604. C. 15. Anno decimo o6lavo Georgii II. A. D. 1745. And if at any Time hereafter any fuch Perfon or Perfons, ufing and practifing the faid Art or Science of Surgery, and being qualified as aforefaid, ihall be chofen and elected into any of the faid Offices, or returned, required, or appointed to ferve on any Jury, Leet, or Inqueft, or be difquieted or difturbed by reafon thereof; that then fuch Perfon or Perfons, producing a Teftimonial, under the Common Seal of the faid Corporation, of fuch his Examination, Approbation, and Freedom, to the Perfon or Perfons by whom he fhall be fo elected or appointed, or by or before whom he fhall be fummoned, returned, or re- quired to ferve or hold any of the faid Offices or Duties, (hall be abfolutely difchar^ed from the fame; and fuch Nomination, Election, Return, and Appointment, ihall be utterly void, and of no Effect; any Order, Cuftom, Law, or Statute to the contrary in any wife notwithftanding. This Aft not to XI. Provided always, and be it hereby enacted by the Authority aforefaid, That this Act, or any prejudice the Thing therein contained, fhall not extend, or be conftrued or taken to prejudice, abridge, or in- PrefiJent, Col- f,.j n g e an y f the Privileges, Authorities, Powers, Rights, Liberties, or Franchifes heretofore granted by Ccla'nf London.' any°Act or Acts of Parliament, or by any Letters Patents, Charters or Charter of any of his Majefty's inh ' Royal PredecelTors, Kings or Queens of England, to the Prefident and College, or Commonalty, of the Faculty of Phyfick in London. Freemen of the XII. And it is hereby further enacted by the Authority aforefaid, That fuch of the Members of the UnitedCorripany, faid United Company or Corporation, who are Freemen of the faid Company, and are not admitted or njt.iJmittedSur- a pp rove j Surgeons, and their Succeffors, ihall, from and after the faid twenty-fourth Day of June one geons.incorpora- t houfand feven hundred and forty-five, be, and they are hereby made and conftituted, a Body Corpo- t{d . . rate, and Commonalty Perpetual, which, at all Times hereafter fhall be called by the Name of The Ma- £j" d n "? d,fieient yfcr, Governors, and Commonalty of the Myftery of Barbers of London; and by the fame Name ihall plead ame '. and be impleaded before all manner of Juitices, in all Courts, and in all manner of Actions and Suits; Rent nTexceed- and alfo purchafe, enjoy, and take to them, and their SuccelTors, any Lands, Tenements, Rents, or He- ingiool. per reditaments, not exceeding the yearly Rent or Value of two hundred Pounds in the whole, without Ann. incurring any of the Penalties or Forfeitures of the Statute of Mortmain. Names of the XIII. And it is hereby further enacted by the Authority aforefaid, That Mafter Jonathan Medley, the Mifter, &c. of prcfent firft Mafter or Governor of the faid United Company or Corporation, and Mafter Humphrey the Company of Negus, the prefent third Mafter or Governor of the faid United Company, and fuch two other Perfons Barbers of tun- as ^ji hereafter be elected and appointed for that Purpofe in purfuance of this Act, and as is herein after ' mentioned, ihall be and they are hereby refpectively eftablifhed and confirmed the Mafter and Governors of the Company or Corporation of Barbers of London, eftablifhed and incorporated by this Act; and ihall continue in, and hold, exercife and enjoy the faid Offices refpectively, until others fhall be chofen, elected and appointed in and to the fame Offices refpectively, purfuant and according to the By-laws, Rules, Orders and Conftitutions of the fame Company; and alio that the faid Jonathan Medley, Hum- phrey Negus, and JVilliam Parker, Luke Maurice, John Barnwell, John Truelove, M'^illiam Haddon, John Negus, Edward Boxley, Samuel Rutter, Robert Scrooby, Richard Swithin, Ediuard Colebcck, Togarmah Jones, and John Guerney, being fifteen of the prefent Court of Affiftants of the faid United Company, and fuch nine other Perfons as ihall hereafter be elected and appointed for that Purpofe in purfuance of this Act, and as is herein after mentioned, fhall be and they are hereby conftituted and appointed the Court of Af- fiftants of the Company of Barbers, made, eftablifhed, and incorporated by this Act; and fhall continue in, and hold, enjoy and exercife the faid Office during their natural Lives refpetively, or until they ihall be refpectively removed out of the faid Office, purfuant and according to the faid By-laws, Rules, Ordinances and Conftitutions of the faid Company of Barbers of London. Time and Place of Meeting, John "l Jones, and John Guerney, br the major Part of them, to meet at or in the Hall now belonging to the faid United Company, fitua'te in Monkwell-Jlreet in the City of London, on the twenty-fifth Day of June one thoufand feven hundred and forty-five, between the Hours of Nine in the Morning and One in the Af- ternoon of the fame Day, and then and there to elect, choofe and appoint out of the Freedom of the faid Company or Corporation cf the Barbers of London, eftablifhed and incorporated by this Act, by the to make op the Majority of the Votes of fuch of the faid fifteen Perfons laft mentioned, who fhall be prefent at fuch Court of Aflift- Meeting, fo many other Perfons to be of the faid Court of Affiftants of the faid Company or Corpora- ants of the Bar- t; on f t }je Barbers of London, as will make the Number twenty-four, to continue in the faid Office re- b K r3 ^ 0n j Pany ' fpectively for and during their natural Lives, or until they fhall be refpectively removed out of the feud the4 ' Office; and alfo that immediately after fuch Court of Affiftants fhall be made up the faid Number of twenty-four Perfons, the faid Court of Affiftants ihall then and there, by the Majority of Votes of fuch
- nd to eteflthe of the faid Court of Affiftants as ihall be then prefent, elect, choofe and appoint from among themfclves,
third and fourth two Pepfons, to be the third and fourth Governors of the faid Company or Corporation of the Barbers Governors. f London, to continue in, hold, exercife and enjoy the faid Offices refpectively as aforefaid. Anv two of the XV. And it is hereby further enacted, That it fhall and may be lawful for the Mafter and Governors Mafter and Go- for the Time being of the faid Company or Corporation of Barbers, or any two o. more of them, with cer.nnrs, vyith eleven or more of the Members of the faid Court of Affiftants for the Time being, when and as often as Afiifiaats may to two ol - morc f the faid Mafter and Governors ihall feem meet, to hold Courts or Affemblies at or in hold Courts j { ^. e £j a ,j G p t | )e j—^ C om p an y f or the Time being, in order to treat and confult about the Rule, State, an4 matte or re- Order and Government of the faid Company or Corporation of Barbers; and alfo that it fhall and may jcui By-laws,, be lawful to and for the faid Mafter and Governors, and Court of Affiftants fo alfcmbled, or the major &«■► Part of them, to make,. conititutCj ordairii eftivblUh, ratify and confirm all or any fuch By-laws, Or- dinances*
