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 hereby required to call a meeting of the said Fellows, within fourteen days next after such death or refusal shall be known to the said President, in order to elect a Commissioner in the room of every Commissioner who shall so die, or refuse to act; and every Commissioner so to be elected, shall be, and is hereby vested with the same power and authority, in all respects whatsoever, as the Commissioner in whose place he shall be chosen was vested with.

And be it further enacted, That every person who shall be elected a Commissioner to act within the cities of London and Westminster, and within seven miles of the same, and within the county of Middlesex, as aforesaid, shall, within ten days after such election, take the following Oath; (that is to say),

I A. B. do swear, That I will faithfully and impartially execute all the trusts committed unto me, by virtue of an Act of Parliament, made in the Fourteenth year of the reign of King George the Third, intituled, An Act for regulating Mad-houses; and that I will not, directly or indirectly, give notice, or cause notice to be given to the Keeper, or person having the care of any house or place licensed for the reception of Lunaticks, of the time of visitation of such house or place.

So help me GOD.

Which Oath it shall and may be lawful for the President of the College of Physicians for the time being to administer to every such Commissioner, so to be elected as aforesaid, upon the day he shall be so elected, or within ten days afterwards: And in case any person who shall be elected a Commissioner as aforesaid, and who shall be summoned by the President of the said College to attend the said President to take the said oath, at such time as shall be mentioned in such summons, shall refuse or neglect to attend, or attending, shall refuse to take the said oath, he shall forfeit and pay the sum of Five Pounds, to be applied to the use of the said College.