Royal College of Physicians, Ireland, Act, 1800

Preamble.

Recited acts of 25 and 31 G. 3. and so much of 21 G. 2. [15 Geo. 2.] as is herein recited, are hereby repealed.

WHEREAS the president and fellows of the King's and Queen's college of physicians in Ireland have petitioned parliament, setting forth that various difficulties had arisen in carrying the said acts of the twenty-fifth and thirty-first of his present Majesty into execution, occasioned by the manner of framing the same; that several of the provisions of the said acts appear from experience to be now unnecessary, and others imperfect, and therefore that it is expedient and necessary for the good government of the said college, and for the advancement of the said school of physic in the science of medicine, to alter and amend the said acts; and whereas the accomplishment of the objects of the said petition would be of great public advantage; be it therefore enacted by the King's most excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the lords spiritual and temporal, and commons in this present parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, That the said recited acts of the twenty-fifth and thirty-first of his present Majesty, and so much of an act made in this kingdom in the twenty-first year of his late Majesty King George the second, entitled, An act for vacating the office of the King's professor in Dublin, upon the death or surrender of the present King's professor, and for erecting three professorships of physic in the said city, instead thereof,(a ) as relates to the number of professors, the electors, and the mode of election, the tenure and salaries of the said professors, and the times and manner of lecturing, be, and the same are hereby repealed. [Rep., Stat. Law Rev. (I.) Act, 1879.]

[(a) The reference is erroneous. No Act with this title is found among the statutes of the session 21 Geo. 2. But an Act with this title is found among the Private Acts of the session of 15 Geo. 2. It is not numbered, but stands first on the roll of Private Acts of the year 1741.]