114 ROYAL COLLEGE OF VETERINARY SURGEONS. 
Letters Patent, bearing date the 17th day of May 1787, by the 
name and title of The Highland Society of Scotland at Edin¬ 
burgh, and of new incorporated by the name and style of The 
Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland by Charter or 
Letters Patent granted the 18th day of June 1834 (and herein¬ 
after called “ the Society”) of the one part, and The Royal 
College of Veterinary Surgeons incorporated by Royal 
Charter or Letters Patent, dated the 8th day of March 1844 
(and hereinafter called “the College”) of the other part. 
Whereas the Society have from 1823 instituted lectures on 
veterinary science and medicine, and appointed examiners to 
examine students therein, and until 1844 granted to such 
students certificates of proficiency. And whereas, in 1848 the 
Society reconstituted its Board of Examiners, and have since 
granted annually certificates of qualification. And whereas it 
was amongst other things provided by the said Letters Patent 
of the 8th day of March 1844 that the concerns of the College 
should be directed and managed by a Council to be constituted 
as therein mentioned. And further that the said Council should 
and might make any orders, rules, and bye-laws, for fixing and 
determining amongst other things the times, places, and manner 
of examining students who should have been educated at the 
Royal Veterinary College of London or the Veterinary College 
of Edinburgh, or such other veterinary colleges as therein men¬ 
tioned, and who might be desirous to become members of the 
College, and for regulating the nature and extent of such ex¬ 
aminations, and for the appointment of persons to examine and 
determine upon the fitness and qualifications of such students, 
and for the admission or rejection of such students as members 
of the College, and for fixing and determining the sum and sums 
of money to be paid by such students either previous to their 
examination or upon their admission as members of the College 
or otherwise and generally touching all other matters relating to 
or connected with the College, and the same orders, rules, and 
bye-laws from time to time to alter, suspend, or repeal, and to 
make new orders, rules, and bye-laws in their stead as the 
Council should think most proper or expedient, so as the same 
were not repugnant to the Letters Patent now in recital, or to 
the laws of the realm. And whereas by a Supplemental Charter 
or Royal Letters Patent, dated the 23rd day of August 1876, it 
was amongst other things declared that with certain exceptions 
therein mentioned, and not material for the purposes of these 
presents, the College and the Council of the same should have 
and continue to have all such and the same jurisdiction, powers, 
and authorities for and with respect to the government of the 
College, and for inter alia the making, ordaining, confirming. 
