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ADDRESS ; . :
Of tf$ Philadelphia Society for the
' Prbmotion qf Domestic Industry,
tO VU tKiWOTOJ inc. UMMCl
No 2.. i '
. ' Philadelphia Jffiril 7. 1819. r
1 Db. SMitH's maxim, discussed in, our
i;t number", inevitably involves in its
ecnsequences, as we have proved, the de-
Jlshments,' o which the. productions can
h. purchased "cheaper abroad than they
fan be made at home : and its necessary
result h, todeprive those engird in them
of employment. The doctor; atter haying
fefllcted a deadly .wound by this maxim.
undertakes to provide a sovereign and in-
fel'ible remedy tor me evu, wnicn, to uo
him and his disciples, justice, we shall ex-
ib't. In his own words : it remains to ex
amine ncw iar xne presenpuvn guca iu
jemedy the evil, or any part of it ; ;
1. Thoifgti a numfterof people snoma,
by rettoring (he freedom of trade be
thrown all at once out of their ordinary j
eintdovmenU and common-method of
i . r - I u i ; r i i
fAjtrrtife: u wouia ov no inraus ioi-
lnw. thatthev would thereby be depriv-
' fed either of employment or subsistence.
VL "To the; greater part k manutac
t tares, there are Qther collateral manu-
far tares of so familiar a. nature, tha t a
workman can easily transfer his indtur
try from one to the other.,'
ilfL "The greater part of such work-
men, too, are occasionally employed in
TV. The stock, which employed them
in a particular manufacture betore will '
m m til iiii n ns rTinr f rn pmn nv i
,an equal, number of people 1 in some
V. " Tnecefatal cr tne country remain-
thtitame. the demand far labor, xvill
1 still be the ame thocgHit may be ex-
f erted in di35eient occupations..?
Here are fifedistinct propsiticns.more
dear and plaah than Dr. bmith's usually
are ; but-all highly erroneous, pregnant
with ruin, and calculated to lead those
statesmen astray who square their system
bv them : as iwe hote to make appear. L
The main poinfis the facilitvrf u trans-
Jarring industry from or e branch to a
" collateral tnanufaeture? . v All tlje rest
are but subsidiary to, or explanatory of
this fallncioui assumption. . v.- J . 1
Two questions arise here, both impor
tant, and both demanding affirmative an
wers, ' in order to support the doctor'
kvpothesis. - M : '
.The first fs,' are there suth "collateral
jBanufaetures" Vas he assumes, to vliich
pien, bettft- of employment in those de
partments ; of manufacture, which aire to
be destroyed by the doctor's grand and
oaptivating idea of 'restoring the freedom
commerces may 4 transfer their indus
xtrvV - J" a 1
. It may be conceded, that there i an af
finity between the weaving , of cotton and
woollen; and ja few other manufactures.
