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Science of Surgery, and which on the said twenty-third Day of June shall be subsisting and in Force, and shall not be repealed, annulled or abrogated by virtue of this present Act, shall continue and be in Force, and shall be exercised, observed and executed by the said Company of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until such Time and Times respectively as the same By-laws, Ordinances, Rules and Constitutions shall respectively be repealed, annulled and made void, by Virtue and under the Authority of this present Act.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 of the Person so deceased or removed; and the Person so nominated or elected shall continue in, hold and exercise the said Office for and during his natural Life, or until he shall be removed out of the same.
XVIII. And it is hereby further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That the Master, Governors and Commonalty of the Mystery of Barbers of London, hereby made, established and incorporated as aforesaid, and their Successors, and all Persons who shall be free 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 said United Company or Corporation, with respect to every Thing but Surgery, and the Members of the said United Company, occupying the Feat or Craft of Barbery or Shaving, could or might respectively have had, held and enjoyed by virtue of the said recited Act of Union or Incorporation, and Letters Patents of his late Majesty King Charles the First, and other the Royal Grants, Charters and Patents therein respectively mentioned and referred to, so far as the same do not concern or relate to the Art and Science of Surgery; and that in as full, ample and beneficial Manner, to all Intents and Purposes, as if the same had been expressly repeated, set down, and enacted in and by this present Act.
XIX. And it is hereby further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That the Sum of five hundred and ten Pounds now vested in the said United Company, and which was given and paid to the said United Company by Edward Arris, for the Use of the publick Anatomy Lectures on the Muscles, and also the Annuity or yearly Rent-charge of sixteen Pounds given to the said United Company by the Will of John Gale Gentleman, for one Anatomy Lecture, by the name of Gale’s Anatomy, and charged upon certain Messuages and Tenements at Snow Hill, in the Parish of Saint Sepulchre, without Newgate, London, shall from and after the said twenty-fourth Day of June one thousand seven hundred and forty-five, be vested in, and be deemed the sole Property, Estate and Effects of the said Company and Corporation of Surgeons established and incorporated by this Act; and that the said Sum of five hundred and ten Pounds be accordingly paid by the said Company or Corporation of Barbers of London, out of the Estate and Effects of and now belonging to the said United Company or Corporation, within three Months next after the said twenty-fourth Day of June; and that the said Sum of five hundred and ten Pounds, and the said Annuity or yearly Rent-charge of sixteen Pounds per Annum, shall be held and enjoyed by the Purposes intended by the Donors thereof respectively; and that from and after the Payment of the said five hundred and ten Pounds by the said Company of Barbers to the said Company of Surgeons, they the said Master, Governors and Commonalty of the Mystery of Barbers of London, and their Successors, shall for ever be discharged of and from the said Sum or Gift of five hundred and ten Pounds, and every Part thereof, and of and from the said Annuity or Gift of sixteen Pounds per Annum, and every Part thereof, and of and from all Duties and Trusts in respect of the said Gifts, or either of them; and shall, from time to time, be saved harmless and kept indemnified by the said Company of Surgeons, of, from and against the same, and all Actions, Suits, Charges and Expenses which they the said Master, Governors and Commonalty of the Mystery of Barbers of London, or their Successors, shall or may, from time to time, be put unto or sustain on account thereof; and all the Rest and Residue of the Real and Personal Estate and Effects of and belonging to the said United Company or Corporation, and the Arms or Ensigns Armorial of the same Company or Corporation, shall from and after the said twenty-fourth Day of June one thousand seven hundred and forty-five, be vested in, and the same are hereby from thenceforth vested in the said Company or Corporation of Barbers of London, and their Successors, to and for their own sole and separate Use and Benefit for ever.
