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ROYAL COLLEGE OF VETERINARY SURGEONS. 
7. If any doubt, difference, or dispute shall hereafter arise between 
the parties hereto, or their successors, touching these presents or the 
construction hereof, or any clause or provision herein contained, or the 
rights, duties, or liabilities of either party in connection therewith, the 
matter indifference shall be referred to two arbitrators or their umpire, 
pursuant to and so as with regard to the mode and consequences of the 
reference, and in all other respects to conform to the provisions in that 
behalf contained in the “ Common Law Procedure Act, 1854,” or any 
then subsisting statutory modification thereof. In witness whereof the 
Society and the College respectively have hereunto caused their respec¬ 
tive Seals to be affixed the day and year first above written, &c. 
This agreement having been duly considered, was signed and sealed ; 
and it was then resolved—“ That the Committee should apply to the 
Privy Council for a Supplementary Charter, which would enable the 
Council to carry ont its provisions.” 
The following is a draft-copy of the Charter now before Her Majesty’s 
Government: 
Supplemental Charter of the Royal College of Veterinary 
Surgeons. 
Victoria, by the Grace of God, of Great Britain and Ireland, Queen, 
Defender of the Faith, to all to whom these Presents shall come, 
Greeting: 
Whereas, by Our Royal Charter or Letters Patent, granted on the 
8th day of March, in the seventh year of Our reign, We were graciously 
pleased to grant, ordain, and declare that Thomas Turner, William 
Joseph Goodwin, Thomas Mayer, William Dick, William Sewell, 
Charles Spooner, and James Beart Simonds, together with such other 
persons as then held certificates of Qualification to practise as Veterinary 
Surgeons granted by the Royal Veterinary College of London or by 
the Veterinary College of Edinburgh respectively, and such other per¬ 
sons as then were or might thereafter become Students of the Royal 
Veterinary College of London, or of the Veterinary College of Edin¬ 
burgh, or of such other veterinary colleges, corporate or unincorporate, 
as then were or thereafter should be established for the purposes of 
education in veterinary surgery, whether in London or elsewhere in the 
United Kingdom, and which We or our Royal Successors should under 
our Sign Manual authorise in that behalf, and should pass such exami¬ 
nation as might be required by the orders, rules, and bye-laws which 
should be framed and confirmed pursuant to such Charter or Letters 
Patent, should be members of and form one body politic and corporate 
by the name of “ The Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons,” by which 
name they should have a perpetual succession and a common Seal, with 
such powers as in the same Charter mentioned: 
And whereas by Our Royal Charter or Letters Patent secondly 
granted on the 23rd day of August, in the fortieth year of Our reign, 
We did make further provision for the government and regulation of 
the affairs of the said College: 
And whereas the said College is now regulated and governed by and 
according to the provisions of Our said two recited Charters or Letters 
Patent, and also by and according to certain Bye-laws made by the said 
College for its regulation and better government; and the governing 
body of the said College consists of a Council of not more than thirty- 
one nor less than twenty-four members of the said College: 
And whereas the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland was 
