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 as a matter of right but only by election. In making such elections there is a trust and duty to keep up the body by a choice of learned men sufficient to answer the purposes of the charter; and if this be done all the interest that the public have is consulted; they have no interest in this or that man being a member of the college: so long as the body is continued and there are proper censors elects and other officers, and so long as proper persons are licensed and improper ones restrained, the objects of the charter as far as concerns the public will be attained. We have been pressed however with the dicta of Lord Mansfield in R. v. Dr. Askew; very great deference is always due to whatever fell from him: but it sufficient to say that this was not the point then before the Court, the only question there being whether licentiates were of the body.

On the other question respecting the validity of the bye-laws, I can hardly add to what has already been said by the Court; and therefore shall only say that I agree with them in thinking the bye-laws reasonable.

Rule discharged.