Acts of incorporation, and acts regulating the practice of physic and surgery : with the by-laws and orders of the Massachusetts Medical Society.

  • Massachusetts Medical Society.
Date:
1826
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Credit: Acts of incorporation, and acts regulating the practice of physic and surgery : with the by-laws and orders of the Massachusetts Medical Society. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    Crouch Kellogg, John Lynn, James Lloyd, Joseph Orne, James Pecker, Oliver Prescott, Charles Pynchon, Isaac Rand, Isaac Rand, Jun., Micajah Sawyer, John Sprague, Charles Stockbridge, John Barnard Swett, Cotton Tufts, John Warren, Thomas Welsh, Joseph Whipple, and William Whiting, be, and they hereby are, formed into, constituted, and made a body politic and corpo- rate, by the name of ■ The Massachusetts Medi- cal Society f and that they and their successors, and such other persons as shall be elected in the manner hereafter mentioned, shall be and con- tinue a body politic and corporate, by the same name, for ever. 2. And be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the fellows of said society may, from time to time, elect a president, vice president, and secretary, with other officers as they shall judge necessary and convenient; and they, the fellows of said society, shall have full power and author- ity, from time to time, to determine and establish the names, number, and duty of their several offi- cers, and the tenure or estate they shall respec- tively have in their offices; and also to authorise and empower their president, or some other offi- cer, to administer such oaths to such officers, as they, the fellows of said society, shall appoint and determine for the w7ell ordering and good gov- ernment of said society, provided the same be not repugnant to the laws of this commonwealth.