London and Its Environs Described, vol. 4 (of 6): Containing an Account of Whatever is Most Remarkable for Grandeur, Elegance, Curiosity or Use, in the City and in the Country Twenty Miles Round ItAnonymous
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London and Its Environs Described, vol. 4 (of 6): Containing an Account of Whatever is Most Remarkable for Grandeur, Elegance, Curiosity or Use, in the City and in the Country Twenty Miles Round It
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London (England) -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800; London (England) -- Gazetteers -- Early works to 1800
The general committee receive immediately into the hospital any patient
who shall have been discharged cured, in case such patient relapses
within two months. The general committee also take in by rotation such
patients as are discharged uncured; but each of them is to pay 5s. _per_
week, till the charity is enabled to lessen that expence: but the number
of these in the house are not to exceed twenty.
_An abstract of the rules with respect to the Governors, &c._
I. Every person paying twenty guineas or upwards, or paying five
guineas, and signing an agreement to pay the same sum for the four next
succeeding years, is admitted a Governor, except all persons acting as
Physician, Surgeon, Apothecary, or Secretary to this hospital, (other
than the six Apothecaries declared Governors at the general meeting held
on the 29th of June 1750.)
II. For transacting the business of this hospital, a general court is
held twice every year, viz. on the second Wednesday in the months of
February and August, and at such general courts as are herein after
mentioned, and every general court consists of nine Governors.
III. At the general court held annually on the second Wednesday in the
month of February, one President, four Vice-Presidents, a Treasurer, a
general Committee, Physician, Surgeon, Apothecary, and Secretary, are
elected for the year ensuing. And no person acting as Physician,
Surgeon, or Apothecary to any other hospital or infirmary, can be
Physician, Surgeon, or Apothecary to this hospital.
IV. All questions are determined by the majority of Governors present,
on holding up of hands, or by a division, or by a ballot, in case it is
required by seven or more Governors before a division is begun; and in
all cases of an equality of votes, the person presiding for the time
being has the casting vote. In all debates the person speaking stands
up, and addresses himself to the chair, and no person is to speak more
than once to the same question without leave.
V. At the general court to be held annually on the second Wednesday in
August, a special committee of seven Governors, who are not of the
general committee, are appointed to audit and examine the several
accounts relating to this hospital, and report their opinion of such
accounts to the general court held on the second Wednesday in February
following,
VI. The President has power to order special general courts to be
summoned as often as he thinks necessary: and, upon every vacancy in the
office of Treasurer, Physician, Surgeon, Apothecary, or Secretary, a
general court is summoned to meet, in order to fill up the vacancy. But
no person is intitled to vote at such general court, unless he has paid
his subscription money on or before the day in which the vacancy is
declared.
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