The Committee of the House of Commons reported that they had recommended the parties to settle the dispute as to the division of the property between them, and that thereupon the Surgeons had proposed that they should have given up to them Dr. Gale’s Annuity of £16 per annum and Alderman Arris’ gift of £510; also that for about three years until the Surgeons could provide themselves with suitable premises, they should have the use of the Hall, Theatre, &c., at a nominal rent of one guinea per annum. The Barbers agreed to give up Gale’s and Arris’ gifts, but proposed that the Surgeons should take a lease for such days in the year as they commonly used the premises, at £80 per annum, and pay the Barbers £100 towards the expenses to which they had been put by this suit in the Parliament. In the result the Committee reported:--(_a_) That the Surgeons had made good the allegations of their petition. (_b_) That the proposed separation was desirable. (_c_) That the propositions of the Surgeons touching the division of the property were reasonable. Subsequently the Bill passed both Houses and received the Royal Assent, the quaint union being dissolved 25th June, 1745. By this Act (18 Geo. II) the Surgeons were erected into a separate Corporation, and the Barbers were re-incorporated under the style of “The Master, Governors and Commonalty of the Mystery of Barbers of London.” So much of this Act as relates to the Barbers will be found in the Appendix F. The first Court of Assistants of “~The Barbers’ Company~” was held on the 25th June, 1745, at 10 a.m., and there were present:-- Mr. JONATHAN MEDLEY _Master_. Mr. HUMPHRY NEGUS _Second Governor_. Mr. WILLIAM PARKER. } { Mr. SAMUEL RUTTER. Mr. JOHN BARNWELL. } { Mr. ROBERT SCROOBY. Mr. JOHN TRUELOVE. } { Mr. RICHARD SWITHIN. Mr. WILLIAM HADDON. } _Assistants._ { Mr. EDWARD COLEBECK. Mr. JOHN NEGUS. } { Mr. TOGARMAH JONES. Mr. EDWARD BOXLEY. } { Mr. JOHN GURNEY. The Act of Separation being read, and the Oaths as formerly required to be taken by Freemen, Master, Warden, Assistant, Clerk, and Beadle being also read and considered, the Court settled and formulated the various Oaths, and the same are entered in the Minutes. The Election of nine fit and able persons to be Assistants was then proceeded with, and Mr. William Jackson, Mr. John Bearblock, Mr. Will{m.} Roberts, Mr. Thomas Cotton, Mr. John Whiting, Mr. Richard Lookes, James Theobald, Esqre., Peter Theobald, Esqre., and Mr. John Pepys, were unanimously elected. Mr. Edward Boxley and Mr. Samuel Rutter were chosen third and fourth Governors or Wardens. Thanks were voted to Mr. Jonathan Medley and Mr. Humphry Negus “for their great care in defending and preserving the Rights Priviledges and property of this Company on their Separation from the Surgeons.”