requisite, proper or convenient for the Regulation, Government, Profit or Advantage of the said Company or Corporation of the Barbers of London, and the Members thereof, and the same, from time to time, to alter or repeal; so as the By-laws, Ordinances, Rules and Constitutions so to be made and established, shall be examined, approved and allowed, as by the Laws and Statutes of this Realm is provided and required.
XVI. Provided always, and it is hereby enacted and declared, That the several By-laws, Ordinances, Rules and Constitutions, made and established for the Regulation and Government of the said United Company or Corporation, so far as the same do not relate to or concern the Art or Science of Surgery, and which on the said twenty-third Day of June shall be subsisting and in Force, and shall not be repealed, annulled or abrogated by virtue of this present Act, shall continue and be in Force, and shall be exercised, observed and executed by the said Company of Barbers established and incorporated by this Act, until such Time and Times respectively as the same By-laws, Ordinances, Rules and Constitutions shall respectively be repealed, annulled and made void, by Virtue and under the Authority of this present Act.
XVII. And it is hereby further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That the Master and Governors of the said Company or Corporation of Barbers of London shall be yearly elected and chosen on the second Thursday in August, by the Court of Assistants, or the major Part of them, or in such Manner as by the By-laws, Rules, Orders and Constitutions of the same Company or Corporation shall be ordained or provided; and that when and as often as any Member of the said Court of Assistants of the said Company of Barbers shall happen to die or be removed, it shall and may be lawful to and for the surviving Members of the said Court of Assistants, or the major Part of them, to nominate and elect one other Person, being a Freeman of the same Company, to be a Member of the said Court of Assistants, in the Room
