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  • Exposition coloniale internationale de Paris (1931)
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[1931]
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    APPENDIX. The Ordinances of Barber Chirurgions.1 Whereas the Company of Barber Chirurgions of and within the City of Bristol hâve been anciently incorporated and made a Society and Fellowship, known and called by the name of the Master, Wardens and Company of Barber Surgeons of the City of Bristol, and by the same name may purchase lands and tenements to them and their successors, and sue and be sued, and do execute and perform ail other acts, deeds or things consonant and agreeable to law and reason as fully and absolutely for the better Reglement of the said Company as any other Company or Society may or might lawfully do within the said City. And whereas divers Ordinances, laws and constitutions heretofore made, granted and established for the welfare and government of the said Company and confirmed and approved by the Mayor, Aldermen and Com- mon Council of the said City, are now worn out, defaced and become illegible, and therefore [it is] fit and requisite they should be quickened and revived and the said Company ordered and enjoined to observe the same orders and government as formerly hath been used and accustomed. We therefore the Mayor, Aldermen and Common Council of the said City, at the humble suit and pétition of the said Master, Warden, and Company of Barber Chirurgions of the said City of Bristol, having taken the premises into considération, and finding the same to be true, do as much as in us lyeth, and according to the ancient use and custom of the said City time out of mind used, approved and allowed,'— re-establish, ratify, and confirm the said Company and Society of Barber Chirurgions of the said City, by the name of the Master, Warden and Company of the Barber Chirurgions of the City of Bristol, that by the same name of incorporation may sue and be sued, and be capable to purchase, hâve, receive and take lands, Tenements, or other hereditaments to them and their successors, and may from time to time make good and reasonable laws^ ordinances and constitutions agreeable to law and reason, the customs and privilèges of the said City, for the better order rule and government of the said Company and Society as to them from time to time shall seem meet and convenient. (1). And it is ordered, agreed and established that, as anciently hath been used, the said Master Wardens and Company of Barber Chirurgions of the said City shall yearly upon the iôth day of September, if it be not Sunday, or the next day following 9 1 Transcribed by permission from a copy preserved at Yate House.