But this caDpot, by, any means, -, answer
the doctor's purpose. .Where will he, or
any of his -disciples, find collateral
manufactures to employ coach-makers,
watch-makers, shoe makers, hatters, pa
per makers, pinters, bookbinders, en
gravers, letter-foundersrchandlers, sad
'dlcrs, silverj-platers, jewellers, smiths,
cabinet makers, stone cutters, glass-ma -kcrs,
brewers, tobacconists, potters, wire
drawers, tam.ers, curriers, dyers, rope
makers, brick-makers, plumbers, chair
makers, glovers, umbrella-makers, em-
i)roiderert,calico-printer8,paper-stainers,
cngme-roaxert, V inrners, -wneei-wriguw,
and -the ereat variety of other artists and
manufacturers r There Is no such affinity
As he has presumed." And it may be as
serted, without scruple, tnat it, Dy what,
e doctor speciously styles "restoring
the freedom of trade" ,hve liunnrea, or a
thousand, orjten thousand1 hatters, shoe
"makers, printers & chandlers, are thrbwn
cut of, theif ' ordinary employment,"
there is no V collateral manujucture of so
familiar a nftfiire"that they "can easily
fransjer their industry from one to ano-
... '- ,r ' wit
We state a case, main ana ciear. we
will sumjose five hundred workmen, and
a capital of (five hundred thousand dol
lart, employed in the manuueturer o
wuches, coachea and silver plate ; and
that Switzerland, or Paris,' or London,
fills our markets at Such rates as over
whelm at once all 'competition; and sup
press the manufactories.; - Where are the
' collateral manTxfaciures,trf to receive
.L i -. . : ! i
vi esc rppresseu ana lonorn ? worjtmen,
Juose prospects, and those'of their xami
Bes, are thus blasud f Are. they to become
tatters,' or shoe-makers or tailors,1 or
wcwiers, or weavers, or smiths, or wr-
"vcrs r is uicre-a.-man wno ' can per
vade hirrisel into the belief f such an
trder of things r Is there' a man! wbo can
Pertaade himself, that " the general in
dustry of the1 eauntru nnll tint tkrrebv be
iimbiithedtV -I No : and it is a matter of
inexpressible, astonishment, : that such an
Cca could have ever been hazarded. In a
serious book, intended asj a guide
iesmcn and legislators.' It will not
5na the test of a mpmentVintreStigatjon;
As well might we suppose, that on shut-
op the courts of justice, and expelling
hole corps of lawVrrs. theVmiht at
xJm? C0Tumcc the medical profession,
ny previous study, as that hat-
ters, or tailors, or shoe makers, or wea
vers, or watch-makers, or printers, whom
tht? grand system of " purchasing conimo
dities cheaL' and jthe equally grand sys
tem of " restoring the freedorn, of com
merce might bereave i of employment
should find those " collateral manufac-j
rures" which : Di bmita has so. kindly
provided for them. ) : m
We explicitly declare, that we are far
from charging the doctor with an intenJ
tion to mislead (br deceive.- We believe
him, like many other theorists, to have
been dnped by, his system. But be this
as ir. may, we irusi ir wm appear mac a
more neceptious grouna never was assum
etL W use strong and unequivocal lan
puage ; as the political heresy which we
comba- is of the most pernicious tenden
cy; is supported by the most imposing
and formidable name in the whole, range
of politics! science ; and. ha.s among, its
disciples a large portion of those of our
citi2ens. whose situations, as legislators
of the Union and of the several, states.
j render tlieir errors on this vital point
'. pregnant with the most vdestructive and
ruinous consequences, 1
.. We now come to our second question.
Suppose that every, branch of manufac
tures, without exception, has some colla
teral manufacture : can those who are
divested of employment by restoring
the freedom of trade" ' transfer their in
dustry so " easily" as Dr. Smith suppo
ses. , -i : tN
Ve answer distinctly, No! or at all e
vents, on so small 'a. scale,, as' to beunwor-
l thv rf notice in disenssirms involving the
best mtertstsand tne happmess of nations..
To test the correctness of this opinion.
. let it be. observed that in manufacunng
countries, all departments are generally
i full ; and not merely full, but there a-e
I nlmcst always supernumeraries in abun
dance : and therelore had tnese colla
ttral manufactures really existed to the
full exient the doctors theory would re
quire, and not been fa'nev. sketches,
derived from this fertile imagination, the re
wnuld be no vacancy, to 'which jtbe ob
jects of the doctor's care could transfer
thetr maustry.
Although this appears so plain and pal
p-Die. ns not 10 an tu it contradiction or
disputei yet? on "a point of such magnitude,
i cannot he time ill-spent, to illustrate it
by example. i
S There are very few branches between
which there is so muclCaffinity as the cot-
ton, ani woollen iAnd ifthe doctor's the
ory vould ever, stand the ordeal of exa
mination, it would be in the case of thes
two collateral manufactures. Suppose
men, mat, oy tnennTroauction or ru.ist-in
dia goods, fourr five hundred thousahd
persons, '(about one-ha it ot ,the whole
number engaged in, the cotton manufac-
tm;e ; in xungiana, are at once enrowu out
ot empl vment: can any man be led to
believe, that thev could find a vacuum in
the "collateral) woollen "manufacture"
to which . they could . easily traasfer
their industry " r atuity alone cr.uld
harbor the supposition , They would find
all the places '.ulLand overflowing.; ' , ?'
