Report of the evidence in the case of John Stephen Bartlett, M.D. versus the Mass. Medical Society, as given before a committee of the Legislature, at the session of 1839 / [John Stephen Bartlett].

  • Bartlett, John Stephen, 1812-1840.
Date:
1839
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Credit: Report of the evidence in the case of John Stephen Bartlett, M.D. versus the Mass. Medical Society, as given before a committee of the Legislature, at the session of 1839 / [John Stephen Bartlett]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    obj ect and protest, that the honorable the General Court have no power to annul, or alter, or in any manner im¬ pair the charter of said society, and against the exercise or attempted exercise of any such power. And said society interpose this objection and protest from a solemn sense of duty to their founders and to posterity, lest any acquiescence now should be drawn into precedent hereaf¬ ter, and not from any want of entire confidence in the present General Court, or any reluctance to meet the said petition or application of said Bartlett. And if the honorable the General Court shall overrule this objection and protest, and, notwithstanding the same, require the said society to answer to said petition or application of said Bartlett, they will hold themselves in readiness to do so at the earliest practicable time, not, however, waiv¬ ing, nor in any manner impairing, this objection and protest. Boston, March 20, 1839. JAMES JACKSON, GEO. C. SHATTUCK, RUFUS WYMAN, JOHN HOMANS, S. D. TOWNSEND, A. L. PEIRSON, Committee. The Society did not, Mr. S. remarked, by entering this protest, wish to be understood as desiring to evade or elude investigation, if the Committee thought proper to pursue it. They were ready and willing to go into a thorough examination of the affair. They put in this protest chiefly to maintain a reserved right, to be availed of in future, if found necessary.