, and other domesticated Animals; and as there is no Law to 
relieve them from such Duties and Services, it would be expedient that an Act 
should be passed exempting them from the Duties and Services aforesaid: Be it 
therefore enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the 
Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in 
this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, as follows: 
That from and after the passing of this Act Veterinary Surgeons actually 
practising in any Part of the United Kingdom, and the Professors and Teachers 
of Veterinary Colleges and Schools recognized by the said recited Letters Patent, 
and the Professors and Teachers of Veterinary Colleges and Schools which shall 
be established for the Purposes of Education in Veterinary Surgery in the United 
Kingdom by Authority of the Crown, are hereby absolutely freed and exempted 
from serving any Parochial Office, and from being returned and inserted in the 
Lists to be prepared in pursuance of the Provisions of an Act passed in the Sixth 
Year of the Reign of His Majesty King George the Fourth, intituled “ An Act 
for consolidating and amending the Law relating to Jurors and Juries,” notwith¬ 
standing any Prescription, Grant, Writ, or Statute to the contrary. 
The Secretary having read the last clause of the Exemption 
Bill, in which an alteration had been made, limiting the 
exemption prayed for to parochial offices and juries, 
The President said he thought that one reason why the bill 
was lost last session was, that the exemptions sought for were 
so numerous. 
Mr. Wilkinson was of opinion that, before any further 
expenses were incurred, we ought to endeavour to remove those 
oppositions with which we have now to contend. When the 
proper time arrived he intended to move that a deputation be 
formed to wait upon the Secretary of State for the Home 
Department, or some other member of the Government, to 
ascertain its views on the subject; for he held it to be worse 
than futile to press our application if still opposed by the 
Government. 
A brief conversation followed, and it was considered expedient 
that no immediate steps should be taken with reference to this 
measure. „ 
Professor Morton gave notice of a motion respecting the 
division of the Board of Examiners; and the proceedings ter¬ 
minated by The President naming Professor Simonds, Mr. 
Wilkinson, and the Secretary, as the Committee of Revision. 
J. Wilkinson, 
J. B. Simonds. 
E. N. Gabriel, 
