County Hospitals (Amendment) Act 1767

John Murphy may be elected surgeon for Kerry, on certificate of the surgeon general and a others if required.

VI. And whereas John Murphy of the town of Tralee in the county of Kerry surgeon, served several years on board his Majesty’s flect, and is from long experience and practice the fittest and most able in the said county to attend and take care of the infirmary and hospital, now erected or hereafter to be erected and established in the said town of Tralee and county aforesaid, pursuant to the said act: and whereas the governors and governesses thereof, as well as the body of the said county, are unanimously desirous to appoint the said John Murphy to be attending surgeon to the said infirmary, but are disabled from doing so by the strict letter of the said act: be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the governors and governesses of the said infirmary may elect, if they shall think fit so to do, the said John Murphy as surgeon to the said county infirmary, he producing a certificate from the surgeon general in this kingdom, and of two other able surgeons, to be appointed by the said surgeon general of his the said John Murphy’s ability and skill in surgery, if the said governors and governesses of the said infirmary shall require the same; any thing in the said act contained to the contrary notwithstanding.