8. Vacancies in Council to be 8. THAT all vacancies which shall from henceforth occur in the Council filled up on the of the said College, either by reason of any of the Members thereof going first Thursday out of Office by rotation or from any other cause, shall be filled up in in July (or within one manner hereinafter mentioned on the first Thursday in the month of July in every year, or within one Calendar Month afterwards, unless at any month), unless Members of Council shall be reduced below eighteen, vacancies to be time the number of Members of the said Council shall be reduced below eighteen, in which case it shall be lawful for the Council of the said Colin which case lege to appoint such day for filling up the vacancies as they may think filled up at such proper: and that the Council of the said College shall cause a notice of time as Council the day appointed for the election of Members into the Council to supply shall appoint. 9. Candidates for Seats in Council to transmit certain Notices, the vacancies occasioned either by Members going out of office by rotation, or by any other cause, and of the number of vacancies to be filled up, to be advertized in the London Gazette' at such time as the Council shall from time to time direct, before the day appointed for such Election, and shall also cause such notice to be published or announced in such other manner as the said Council may from time to time direct. 9. THAT every eligible Fellow who shall intend to offer himself as a Candidate for a Seat in the Council of the said College shall within such time as the Council shall from time to time direct from the publication of the London Gazette,' in which the day of Election shall be announced, Nominations, Certificates and transmit or deliver to the Secretary of the said College a notice signed by Declarations. himself of such his intention, together with a nomination signed by six Fellows of such person as a fit person to be elected into the Council, and a Certificate that he is in the bona fide practice of his Profession as a Surgeon, and that he does not practise as an Apothecary, which Certificate shall be signed by three Fellows of the said College; and the person so intending to offer himself as a Candidate for the Council shall at the same time transmit or deliver to the said Secretary a Declaration signed by himself, that he is in the bona fide practice of his Profession as a Surgeon, and that he does not practise as an Apothecary; and such Nomination and Certificate, and also such Declaration as last aforesaid, shall be in such form as the Council of the said College shall from time to time direct. 10. Fellows nominating a greater number of Candi 10. THAT no Fellow shall have power to nominate at any one election any greater number of persons as Candidates for the Council than the dates for Coun- number of vacancies which shall be to be filled up at such Election; and cies to be filled if any Fellow shall at any such Election nominate any greater number of up, incapaciCandidates than as last aforesaid, then such Fellow shall be incapacitated ing at Election. from voting at that Election. cil than vacan tated from vot 11. Member Council not t go out of Off by rotation whilst Presi dent, but to next Annual Election-and 11. THAT no Member of Council shall go out of Office by rotation whilst holding the Office of President; and that as often as it shall happen that the President shall be one of the Members who would at any Annual Meeting go out of Office by rotation, two Members of Council only, instead of three as prescribed by the Charter, shall be elected at such Meeting out of Office and that at the next Annual Meeting such Member shall go out of Office in addition to any other Members of Council going out of Office by rotation according to our said Letters Patent-but any Member whose going out of Office shall have been postponed as above provided, shall in case of his re-election into the Council on his going out of Office at such succeeding Annual Meeting as aforesaid, on all future occasions go out of Office in the same order as if he had been re-elected at the time when he would, but for this provision, have gone out of Office. on future occ sions to go o of Office as if he had gone οι of office while President. 12. Lists of Candidates eli gible to Council, together with names of 12. That the Council of the said College shall cause lists of the names of all eligible Fellows of the said College who shall in manner hereinbefore directed be nominated as Candidates for the Council, and shall have complied with the provisions herein before contained respecting the Notice, Certificate and Declaration to be transmitted to the Secretary of the said College, together with the names of the Fellows by whom they shall respectively be so nominated, to be published in the London Gazette' and in two London Daily Newspapers, at such time before the day appointed Daily Newsfor the Election as the Council shall from time to time direct. Fellows by whom nominated, to be published in Gazette and in two London papers. announcement at Election of 13. THAT henceforth, instead of the name of every Fellow eligible to 13. Mode of be elected being announced to the Meeting in the order and according to the priority in which his name shall stand in the Register of Fellows, as names of Candirected by our said Letters Patent, the names of all Fellows included in the Lists so published as aforesaid, shall be announced to the Meeting as the Candidates for Election. 14. THAT the names of the Members of the Council who shall in each year retire from Office by rotation, shall, if they shall be desirous of reelection, and shall intimate such their desire in writing to the Secretary of the said College within such period as the Council shall determine before the day appointed for the Election, be placed at the head of the Lists of Candidates to be published as hereinbefore directed; and that such persons, if re-elected into the Council, shall take precedence of all other persons didates. 14. Names of Members re tiring from Council by rotation and desirous of reelection to be placed at the head of List of Candidates. 15. Required Certificate and Declaration to be conclusive to Council, but if afterwards they shall appear untrue or fraudulent, lawful for the Council to declare the Member of who shall be elected into the Council on the same day, and shall with respect to each other take precedence according to their former seniority in the Council. 