The act of incorporation and by-laws of the Philadelphia Medical Society, instituted 1789.

Date:
Dec. 1824
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Credit: The act of incorporation and by-laws of the Philadelphia Medical Society, instituted 1789. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    In the name, and by the authority of the Com monwcalth of Pennsylvania. THOMAS MIFFLIN, GOVERNOR OF THE SAID COMMONWEALTH, To MATTHEW IRVIN, Esq. Master of the Rolls in and for the said Commonwealth, SENDS GREETING: Whereas it has been duly certified to me, by Jared Ingersoll, Esquire, attorney-general of the said commonwealth, and by Thomas M'Kean, Esquire, chief-justice, and Edward Shippen, Jasper Yeates, and William Bradford, Esquires, justices of the Su- preme Court of Pennsylvania, that they have respec- tively perused and examined the foregoing act or instrument, for the incorporation of The Philadel- phia Medical Society; and that they concur in opinion, that the objects, articles and conditions there- in set forth and contained, are lawful. NOW KNOW YOU, that in pursuance of the act of the General Assembly in such case made and provided, I have transmitted the said act, or instrument of incorpora- tion unto you, the said Matthew Irvin, master of the rolls aforesaid, hereby requiring you to enrol the same, at the expense of the applicants, to the intent that according to the objects, articles, and conditions therein set forth and contained, the parties may be- come, and be, a corporation, or body politic in law, and in fact, to have continuance by name, style, and title, in the said instrument provided and declared. Given under my hand, and the great seal of the state, at Philadelphia, this second day of June, in the year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-two, and of the common- wealth the sixteenth. By the Governor, A. J. Dallas, Secretary.