thirty days. And that no sale, or alienation, or lease for above three years, of any part of the real estate of the said corporation, shall be valid, unless the terms and nature of such sale or lease be proposed at a previous meeting of the said corporation.

Signed by order of the House,

RICHARD PETERS, Speaker.

Enacted into a law, at Philadelphia, on Thursday, the twenty-sixth day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred eighty-nine.

PETER ZACHARY LLOYD,

Clerk of the General Assembly.

ORDINANCES AND BY-LAWS.

CHAPTER I.

MEMBERS AND MEMBERSHIP.

1. The College shall consist of Fellows and Associates.

2. The Fellows shall be practitioners of medicine, of good character and standing in their profession, residing within the city of Philadelphia, and over twenty-four years of age.

3. The Associates shall be distinguished practitioners of medicine, residing beyond the limits of the city.

4. No person who gives his support to any system of practice, which is sustained by efforts to weaken or diminish public confidence in the science of medicine, or in the medical profession, or who, by advertisement or other means, announces his claim to superior qualifications in the treatment of diseases, or of a particular disease or class of diseases; or who holds a patent or a part of a patent for a surgical instrument; or who enters into a collusive agreement with an apothecary with a view to pecuniary

profit or to professional patronage; or who gives the formula of a prescription to one apothecary, which he refuses to give to others; or who deals in secret medicines, or publicly recommends them, shall be considered eligible as a Fellow or Associate of the College. And, any Fellow or Associate who hereafter may be so engaged, shall forfeit his right to membership, on the fact being reported as established, by the Board of Censors. An appeal from the decision of the Censors is permitted in this as in all other cases.

5. Candidates for Fellowship or Associateship may be proposed in writing, at any stated meeting, by three Fellows; but they shall be balloted for only at the stated meetings in January, April, July, and October; when, if four-fifths of the ballots cast be in their favor, they shall be pronounced duly elected : Provided, however, that there are present at the meeting at least twenty Fellows.

6. All propositions for Fellowship or Associateship shall be read at the meetings of the College intervening between the one at which they were presented and that at which the candidates are to be balloted for.

7. No candidate who is rejected shall be again proposed within twelve months from the period of such rejection.

8. The names of the persons proposed as candidates for Fellowship or Associateship shall not be placed on permanent record, unless the said candidates are elected. In case of the rejection of any

candidate, the paper containing his nomination shall be destroyed immediately after the ballot.

9. No person elected a fellow shall be recognized as a member of the College until he shall have subscribed the Ordinances and By-Laws, and paid his initiation fee. If he omit such signing and payment for the period of three months, his election shall become void.

10. The initiation fee shall be fifteen dollars, payable at or before signing the Ordinances and ByLaws. The semi-annual contribution shall be five dollars, payable in advance, at the stated meetings in January and July. To all semi-annual contributions that shall remain unpaid more than six months, ten per cent. shall be added.

11. Any Fellow who neglects or declines the payment of his semi-annual contributions for two successive years, shall forfeit his membership: Provided, however, that if any Fellow shall be absent from Philadelphia, on public service in the Army or Navy of the United States, for twelve consecutive months or more, a deduction shall be made from the amount of his semi-annual contributions, corresponding to the duration of his absence.

12. No Fellow who may remove permanently from the City of Philadelphia, shall, in consequence of such removal, forfeit his Fellowship, but he shall be exonerated from the payment of the semi-annual contribution.

13. No Associate, who may come to reside within the limits of the City of Philadelphia, shall be