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ROBERT WRIGHT, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
15. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the right of the
said college
confer degrees shall not take place until professors shall have been
appointed, and one course of lectures delivered upon the several
branches of anatomy, chemistry, materia medica, and the practice
of physic; Provided, that nothing in this act shall be construed
to
prohibit the said regents form conferring, at any time, the honorary
degrees before mentioned, or from admitting, at any time, to
the degree of doctor of medicine, such persons as may be appointed
professors in the college, on their performing such exercises and
duties as may be prescribed by their ordinances. |
1807.
CHAP. 53.
Right to confer
degrees, when to
take place. |
16. AND BE IT ENACTED, That until further
arrangements be
made by the regents of the said college, John B. Davidge, M. D.
and James Cocke, M. D. shall be joint professors of anatomy,
surgery and physiology. George Brown, M. D. shall be professor
of the practice and theory of medicine, John Shaw, M. D. shall
be professor of chemistry, Thomas E. Bond, M. D. shall be professor
of materia medica, and William Donaldson, M. D. shall be
professor of the institutes of medicine; and the said professors, or
any three of them, shall appoint the time and place of the first
meeting of the regents of the said college, giving one week's notice
of it in two news-papers published in the city of Baltimore. |
Professors appointed. |
17. AND BE IT ENACTED, That all students who
matriculate in
the said college previous to the first day of January, and attend
any of the lectures therein to the end of the course, shall be considered
as having completed a term. |
What students to
be considered as
having completed
a term. |
18. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the medical and
chirurgical faculty
of the state of Maryland shall be considered as the patrons
and visitors of the said college, and their president, for the time
being, shall be chancellor of the college; and the medical faculty of
the said college shall give into the said medical and chirurgical faculty,
at each of their biennial meetings, a report of the progress
of learning in the said college, and of such other particulars as
they shall think fit to communicate. |
Medical faculty
of the state considered
as the patrons
and visitors
of the college. |
19. AND BE IT ENACTED, That in case at any
time hereafter
through oversight, or otherwise through misapprehension and mistaken
construction of the powers, liberties and franchises, in this
charter or act or incorporation granted, or intended to be granted,
any ordinance should be made by the said corporation of regents,
or any matters done and transacted by the corporation, contrary to
the tenor thereof, all such ordinances, acts and doings, shall of
themselves be null and void, yet they shall not, in any courts of
law, or by the general assembly, be deemed, taken, interpreted or
adjudged, into an avoidance or forfeiture of this charter and act of
incorporation, but the same shall be and remain unhurt, inviolate
and entire, unto the said corporation of regents, in perpetual succession,
and all their acts, conformable to the powers, true intent
and meaning hereof, shall be and remain in full force and validity,
the nullity and avoidance of such acts to the contrary notwithstanding. |
Certain ordinances
to be void, &c. |
20. AND BE IT ENACTED, That this charter and
act of incorporation,
and every part thereof, shall be good and available in all
things in the law, according to the true intent and meaning thereof,
and shall be construed, reputed and adjudged, in all cases most favourably
on the behalf, and for the best benefit and behoof of, the |
Charter to be good,
&c. |
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