The charter, bye-laws & regulations, and the Acts of Parliament especially relating thereto.

  • Royal College of Physicians, London
Date:
1862
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    tlie Physicians may act without. Persons resisting to forfeit ,£10. Magistrates must aid and assist. 14 & 15 Hen. YIII. recited 12 An Act to enable the President, §c., his College elect as aforesaid, do call upon him or them, that then the said Physicians may and shall execute that search and view, and the due punishment of the Poticaries for any their evil and faulty stuff, according to the statute last before mentioned, without the assistance of any of the said Wardens; any clause in the aforenamed statute to the contrary hereof notwithstanding. And every such person or persons as will or shall resist such search, shall forfeit, for every such resistance, £10, the same penalty to be recovered in form aforesaid, without any of the delays aforesaid to be had in suit thereof.” “ And further be it enacted: That all justices, mayors, sheriffs, bailiffs, constables, and other ministers and officers within the city and precincts above written, upon request to them made, shall help, aid, and assist the President of the said College, and all persons by them from time to time authorized for the due execution of the said acts or statutes, upon pain, for not giving of such aid, help, and assistance, to run in contempt of the Queen's Majesty, her heirs and successors.” 54 Geo. III., c. 118. An Act to enable the President and College or Commonalty of the Faculty of Physic, in London, to hold their Corporate Meetings within the City of Westminster, or the Liberties thereof [17th June, 1814.] “ Whereas, by an Act of Parliament, made and passed in the fourteenth and fifteenth years of the reign of his Majesty King Henry the Eighth, intituled The Privileges and Authorities of Physicians in London, certain letters patent, bearing date at Westminster, the twenty-third day of September, in the tenth year of the reign of his said Majesty King Henry the Eighth,
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