But the strongest argument against the
doctor's collateral r manufactures " and
" transfer, of industry" remains He
obvibusdv; did not calculate the results of
nis own system, r ne cm not taKet anto
consideration, that, to give it free opera
tion, its ipernicjous Effects . would' not be;
confined, to one or two branches onndus-
try- vlt would.extend to the whole body.
j i ne nopa oi importation wouia oear nown
) in nhe mass of ruin, all those articles with-
in i his description ' of being; purchased
cheaper elsewhere What then becomes
of his " collateral manufactures ,7 and
transfers sf industry and . epiployment
of capital and of those elegant 'sofunding
pnrases, wiia.wnicii ne rounos ou nispa-.
ragraphs ? Are' they not swept away
leaving a trace behiocVrij C- i rf '.''-'
The doctor, with great gravity,!informs
us, that the greater part bf such work
men at occasionally ernplohjedbt country
are.occaswnallyemployed in poun try la
bor. -ITbs is most extra vacant! v errone
ous
for, of all the manufacturers hi Eb -
gland or any other country, there is1 not
probably, one in ten. perhaps -not one in
twenty, thathas ever been in his life six
months at 4 country labor.' Their habits
oiiHrniamics jutapaciih tnem torthat
kind of cmplpyment. A jeweller. a.watch-
maker, a hatter a shoemaker, or a wea
ver, would be almostias unfit for 1 country
labor? as a ploughman of a-gardener, "or
t Miepiicru, jz majfccots or coats.s . .
But: suppose vfor a moment,' tlifoueh
courtesy; we admit,1 with Dn Smith, that
all these cutterent' manufacturers ftrc sp
much acc&stomed to covhtrtf labor" ' as
V 1. '1 a ' i. - 1 ' r -.' ' ...
to u aaepts am; wnat tnrerence is to be
drawp from the admission r Did the doc',
tor believe, did he intend the. world tjt be
lie ve or does there, live a man- who can
believe that when, by the grand project of
1 buying commoduie from foreign coun
tries," 'which can1 supply us; with?' them,
thcnC thposands and tens of thousands of I
- cneaier taun .-wc oursfrue nw , muKC
Deople mValldt once thrown out oftheiY I
ordinary 'eynploymrn(f altdcommonmean4
ofsv6sutenceth9Y carifind emoloment 1
at r country taoor ( -s nowever extrava-1
vagant and childish the idea is, . the doc
tor must baro mcaat this, or the words
were introducea witnoui any meaning
whatever.. - ' . . ! ; r ' i
i i But tt.is cwell known, tnat except ui
harvest ;t?me, there is. .in the country no
Want of. auxiliaries. The persons attach
ed tdsfarms are gene'rally, at all Mother
seasons, amplv adequate to execute all
the 'country labor that Is necessary
Doctor Smith, in order to prove the irii-
inronrietv of those laws wherebv rival ma
nuiactures are woonyexciuaeu, unserves,
( !; " v the domestic produce can be oro't
; there as cheapo the regulation is evidently
i This passage is ambiguous, and is writ.
i ten in" a stvle very different from the usd-
! al one of Dr. Smith, who is as lavish of
: words as any writer in the English lan
guage, and equally lavish of explanations
and amplifications. But here he falls In
to the contrary extreme.5 He does not
condescend to give f us the why or the
wherefore. He leaves iuto the reader io
f divine why 'Ae regulation i useless-
why hurtful.' We must therefore en-
deavor to explore the meaning It ap
pears to be, if weunderstand the first sen
tence of. this maxim, that all restrictiorfs
or regulatious in favor of domestic indus
try, to the exclusion of rival manufactures,
lire ' useless if the articles can be made
at home as cheap as imported ones ; be
cause, it that case the domestic manufac-
i turer is secure from injury by the compe-,
tuion. - ' j. .. .'.
