REPORT

OF THE COMMITTEE TO NOMINATE PROFESSOR IN THE MEDICAL DEPARTMENT OF YALE COLLEGE.

To C. W. CHAMBERLAIN, M.D., Sec. Connecticut Medical Society :

At a meeting of the Joint Committee of the Connecticut Medical Society and of the corporation of Yale College, for the nomination of Medical Professors in Yale College, duly held at the room of the President of the College, June 16, 1879, on motion, it was Voted, That JAMES KINGSLEY THACHER, M.D., of New Haven, be nominated Professor in the Medical Department of Yale College.

Attest,

WM. DEMING, M.D.,

For the Committee.

CHARTER OF THE

MEDICAL DEPARTMENT OF YALE COLLEGE.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:

SECTION 1. The Medical Department established in Yale College, pursuant to an agreement between the President and Fellows of Yale College in New Haven, and the President and Fellows of the Connecticut Medical Society, shall be known and acknowledged by the name of THE MEDICAL DEPARTMENT OF YALE COLLEGE.

SEC. 2. There shall be established in the Medical Department such Professorships as from time to time may be determined by the President and Fellows of Yale College. There shall be a joint committee for the nomination of candidates to fill these Professorships, which committee shall be appointed in equal numbers by the President and Fellows of Yale College and the President and Fellows of the Connecticut Medical Society, and no person shall be chosen to any Professorship by said President and Directors of Yale College who shall not be approved by a majority of said committee.

SEC. 3. The Board of Examination for the Medical Degree shall consist of the Professors of the Medical Department of the College, and an equal number of the members of the Connecticut Medical Society, appointed by the President and Fellows of the same; and the President of the Medical Society shall be, ex-officio, President of the Examining Board; and in his absence a President pro tempore shall be appointed by the members chosen by the Medical Society.

SEC. 4. Candidates for the degree of Doctor of Medicine must present satisfactory evidence of having pursued medical studies for such time as the President and Fellows of Yale College may determine; must be twenty-one years of age, and of good moral character.

This degree shall be conferred by the President of Yale College, upon the recommendation of the Examining Board, and the diploma shall be signed by him and by the Examining Board, or a majority of them.

The President of Yale College may also confer the honorary degree of Doctor of Medicine upon those persons whom the President and Fellows of the Connecticut Medical Society shall recommend for that purpose;

*Enacted at January Session of Legislature, 1879.

it being understood that any power which has heretofore been possessed by said Society of introducing members to its fellowship may be exercised at their discretion.

SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That if at any time after the passage of this act it shall appear to the President and Fellows of Yale College, or to the President and Fellows of the Connecticut Medical Society, or either of them, to be desirable for the cause of medical education in the said University and in the State of Connecticut that the covenant or articles of agreement, pursuant to which the relation between these two bodies corporate (referred to in the first section of this act) now exists, should be canceled and rendered of no effect, such act of dissolution may be consummated by mutual agreement between the two parties in interest, without further legislative action,—and in that event the management and control of the Medical Department shall devolve solely upon the President and Fellows of Yale College, and upon the Medical Faculty under their direction, without prejudice to any vested interest, contract, or endowment; and any prerogatives heretofore possessed by the Connecticut Medical Society shall revert to the same.

SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That the act entitled "An Act to incorporate the Connecticut Medical Society, and to establish the Medical Institution of Yale College," and all acts in addition to, and in alteration thereof, be, and the same are hereby repealed: provided, that all proceedings had, and obligations imposed in pursuance of the acts hereby repealed, shall have the same effect as though said acts were still in force.

SEC. 7. This resolution may be amended or repealed at the pleasure of the General Assembly.

CHARTER AND BY-LAWS

OF THE

CONNECTICUT MEDICAL SOCIETY.

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GENERAL ASSEMBLY, MAY SESSION, 1870, Amending the Charter of the Connecticut Medical Society.

Resolved by this Assembly:

SECTION 1. That the Physicians and Surgeons now members of the Connecticut Medical Society, and all Physicians and Surgeons who shall be associated with them in pursuance of the provisions of this act, shall be and remain a body politic and corporate, by the name of THE CONNECTICUT MEDICAL SOCIETY; and by that name they and their successors shall and may have perpetual succession; shall be capable of suing and being sued, pleading and being impleaded, in all suits of whatever name and nature; may have a common seal, and may alter the same at pleasure; and may also purchase, receive, hold, and convey any estate, real or personal, to an amount not exceeding one hundred thousand dollars.

SEC. 2. That the superintendence and management of the Society shall be vested in a body to be known and called by the name of "The President and Fellows of the Connecticut Medical Society" which body shall have power to prescribe the duties of its officers and members, and fix their compensation; to establish the conditions of admission, dismission, and expulsion; to lay a tax from time to time upon the members, not exceeding five dollars in each year; to collect the same, and to hold and dispose of all moneys or other property belonging to the Society in such manner as they may think proper to promote the objects and interests of the Society; and in general, to make such by-laws and regulations for the due government of the Society, not repugnant to the laws of the United States or of this State, as may be deemed necessary.

SEC. 3. That the President and Fellows of the Connecticut Medical Society shall be composed of the officers of the Society for the time being, and of Fellows (not less than three nor more than five) chosen by and from each of the County Associations.

SEC. 4. That hereafter no one shall be admitted to membership, in any County Association having connection with this Society, unless he shall have received the degree of Doctor of Medicine, or have been admitted ad eundem, from such medical authorities as this Society shall deem proper to recognize.

SEC. 5. It shall be the duty of the several clerks of the County Associations, in their respective counties, to collect and pay over to the Treasurer of the Society all such taxes as shall from time to time be laid by the President and Fellows, upon the members of the Society as aforesaid; and for that purpose said clerks may procure a warrant, under the hand of a justice of the peace, against such member or members of the Society as shall neglect or refuse to pay the taxes so imposed upon them as aforesaid ; which warrant any justice of the peace is hereby empowered to issue, and said warrant shall be directed to the sheriff or his deputies of the county in which such delinquent member or members reside; and said sheriff, or either of his deputies, on receiving such warrant, may therewith proceed to enforce the collection of such tax or taxes, in the same manner, and with the addition of the same fees, as are by law prescribed and allowed to the collectors of town taxes. And if any of the clerks of the County Associations shall neglect or refuse to collect the taxes entrusted to him to collect, by the time the same are made payable, or having collected the same shall neglect or refuse to pay the same over to the Treasurer of the Society, such Treasurer may cause a suit or suits to be instituted against such delinquent, in the name of the Society, before any court proper to try the same, and the same to pursue to final judgment; and the clerks shall be allowed and receive a compensation of five per centum on all moneys collected by them respectively, and paid to the Treasurer of the Medical Society.

SEC. 6. That these amendments shall take effect on the day of its passage; and so much of the Act entitled an Act to incorporate the Connecticut Medical Society, approved June 5, 1834, and all such acts in addition thereto and amendments thereof as are inconsistent herewith, be, and the same are hereby repealed.

Approved, July 8, 1870.