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14th December 1784 - 7th December 1786

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and who already have been or hereafter shall be examined and approved
pursuant to the Rules and Orders of the said Company and every of them
for so long time as he and they shall use and exercise the said Art
or Science of Surgery and no longer shall and may at all times hereafter
be freed and exempted from the several Officer of Constable Scavenger
Overseer of the Poor and all other Parish Ward & Leet Offices and of &
from the being put into or serving upon any Jury or Inquest And if
at any time hereafter any such Person or Persons using and practising
the said Art or Science of Surgery and being qualified as aforesaid
shall be chosen and elected into any of the said Offices or return'd requir'd
or appointed to serve on any Jury Leet or Inquest or be disquieted or
disturbed by reason thereof that Then such Person or Persons producing
a Testimonial under the Common Seal of the said Corporation of such his
Examination Approbation and Freedom to the Person or Persons by whom
he shall be so elected or appointed or by or before whom he shall be summoned
returned or required to serve or hold any of the said Offices or Duties shall
be absolutely discharged from the same and such Nomination Election Return
and Appointment shall be utterly void and of none effect any Order Custom
Law or Statute to the contrary in anywise notwithstanding

The Act then proceeds to incorporate such of the Members of the
united Company who are Freemen thereof and not admitted or approved
Surgeons by the Name & Title of the Master Governors Etc. of the Mystery
of Barbers and Int. alia Enacts That the Master Governors & Comalty
of the Mystery of Barbers London hereby made established & incorporated
as aforesaid and their Successors and all Persons who shall be free of the
same Company or Corporation shall & may from time to time and at all
times for ever hereafter have hold & enjoy all & every such & the same
Liberties Priviledges Franchises Powers & Authorities as the sd. united
Company or Corporation with respect to every thing but Surgery and
the Members of the said united Company occupying the Feat or Craft
of Barbery or shaving could or might respectively have had held &
enjoyed by Virtue of the sd: recited Act of union or Incorporation and
Letters Patents of his late Majesty King Charles the first and other
the Royal Grants Charters & Patents therein respectively mentioned & referred




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