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 hundred and forty-five, be, and the same is hereby dissolved, vacated and declared to be void and of no Effect, and that such of the Members of the said united Company or Corporation, who are Freemen of the said Company, and admitted and approved Surgeons within the Rules of the said Company and Corporation, and their Successors, shall from thenceforth be made, and they are hereby made and constituted a separate and distinct Body Corporate, and Commonalty perpetual, which, at all Times thereafter, shall be called by the Name of Masters, Governors and Commonalty of the Art and Science of Surgeons of London; and by the same Name, shall and may implead and be impleaded before all Manner of Justices in all Courts and in all Manner of Actions and Suits, and purchase, enjoy and take to them, and their Successors, any Lands, Tenements, Rents or Hereditaments, not exceeding the yearly Rent or Value of two hundred Pounds in the whole, without incurring any of the Penalties or Forfeitures of the Statutes of Mortmain.

II. And it is hereby further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That it shall and may be lawful to and for the said Company or Corporation herein before established and incorporated, from time to time, in the Manner herein after mentioned, to elect, choose, and appoint one principal Master or Governor, two other Governors or Wardens, ten Examiners of Surgeons, and twenty-one Persons to be the Court of Assistants of the said Company or Corporation, to be respectively qualified and admitted in such Manner, and to continue in the said Offices respectively, for such Time and Times respectively, as by the By-laws, Rules, Ordinances, and Constitutions of the said Company or Corporation, shall be, from time to time, ordered, directed, provided and appointed.

III. And it is hereby further enacted, That it shall and may be lawful to and for the Master and Governors of the said Company or Corporation for the Time being, or any two of them, with nine or more of the Members of the said Court of Assistants of the same Company for the Time