This is highly erroneous. Suppose our
woollen manufacturers sell their best
broadcloth at $ dollars per yard, and that
foreign broadcloth to an immense amount
is i reported "as, chetp"i-is it not ob
vious that'' the glut in vthe market, ana
the ardent competition between the two
parties, would produce the effect which
such a state of things has. never failed to
produce, that is, a reduction of the price
below the mini?numat whieECg man
ufacturer could support hiniself lihW la
bour, and that he would therefore be ru-;
ined r
We how' proceed to consider the last
proposition : " The capital of thx coun
try : remaining the same, the ' demand for
labor will still be the same, though it may
be exerted in difftrent places t and in dif
ferent occupations, ; - v .' f
; if I q prove the extreme fallacy of this
position,' we .? will take the case of any
particular branch, in whicl there are one
hundred master manufacture rs,eacli worth
ten thousand dollars, . a-capital, toge
ther, of one million, whose business is "des
troyed by the 1 eiftoratioii of the free
dom of com nierce," and " the purchase
of articles from abroad, cheaper than we
ourselves can .make them." vlt is well
known that the;piopertofniahufact!ur
ers generally consists in (buildings for
their works, machinery, raw m aterials,
manufactured goods, and outstahdfrg
debt. The; result of the restoration of
the freedom - and commerce'-' " on Dr
Smith's plan, would be to reduce the va
lue of the four first items, from twenty
to fifty per cent, and to bankrupt, a large
proportion of the proprietors. r . h ;
As thlsys a point of, considerable lm
portancewe shall jtajte a single instance,
which is always .more easily compreheh-
rred tnan a- numoer, ana yet anoras a
clear an illustration. .v v.'-
t We will-suppose the case of a tanner,!
c' . -I." 1- ' J l it 1 k
worm tnirty cuousana ooiiars ; 01 wnicn
his various vats, buildings, and toals are
equal to ten thousand ; his hides and lea
ther ten thousand ; & hi& outstanding
debts, an equal sum. .Byvthe inundation
of f oreign leather, sold, we will suppose,
at half price "he is hnabftrto cirry )njhis
business, which sinks the.valae of his vats
and buildings three -fourths . and of ; nuV
stock phe-half At once, s his fortune is
reduced to twelve thousand five hundred
dollars ) and .thus;, WtK a diminished ca
pital and brpken heart; )erhap in , his
old age, he' has to go in quest ofjbut will
not fih,- 'a " collateral manufacture," to
employ that diminished capital. ' Anala
gous cases without number would occur,
by the doctor's system of itstbring the
freedom of trade :" and let us add, as we
can witli perfect; trnth, and we hope it;
will-sink deep mto the minds fif the citi
zens of ; the- united States that through
put this counbythere are cases, equally
strohir', to'be met with in great numbers,
1 ' ' ---vs' -- J ; :-L Jt J -
w aica no , mane ox sounu uimu tua. acarv
can regard .wjthout the deepest sy mpathy
fori the ill-fated sufferers', and the deepest
regret at the mistaken pdlicy : which pro
duced such a state of' things. f'v:-v
I It therefbre nrresistibry tolipwsj that
Dr. Smith's idea,' that "the capital of the
country, will be the same after the des
tructioq 6f: any branch of 'the mauufac
tureV is to the , last degree unspund t and,
of course, .' that the - superstructure built
on it partakes.pf Ua fallacy. ; f ' '. -r
1 Thenloctor gravely mformaus. V The!
tailor does not . make his own shoes, but
buys ; them . of : the Shoemaker. , The
shoemaker does noV attempt to make his
he addv fttrther'.f y'-: yy .
