Royal College of Physicians, Ireland, Act, 1800

President and fellows may examine all graduates, and may reject unfit persons.

XLV. And whereas by the said charter, so granted by the late King William and Queen Mary to the said college of physicians, it is provided, that all graduates in physic of the university of Dublin, having performed their full acts, shall, from time to time, upon their application, be immediately admitted into the college of physicians, in Dublin, without further examination, he and they paying the usual fees; and whereas it is reasonable that the said president and fellows should, in all cases, judge and determine upon the abilities and knowledge of those persons who are to be admitted members of the college; be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That it shall and may be lawful to and for the said president and fellows of the said college of physicians, from henceforth, to examine all graduates in medicine, of the university of Dublin, though they should have performed their full acts, who shall apply for admission into the said college in the same manner as other persons are usually examined, and to reject such of them as shall decline to submit to such examination, or as shall upon examination appear to them unfit to be admitted.