15. THAT any Nomination and Certificate or Declaration herein before required to be made or produced upon or previously to the election of any Fellow into the Council of the said College, being transmitted or delivered as to eligibility in the manner hereinbefore required, the same (as regards the matters or particulars so to be certified and declared as aforesaid, but no further) shall be final and conclusive as to the eligibility of such Fellow. But if it shall afterwards appear to the satisfaction of the Council of the said College that any such Nomination or Certificate or Declaration is in any respect untrue or fraudulent, then it shall be lawful for the Council of the said College to declare the Member of the Council, to whom such Nomination and Certificate may relate, or by whom such Declaration may have been made, to be no longer a Member of the said Council; and thereupon every such Member of the Council of the said College shall cease to be such Member thereof, and shall forfeit all his rights and privileges as such Member thereof; and it shall be lawful for the Council of the said College to declare the place of such Member in the Council to be vacant, and the same shall be filled up in manner hereinbefore directed respecting Vacancies in the said Council. Council to be no longer a Member, and thereupon such Member shall cease to be a Member of Council. 16. Examiners 16. THAT every Fellow of the said College who shall from henceforth hereafter elect be elected to the Office of Examiner of the said College, shall go out of ed to go out of office at end of office at the end of Five Years from the day of his election; but that it shall be lawful for the Council of the said College immediately to re-elect such person to the said office, and every such person being so re-elected, shall take precedence in the Court of Examiners, according to his former standing as a Member thereof. Five Years, but to take prece- 17. Board of Examiners in Midwifery for testing the fit ness of persons to practise Midwifery to 17. AND IT IS OUR FURTHER WILL AND PLEASURE, That a Board of Examiners be appointed by the said College for the purpose of testing the fitness of persons to practise in Midwifery, and of granting Certificates of such fitness; and that such Board: shall consist of not less than Three persons. AND WE DO HEREBY AUTHORIZE AND REQUIRE the Council of the said College, within Twelve Months from the date of these our Letters Persons, to be Patent, to appoint not less than Three persons to be such Examiners in consist of not less than Three within Twelve Months. Midwifery, who shall continue in office for such period, and shall conduct appointed the examinations in such manner, and shall grant Certificates in such form. as the Council of the said College shall determine and from time to time direct. And it shall be lawful for the Council of the said College, from time to time, as vacancies shall occur in such last-mentioned Board of Examiners, to appoint any persons to fill up the same. 18. AND WE DO HEREBY FURTHER DECLARE OUR WILL AND PLEASURE TO BE, That all and every direction, provision, regulation, clause, matter or thing whatsoever, in the said several recited Letters Patent of our Royal Predecessors and Ourselves, or in any Bye-Laws, or Bye-Law of the said College, contained, which may be repugnant to or inconsistent, or at variance with the several directions, provisions, and regulations herein contained, or any of them, in so far as the same are repugnant thereto, inconsistent or at variance therewith, shall be, and the same are hereby abrogated, repealed, and rendered of none effect. But that, except in the respects hereby altered, the said College and the Council of the same shall continue to have all such, and the same jurisdiction, powers, authorities, and discretions for and with respect to the Government of the said College, and the election and choice of the Officers of the same, as well as the admission and expulsion of Members and Fellows, and for the making, ordaining, confirming, annulling, or revoking Bye-Laws, Ordinances, Rules, and Constitutions, and transacting and ordaining all other matters and things whatsoever, for the regulation, government, and advantage of the said College, as such College and the Council thereof respectively now have, under or by virtue of the said three several hereinbefore recited Charters or Letters Patent, or either of them respectively, or in any other lawful manner. AND WE DO HEREBY for Us, Our Heirs and Successors, grant and confirm unto them all such jurisdictions, powers, authorities and discretions accordingly. AND WE DO HEREBY for Us, Our Heirs and Successors, further grant unto the said College, that these, our Letters Patent, or the enrolment or exemplification thereof, shall be in and by all things, good, firm, valid, sufficient and effectual in the Law, according to the true intent and meaning thereof, notwithstanding the not fully or not duly reciting the said several Letters Patent, or the dates thereof, or any other omission, imperfection, defect, matter, cause or thing whatsoever, the same or any Rule or Law to the contrary thereof, in anywise notwithstanding. In witness whereof We have caused these Our Letters to be made Patent. Witness Ourself at Our Palace at Westminster, this Eighteenth day of March in the Fifteenth year of Our Reign. By Her Majesty's Command, EDMUNDS. Recital-That the porated or re-es III. Recital That were granted by 23RD VICTORIA. 8TH SEPTEMBER, 1859. VICTORIA, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Queen, Defender of the Faith, To ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME GREETING, WHEREAS the Body Politic and Corporate of THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS IN LONDON was incorporated or re-established under or College was incor- by virtue of a certain Charter or Letters Patent, bearing date at Westtablished by Char- minster the Twenty-second day of March in the Fortieth year of the Reign of ter of 40th George King George the Third, or otherwise as in such Letters Patent mentioned or referred to, and further powers and privileges were granted to the said further powers College by a certain other or Supplemental Charter granted by Letters Charter of 3rd Patent, bearing date at Westminster the Thirteenth day of February in the George IV. Third Year of the Reign of King George the Fourth. And by our Letters Patent, bearing date at Westminster the Fourteenth day of September in the Seventh year of our Reign, the name or style of the said College was altered to "The Royal College of Surgeons of England," by which name or style the said College is now called or known, and divers further powers and privileges were granted to the said College by our said Letters Patent. And by our further Letters Patent, bearing date at Westminster the Eighteenth day of March in the Fifteenth year of our Reign, divers further powers and privileges were granted to the said College, and alterations were in certain of the provisions and regulations contained in the said former Letters Patent of Ourself and our Royal Predecessors: and the said College is now regulated and governed by and according to the provisions of the said Recital--Of go- several Charters or Letters Patent, and also by or according to certain Bye-Laws and Ordinances made by the said College for its regulation and better government. name of the Col. lege was altered and divers fur ther powers were granted by Char ter of 7th Victoria. Recital-That di vers other powers were granted by Charter of 15th vernment constitution the College. and of |