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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]

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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cafe the annual produce is not fufficient for de¬ fraying the an¬ nual burdens. [ 18 ] excefs or fur plus, lhall be lent out toge¬ ther with the forefaid fum£, for the pur- other hand, if in any one year the an^- nual produce dial! not be fufficient for defraying the annual burdens as afore- faid, yet no incroachment ffiall on that account be made upon the capital fo far as then raifed, nor ffiall the further rai¬ ling thereof, in manner above directed, be thereby flopped or retarded ; but fuch deficiency or ffiort-coming, ffiall firft af- * A < i fe6l the childrens provifions proportional¬ ly, and then the annuities of all the widows proportionally, without regard to the order of time in which thofe provifions became due, and the fame ffiall again be made good to them, out of the furplus of the annual produce, for the fucceed- ing year or years in this order, viz. }.ft. After payment of the expence of manage¬ ment, and of the fum to be applied for railing the flock or capital as afore- faid, the widows annuities unpaid in the preceding

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