Medical Jurisprudence, Volume 3 (of 3)Paris, John Ayrton
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Medical Jurisprudence, Volume 3 (of 3)
Paris, John Ayrton
Medical laws and legislation -- Great Britain
Provided nevertheless, That in case any two commissioners shall, at any
time or times, think proper to call a meeting of the said commissioners,
such two commissioners may themselves cause the like notice to be given,
and to be sent, in manner aforesaid, to the other commissioners,
requiring their attendance at such time and place as shall be expressed
in such notice.
Provided always, That at all meetings of the said commissioners in the
execution of this act, in case of an equality of votes, the chairman
shall have the casting vote.
And be it further enacted, That the said commissioners, or any three or
more of them, either by themselves or with their secretary, as they
shall think fit, shall, and they are hereby required, once at least in
every year, and whenever required by the Lord High Chancellor, or Lord
Keeper, or Commissioners for the custody of the Great Seal, or by the
Lord Chief Justice of the Court of King’s Bench, or by the Lord Chief
Justice of the Court of Common Pleas, for the time being, to visit and
inspect all such houses as shall have been licensed by them, as
aforesaid, between the hours of eight and five in the day-time; and may,
in like manner, at any other time or times, within the hours aforesaid,
visit and inspect all such houses as often as they, or any three or more
of them, shall think necessary, and shall have, at all such times,
liberty and power to continue in such house, and to examine the persons
confined as Lunaticks therein, for such time as they shall think proper.
And be it further enacted, That the said commissioners, or their
secretary, shall, at every such visitation, make minutes, in writing, of
the state and condition of all such houses which they shall so visit, as
to the care of the patients therein, and all such other particulars as
they shall think deserve their notice, together with their observations
thereupon; all which minutes shall, within one week next after such
visitation, be by the said secretary entered, by way of report, in a
register to be kept by him in the said College of Physicians for that
purpose, and the same shall be read to, and signed by, the said
commissioners, or any three or more of them, at their next meeting: but
no minute which tends to impeach the character of any house shall be so
entered, unless such minute shall have been previously signed by three
or more of the said commissioners who shall have been present at such
visitation; and in case the commissioners, upon their visitation, shall
discover any thing that, in their opinion, shall deserve censure or
animadversion, they shall, in that case, report the same: and such part
of their report, and no more, shall be hung up in Censor’s room of the
College, to be perused and inspected by any person who shall apply for
that purpose.
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