XX. And it is hereby further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That such of the Books, Papers and Writings which now belong to the said United Company of Barbers and Surgeons, and relate to or concern the Surgeons or Surgery only, shall immediately after the said first Day of July one thousand seven hundred and forty-five, be delivered by the said Company of Barbers, established and incorporated by this Act, to the Master and Governors, and Court of Assistants, of the said Company of Surgeons established and incorporated by this Act, or such other Person or Persons as they, or the major Part of them shall, by Writing under their Hands appoint to receive the same, for the use and Benefit of the said Company of Surgeons: And that the Master, Governors, and Courts of Assistants of the same Company of Surgeons, or any of them, or such other Person or Persons as they, or the major Part of them shall, by Writing under their Hands appoint, shall and may, from time to time, and at all seasonable Times, upon reasonable Notice, from and after the first Day of July one thousand seven hundred and forty-five have free Access to, and Liberty to inspect and peruse, in the Hands of such Person or Persons as the said Company of Barbers shall appoint to have the Care and Custody thereof, all the rest of the Books, Papers and Writings, and also all the Charters and Deeds which now belong to the said United Company of Barbers and Surgeons; and from time to time to take such Copies or Extracts of or from the same, or any of them, as the said Master, Governors, and Court of Assistants of the said Company of Surgeons, or the major Part of them, or such other Person or Persons so to be appointed as aforesaid, shall from time to time desire or require; and also that the said Company of Barbers shall, from time to time, and at all Times, upon reasonable Notice, from and after the said first Day of July, produce the said last mentioned Books, Papers, Writings, Charters and Deeds, or any of them, at the Expense of the said Company of Surgeons, upon any Trial at Law, or Hearing in Equity, or Examination of Witnesses, or otherwise, where the said Company of Surgeons shall have Occasion to make use thereof, or of any of them, and permit the said Company of Surgeons to make use of the same accordingly.
XXI. Provided always, and it is hereby further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That every Person who hath been bound Apprentice to any Member of the said United Company, and by the Laws or Custom of the City of London, or otherwise, is or would be intitled to his Freedom of the said United Company, and to the Freedom of the said City, in case this present Act had never been made, shall be intitled and admitted to his Freedom in the said Company or Corporation of Surgeons, if his Master is or was an examined Surgeon, or else to his Freedom in the said Company of Barbers; and in either Case shall be intitled and admitted to his Freedom in the said City of London; any Law, Usage or Custom to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding.
XXII. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That this Act shall be deemed, adjudged and taken to be a Publick Act; and be judicially taken Notice of as such by all Judges, Justices, and other Persons whatsoever, without specially pleading the same.
55. Geo. 3. c. 194.
An Act, for better regulating the Practice of Apothecaries throughout England and Wales.
Whereas His Majesty King James the First, by Letters Patent, under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date the Sixth Day of December, in the Fifteenth Year of His Reign, did for himself, his Heirs and Successors, grant unto William Beese, and divers other Persons therein named, and to all and singular other Persons whomsoever, brought up and skilful ¡n the Art, Mystery, or Faculty of Apothecaries, and exercising the same Art, Mystery, or Faculty then, being Freemen of the Mystery of Grocers of the City of London, or being Freemen of any other Art, Mystery, or Faculty in the said City of London (so as they had been brought up and were expert in the Art or Mystery of Apothecaries), that they, and all such Men of the said Art or Mystery of Apothecaries of and in the said City of London and Suburbs of the same, and within Seven Miles of the said City, might and should be one Body Corporate and Politic, in Substance, Deed, and Name, by the Name of the Master, Wardens, and Society of the Art and Mystery of Apothecaries of the City of London; and did ordain and declare, that by the same name they might have perpetual Succession, and have, purchase, possess, enjoy, and retain Manors, Messuages, Lands, Tenements, Liberties, Privileges, Franchises, Jurisdictions, and Hereditaments to them and their Successors, in fee simple and perpetuity, or for term of year or years, or otherwise, howsoever. And also Goods and Chattels, and all other things soever, of what name, nature, kind, quality, or sort soever they should be. And also, that they might grant, demise, alien, assign, and dispose of Manors, Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments, and do and execute all and singular other Acts and things by the said name. And that by the said name of Master, Wardens, and Society of the Art and Mystery of Apothecaries of the City of London, they should and might be able to plead and be impleaded, and might have for ever a common Seal; and the same Seal at their pleasure from time to time might break, change, alter, and new make, as to them should seem best. And his said Majesty did, by his said Letters Patent, ordain and grant unto the said Master, Wardens, and Society of the Art and Mystery of Apothecaries aforesaid, certain Ordinances, Rules and Regulations, to be observed, kept, and maintained by them, as in the said Charter are more fully expressed.