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 class to be governed: but that is improbable; it is not to be supposed that, as the principal object of the charter was to incorporate those who were skilled in physic and to prevent those from practising who were unfit, they to whom the charter was offered would refuse the advantages of this corporation, especially as the obvious means of constituing a body to consist of all would be to make it compulsory on the physicians to become members, as in the case with companies in some city and corporate towns, of which persons carrying on certain trades are obliged to be free. But seeing that there is in some degree an uncertainty as to the words "homnes ejusdem facultatis," the usage that has prevailed ought to govern us in the construction of them, especially as the usage perfectly accords with the design of the incorporation. It is said indeed that the usage is in favour of Dr. Stanger's claim: but that is not so; for there is no proof that before these bye-laws were made any persons were admitted into the body as a matter of right, and we must therefore take it that they came in by election. If Dr. Stanger claim as a matter of right, it must be under the words of the charter "quod ipsi omnesque homines ejusdem facultatis &c:" but if this gave him a right, the college could not resist his claim though he would not submit to examination. And if every homo ejusdem facultatis came within this description of claim, Dr. Archer would have had a right to be admitted. The charter does not say that all the men of the faculty, who on examination shall be found fit, shall be admitted; if it has said any thing in their favor, it has given them the right as soon as they become men of the faculty; it has directed no examination. Suppose by a charter all the weavers of a town were incorporated, they would all have a right to be admitted without any examination. If then all the men of the faculty within the limited district have a right from being men of the faculty, they possess all the fitness that the charter requires. This seems to me to be only a contrivance to get out of Dr. Archer's case, and to set up a right on the ground of being a licen