t By means ;of glasses, APtbeds, and
hot - walls;' vcry good grapes can be rai-
set! in Scotland ahtliVerv cood ''wine tbo
an be -nade ; of :thero, at About thirty
Umes th .expense. for which at Jeast
iUiUiy 57 " uruugm. irgra wr
ign countries. 1 Would it be a reasonable
lanrto prohibit the importatlonr of all
makme of Claret arid Burgundym Scot
land r ---j :. .. yyr: :;
From these positions, to 4.which no man
can refuse assent, he Reduces the speci
ous,, bur delusory v maxim, of ' restoring
the freedom of trade, which, in fact
and in truth, is nothing, more .nor less
than, impoverishing the hatip'nj, and sacri
ficing domestiid "Industry tit the shrine j of
avarice, in? . order tc purchase I goods
cneaper than they; can be made at
home 'J - y ;- ' ..j ; . ,j
But by what process of somVq reason
ing does it follow; ibecaiise the shoemaker
will not turn tailor," or the tailor shoema
ker ; or because it would be lolly and
madness to exclude foreign wines in gir
der to introduce the culture of the vine
in Scotland, a country wholly, unfit; for
that object : that, therefore, :. men J em-
ployed in useful branches oT bosipess,' dif
fusing happiness amone tens oi thousands
of workmen and their numerous families,
and enriching their country, are to have
their j usefulness destroy ed, theirv pros
pects blasted, their workmen with their
families reduced to distress, and theccun-
on tljwe nims. They are theasis where-
on it is erected. If the basis be solid and
impregnable, the fabric will stand firm i but
tc .1 a . i i i
11 uic luuiuiauorr De sanoy, me superstruc
ture, will crumbl in o ruins. We trust we
have fully proved that the foundation is thns
saftdy ; and; the - necessarv and inevitable
consequence follows, that the th itself is
wholry untenable and pernicious. y
With one more exUcf we shall conclude
this review j ' 'A' v -fi,.:
Thntibreign trade enriched the, country,
" experience demonstrated to the nobles and
country gentlemen, as well as to thejmer-
chants ; but furw, or in what tnanher,ttione
" of them ktira The merchants ney per.
"fecty in what manner it enriched ihem
' selves. It -wasthir ! business ta know; it.
But to know in what wanner, it enrichei we
country, -wo no part orthetr business r ne
" subject never came into their consideration
but when they bad ocpaon to apply tb their
ountry tor some chancre in tne laws re.
M spectingi foreign trade,"? ; ;; . , j
It jis hardly poss ible, to conceive otj.a?pas
sage more absurd Aor erroneous than' this
(That the nobles, .fand country gentlemen
and merchants,! .were ignorant how ifo
reign trade enriched their conntryjf is almost
too ludicrous to bS asailed by argument, and
1 a strong instance, of the del'.rium iiisvhich
cnUmsiasUc theorists are liuble to be mvoly
ed by ' the ignus. fatuds Of Weir vUionary
views. Can there he found a man "in the wide
extent of the United States, -.to believe that
Sir Jo-hua Gee, Josiah Child, Theodore Jans
sen, Charles King1, - Thomas Willing, Robert
Morris, Geoi ge Clyfiier, Thomas titzsimoOs,
and the thousand of other merchantsiof equal
mind, why have flourished io. Great Britain
and i th is f country, were ignorant in what
)nanjiet 'foreign totiimerte enriched a ctnatiry"
without theaidof the Wealth pt Nations ?
it is impossible. Take' any man of aonna
ihind,' who has foHowed the plough, Nor dri
jcti tbe shuttle, or made shoes all his life &
state he operations of trade to him tor hi teen
minutes, and he will 'rationally account for
the 44 mahdee in which foreign trade anriches
hsounlrjj" Indeed, a merchtVapprentice,
ot six month's standing, could not mistake
the manner. Any one pf them would: at
orifej; pronounce, that foreign trade enriches
a country exactly as larraerspianiers w im-
nuiacturers arc enrjeneu ; m is, uy mc v.
simple process of 'selling more than they bw.
