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REPORT OF ANNUAL MEETING. 
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 that 
Charter, should, by virtue thereof, 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 perpetual succession, and a Common Seal, with full power 
and authority to alter, vary, break, and renew the same at their 
discretion, and by the same name to sue and be sued, implead 
and be impleaded, and answer and be answered unto in every 
Court of Her Majesty, her heirs and successors, and be for 
ever able and capable in the Law to purchase, receive, and 
possess to them and their successors any goods and chattels or 
other personal property whatsoever, and should have full 
power and authority to sell and dispose of any goods and 
chattels or other personal property so to be by them, acquired, 
and to act and do in all things relating to the said body politic 
and corporate as fully and effectually to all intents, effects, 
constructions, and purposes whatsoever, as any other of Her 
Majesty’s liege subjects, or any other body politic and corporate 
in Her Majesty’s United Kingdom of Great Britain and 
Ireland, not being under any disability, might do in their re¬ 
spective concerns; and Her Majesty did further declare and 
grant that the Veterinary Art, as practised by the members of 
the said body politic and corporate, should be thenceforth 
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, should be 
deemed and taken and recognised to be members of the said 
profession or professors of the said art, and should be indi¬ 
vidually known and distinguished by the name or title of 
Veterinary Surgeons. 
And in the said Charter were contained certain regulations 
for the conduct and management of the affairs of the said 
Corporation. 
And whereas it is expedient that such of Her Majesty’s 
subjects as may from time to time require Veterinary Medical 
aid should be enabled to distinguish the Members of the Koyal 
College of Veterinary Surgeons from others who have not 
passed the examination requisite for entitling them to become 
members of the said College, and who are not members 
thereof: 
Be it enacted by the Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty, 
by and with the advice of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, 
and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by 
the authority of the same, as follows : 
I. —This Act may, for all purposes, be cited as the Veterinary 
Medical Act. 
II. —This Act shall take effect from the Eirst day of Octo¬ 
ber, One thousand eight hundred and sixty-four. 
