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 to the aforenamed Ministers, besides their diets, houseroome, washing, firing, &c. and Exemption from all Taxes and Employments in the Common-wealth, the severall sums following, viz.

It should be granted by the State, that whosoever hath served his respective time in the Nosocomium, and hath a Certicate therof from the Society, shall be thereby licensed to practice his profession in any place or Corporation whatsover, notwithstanding any former Law to the Contrary.

The Steward shall not be obliged to stay any longer then from yeer to yeer. Each of the Faculty of Physick may serve five yeers in each degree thereof, each of the Chirurgeons and Apothecaries but foure.

These Circumstances being premised, we now come to the very Essence of the whole businesse, that is, to the Description of each of the aforenamed Ministers their particular Duty and Function, which are as followeth, viz.

The Steward shall be a man of approved honesty, able to give order for all reparations about the house, garden, &c. to agree and bargaine with workmen, and all that shall serve in any Commodities into the house, he is to receive and pay all monies, and submit the accompts thereof to the whole Society, and they againe to the Curators. For which and other like duties he ought to be skill'd in Mathematicks; chifely in Arithmetick and keeping Accompts, measuring of Land, timber, board, Architecture, frugall contrivances and the like. But as to the Advancement of Physick, We desire he Rh