Copy of the charter of the Glasgow Royal Infirmary; granted December 21, 1791.

  • Glasgow Royal Infirmary.
Date:
1792
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Copy of the charter of the Glasgow Royal Infirmary; granted December 21, 1791. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.

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    Suburbs, and are not under their regular and daily infpe&ion. That cer- tain charitable and well difpofed perfons, well affe&ed to his Majefty’s per'in and government, feeling for the miferable Hate of the difeafed poor, and defirous of contributing to their relief, have raifed a fum of Money, by voluntary fubfeription, to be applied, under certain Rules and Regulations, for the purpofe of erefting and fupporting an Infirmary in the City of Glaf- gow, where the fick poor may be collected together, and may have all the advantages of lodging, attendance, dief, medicine, and the abled advice and adiftance. 1 hat the Petitioner and the faid other Contributors, are advifed, and do mod firmly believe, that if they and all future Contributors were inveded with Corporate Powers, their charitable defign would be rendered more beneficial and extenfive, their funds greatly increafed, and would be more properly and with better fecurity applied ; And therefore mod humbly prayeth, that his Majedy would be gracioufly pleafed to grant, to the Contributors to the Glafgow Infirmary, his Royal Charter, incorpor- ating them, and their fucceflbrs, in the management of the affairs of the faid Infirmary, into a body politic and corporate, by the name of the GLASGOW ROYAL INFIRMARY, with a perpetual fucceffion, with powers to ufe a Common Seal, to fue and be fued, to purchafe Lands, make Bye Laws, and with all other neceflfary and ufual powers—His Ma- ]edy having taken the faid Petition into his Royal confideration, and being willing to give all proper encouragement to the faid Society, Therefore his Majedy, in compliance with the faid humble requed, and by virtue of his prerogative royal and of his fpecial grace, certain knowledge, and mere motion, ORDAINS a Charter to be made and palled, under the Seal ap- pointed by the Treaty of Union to be kept in Scotland, in place of the Great Seal thereof. Granting, Condituting, Declaring and appointing, as his Majedy by thefe prefents Grants, Conditutes, Declares and Appoints, that the faid James MacDowrall, Efquire, and all and every the Contribu- tors and Donors who have already fubferibed, or who diall hereafter con- tribute to the funds of the faid Society, diall be, and be called, one Corpo- ration and Body-corporate and politic, by the name and dile of the GLAS- GOW ROYAL INFIRMARY, and that they and their Succeflors diall forever hereafter have a perpetual Succefiion for the purpofes of the bet- ter and more effe<dually managing, directing, ordering and appointing in