Third report from the Select Committee on Medical Registration and Medical Law amendment : together with the minutes of evidence and appendix.

  • Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee on Medical Registration and Medical Law Amendment.
Date:
1848
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    We do hereby for Us, Our heirs and successors, further grant unto the said college, that these Our Letters Patent, and the enrolment and exemplification thereof, shall be in and by all things good and effectual in the law, notwithstanding the not fully or not duly reciting the said Letters Patent, or the date thereof, or any other omission, imperfection or cause whatsoever. In witness whereof, We have caused these Our Letters to be made Patent. Witness Ourself, at Westminster, the day of in the year of Our reign. Appendix, No. 8. A BILL for enabling Her Majesty to grant New Charters to certain Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons. Whereas the Commonalty or Fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians in London was incorporated by Letters Patent, bearing date at Westminster, the twenty-third day of September, in the tenth year of the reign of King Henry the Eighth, which Letters Patent were confirmed by an Act passed in the Session of Parliament holden in the fourteenth and fifteenth years of the reign of King Henry the Eighth, intituled, “The Privileges and Authority of Physicians in London;” and by the said Act certain other powers and privi- leges were granted to the said Commonalty: And whereas since the making of the said Letters Patent divers other Charters have been granted to the said college: And whereas it is expedient that certain changes should be made in the constitution of the said college, and particularly that new regulations should be made for the election of the officers of the said college, and that the present number of the members of the said college should be in- creased : And whereas the said college is willing that such changes should be made; but the same cannot be effected without the authority of Parliament; be it enacted, by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, that it shall be lawful for the said corporation to surrender all the Charters which have been heretofore granted to them other than the said Charter of King Henry the Eighth, and also so much and such part of the last-mentioned Charter as shall be in anywise inconsistent with or repugnant to any new Charter to be granted to them by Her Majesty ; and that it shall be lawful for Her Majesty to grant, and for the said corporation to accept, any new Charter or Charters, for making from time to time such alterations as shall be deemed by Her Majesty expedient in the name and constitution of the said corporation ; and further, that when and so soon as the said corporation, under their common seal, shall have accepted any such new Charter, the acceptance thereof shall operate as a surrender of all the other Charters heretofore granted to the said corporation, except the said Charter of King Henry the Eighth, and as a repeal of the said Act of Parliament, so far as the same shall be incon- sistent with or repugnant to such new Charter. And whereas the Society and Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh was incorporated by Letters Patent, bearing date at Whitehall, the twenty-ninth day of November, in the thirty-third year of the reign of King Charles the Second, which Letters Patent, together with all acts, decreets and sentences of his Majesty’s Privy Council, or of the Lords of Session, or of any other judicatory within that kingdom, conceived in favour of the Royal College of Physicians for making the patent above written and privileges therein con- tained effectual, were confirmed by an Act of the Scottish Parliament passed in the year One thousand six hundred and eighty-five: And whereas it is expedient that certain changes should be made in the constitution of the said college, and the said college is willing that such changes should be made, but the same cannot be effected without the authority of Par- liament; be it enacted, that it shall be lawful for the said college to surrender their said Charter, and that it shall be lawful for Her Majesty to grant, and for the said college to accept, any new Charter or Charters, for making from time to time such alterations as shall be deemed by Her Majesty expedient in the name and constitution of the said college; and further, that when and as soon as the said college, under their common seal, shall have accepted any such new Charter, the acceptance thereof shall operate as a repeal of the said Act of the Scottish Parliament, and as a revocation of the said Charter of King Charles the Second, so far as the same shall be inconsistent with or repugnant to such new Charter. And whereas by the municipal constitution of the city of Edinburgh, the surgeons’ or chirurgeons’ craft forms one of the fourteen Incorporated Trades of that city, and the mem- bers or fellows of the said craft are entitled to elect a deacon of craft to represent them in the convenery of the said city : And whereas it is expedient that the connexion of the sur- geons with the Incorporated Trades, and the convenery and municipal corporation of the city should cease; be it enacted, that if Her Majesty shall be pleased to grant a new Char- ter to the Royal College of Surgeons at Edinburgh, wherein it shall be granted that there shall no longer be a surgeons’ or a chirurgeons’ craft, forming one of the Incorporated Trades of the city of Edinburgh, then upon the grant and acceptance of the said Charter to and by the said Royal College, the Incorporated Trades of the said city shall consist of thirteen only ; and it shall not be lawful for the surgeons or chirurgeons to elect a Deacon of Craft, or to be represented in any way in-the convenery, or to have any voice in the election of Deacon Convenor, but the deacons of the remaining thirteen Incorporated Trades only shall compose the convenery, and shall elect the Deacon Convenor, and shall exercise the powers now in use to be exercised by the deacons of the fourteen Incorporated Trades; and all municipal privileges belonging to and now enjoyed by the members of the 702. 3 C surgeons’ Preamble. New Charter may be granted to the Royal College of Physicians in London. New Charter may be granted to the Royal College of Physicians of Edin- burg] 1. New Charter may l>e granted to the Royal College of Surgeons at Edin- burgh.