2. Power given to the Masters to make lawful assemblies, to keep Courts in their Common Hall, and therein to consult, counsel and decree touching their Statutes, Laws and Ordinances, for the good rule, state and government of the Company. 3. Power to make laws, etc., for the government of the Masters or Governors, and of all and singular persons using the mysteries of Barbery or Surgery within the City of London, the liberties and suburbs thereof. 4. Power to punish offenders by penalties, fines, and imprisonments. 5. Fines to be levied by distress by the officers of the Company. 6. Nomination of John Laycock as Master, and of the three Wardens. 7. The present Masters to continue in office until the Monday next before the feast of St. Bartholomew the Apostle, and until the election of new Masters. 8. The present Masters and Assistants to continue on the Court for life, unless removed for misbehaviour or other good cause. 9. Upon the death or dismissal of an Assistant, the vacancy to be filled up by the Court. 10. Assistants to be sworn on admission. 11. The Masters, or the more part of them, to choose twelve persons of the mystery (six whereof to be expert Surgeons), which twelve were to be the Electors to choose the new Masters or Governors on the Monday next before the feast of St. Bartholomew. 12. Of the four Masters, two to be Surgeons. 13. The Masters elected to be sworn to the due execution of their offices. 14. Any member elected a Governor, to be ever after an Assistant. 15. If a Governor be dismissed for misconduct, another to be chosen in his place in the form provided. 16. The twelve Electors to be sworn. 17. Power of search, oversight, reformation, government, and correction, as well of free as of foreign professors of Barbery and Surgery in London and its suburbs. 18. Power of entry into Shops of Barbers and Surgeons. 19. Power to oversee and approve or condemn plasters, ointments, instruments, etc. 20. Power to examine Barbers and Surgeons. 21. Power to prohibit ignorant persons, or such as shall wilfully refuse to be examined, from practising. 22. Power to admit skilful persons to practise Surgery. 23. Power to reject and destroy all noxious or improper medicines, ointments, instruments, etc. 24. The Masters finding on their search any impostors, ignorant persons, or refusers to be examined, the same to be bound to their good behaviour. 25. No butcher, tailor, waxchandler or other persons, to cut, dissect or embalm any dead body, but the same to be done by members of the Company approved and appointed by the Masters or Governors of the Barber-Surgeons. 26. The Masters or Governors and admitted Surgeons, to be discharged from Watch, Ward, Inquests or Juries, and the office of Constable, and from assessments for the same. 27. Power to purchase lands, etc. 28. Ratification of the old liberties and franchises of the Barber-Surgeons, and of their lands.