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Charter under the Great Seal, in favours [sic] of the College and Corporation of Surgeons of the City of Edinburgh, incorporating them, of new, under the name and title of the Royal College of Surgeons of the City of Edinburgh, and authorizing them to carry into execution a scheme for making a provision for the widows and children of the members of the Corporation, and their clerk.

  • Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh.
Date:
M,DCC,LXXVIII. [1778]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Charter under the Great Seal, in favours [sic] of the College and Corporation of Surgeons of the City of Edinburgh, incorporating them, of new, under the name and title of the Royal College of Surgeons of the City of Edinburgh, and authorizing them to carry into execution a scheme for making a provision for the widows and children of the members of the Corporation, and their clerk. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    And fuch addi¬ tional fum as their Funds can afford. [ io ] mas in all time coming: Therefore We approve of the payments already made, and authorife decreets, and appoint the faid annual payments out of the Corpo¬ ration-funds to be made in future agree¬ able to the preceding article: And that in cafe at any time hereafter, it fhall ap¬ pear to the Members of the Corporation at a General Meeting, to which they fhall be regularly^ fummoned by a billet left at their refpeftive houfes, at leaft two days previous to the meeting, That the funds of the Corporation are more than fuffici- ent in any one year to maintain their poor, to defray their other neceffary ex- pences, and to pay the aforefaid fum of L. 25 Sterling; they {hall appoint the Treafurer to pay the Collector of the Scheme fuch additional fum for that year as they fhall judge proper, it being al¬ ways underftood, and exprefsly provided, That no order fhall be iffued for fuch ad- ditional payment unlefs three-fourths of the Members are prefent. And Ordain- mg