Meath Hospital Act 1773

The annual salary of 100l. for physician and chirurgeon appropriated to the general fund,

the present physicians and chirurgeons appointed,

may elect on vacancy,

in other respects subject to like rules as the other county hospitals in said act.

II. Provided always, that the annual sum or salary of one hundred pounds, usually granted to the physician and surgeon, be paid and appropriated to the maintenance and general fund for necessaries in said hospital, and that in all other respects said hospital shall be subject to the like rules and regulations as the other county hospitals in said act mentioned, save only that the present physicians and chirurgeons of said Meath hospital shall be appointed the physicians and chirurgeons of said intended infirmary for the county of Dublin; and that it may be lawful for said physicians and chirurgeons, or a majority of them, to elect a physician or chirurgeon in the room of any physician or chirurgeon, who from time to time by death; removal, or otherwise shall make a vacancy in said hospital, in consideration of their having served said hospital gratis these seventeen years past, and their having had a principal share in the support thereof during that period, and in erecting said building, as well as the relinquishing in behalf of themselves and their successors in said hospital all claim or title to the annual salary of one hundred pounds, which they otherwise would be intitled to in consequence of said act; any thing heretofore or in said act mentioned to the contrary notwithstanding.