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manner, elect, choose, and appoint, out of their own Body, such other Person or Persons, to be Examiner or Examiners of Surgeons, for the same Company, in the Place or Stead of such Examiner or Examiners, as shall have happened to die, or have been removed from the said Office of Examiner, in the then next preceding Year; and also in like manner, elect, choose, and appoint, out of the Freemen of the said Company or Corporation of Surgeons established and incorporated by this Act, such Person or Persons to be of the Court of Assistants of the same Company or Corporation, in the Place and Stead of such Person or Persons who shall have happened to die in, or have been removed from, the said Office of Court of Assistants, in the then next preceding Year.

VIII. And it is hereby further enacted, That the said Company of Surgeons made, established, and incorporated by this Act, and their Successors, and all Persons who shall be Freemen of the same Company or Corporation, shall and may, from time to time, and at all Times for ever hereafter, have, hold, and enjoy all and every such and the same Liberties, Privileges, Franchises, Powers, and Authorities, as the Members of the said United Company or Corporation, being Freemen of the said Company, and admitted and approved Surgeons, within the Rules of the said Company and Corporation, could or might respectively have had, held, and enjoyed, by virtue of the said recited Act of Union or Incorporation, and the said Letters Patent of his said late Majesty King Charles the First respectively, and other the Royal Grants, Charters, and Patents, therein mentioned and referred to, so far as the same relate to the Art or Science of Surgery only, and not otherwise; and that in as full, ample, and beneficial Manner, to all Intents and Purposes, as if the same had in and by this present Act been expressly repeated and re-enacted; and that they, and all such who already have been, or hereafter shall be, examined and approved, pursuant to the Rules of the said Company, shall be entitled to practice freely, and without