Nona Ton ever was, none will ever, be enrich-
ett in anv puicr way, Anu it is.; iniaccuum
hie? tht Df Snuth should have5 supposed
thai it was reserved for him to make such i
grand discovery. The princ-ple was well
understood bysthe merchants of Tyre, 3,000
years before Adam Smith was born 'And. we
hope to satisfy our fellow-citisens, before we
close, the. e addresses, that if Spain be one of
the inost forlorn and wretched countries in
urope.it has not risen.from ignorance of the
trite principles of pdUticaleconooiy, but from
neglecting! them, as well asi the counsels of
ncr wisest suicsmcn, vsi.ari, wmu uwuruu
ed about & hundred "years since, in that ill
fated and impoverished cohhtry, hasj as we
shall make appear, ablr developed the grand
principles of thai noble Science, in a system
as i far superior, to Dr. Smith's,' as the constiV
tution of the United States "is superior to the
fbrmJ of verhment'of Spain.- "hvaii'HR
t We bad proposed to enter into the exami
nation of sundry other positions and , maxima
of Adam Smith,, ,equally fallacious But we
postpone it for the present, and fondly indulge
the hope that we have conTinted onr iellow-
eitizens. that he lis not quite so- oracular nd
infallible , as his disciples' have cotened
and that the nation which takes hjm for a
guide, in he high iUoafi -RuaC, y
K S put a week hast lapsed since the
publicat on of our Address X&l, i and; rei
cent advices frpm England sjid tne East In
dies afiord the most powerful corroboration
d thelews therein, giten. In the former
country eottoh had fallen in a few days, from
twelve to fifteen per cent, and was likely to
fall still lower 1 the other suples 6foiir coun
try were likewise In aj iTery unpromising
state for the shippers., 'And in the liast In
dies preparations are' ms king to prosecute
with ardor the cultivation of the best species
of cottons. I " f -3f: My - j .. : r ' .
jt.
An act to incorporate theMedicsl Society of
iBe it enacted by the Senate and IfotUe
of Rcpjresenlativet pffhe
l&nited 'States
eftfmertcoi tin ltySf&3
li.. ;f v.- ,
May, Joel T. Gostine.EIisha Harrismr. 1
Peregrine Warfield,r Alexander M'WiV
Pharlesr W&hfartpv j
John T. ShaarT. Thnmai Sim' . Ft-WW '
uair yeorgeiark,enrTfmtt,Tho-;)
mas Henderson, John Harrison, Beniamb v
S.iBohrer, Samuel Horseley.NichoUs W."
Worthinon.r.WiUiftm'ATnnM.vlrflm.., TV
Johnson, Richard Wctght, j .Georgp
May, Robert French, and .such bersomVv
as they may, from time to time: eirti nf : J.
their successors, a're hereby declared to bo '
a community, .corpora tiotSy and body poli
tic, forever by and.under the hime ami V
title of thFMedic4l Sofcietv thwni&trt
of Columbia; and b and under the sam 'A
name ahd title theV shall be able arid est-
pable in law to purchasealce have, kncl
enjoy, to, them and thesucceors, in fe$ ,
or for, lease, estateof estates, apy land, te- : r
hemeftts, rents,' annuities; chattels.' bant! X.
stock, registered debtsi or othfcr nuhlie W
cariUes within the District: bv the kfti:
bargain, sale or demise, of anverson or? '. n
persons, bodies pplit jc or corporate, cap a- ,
ble to make the ttame. and mo. . ''
at
their pleasurei to. alien, ell,itfans
SUCH PUT :
most COnH
natig iiedi'cal and StjrgSal knowledge; J
WanA fn Jt.Z.i. 1 r-.: . .
vided nevertheless. That the said society, x
Pf.MriPOlitic, shall not, at any one time. -'
hold brpossess, property, real, personal; . -or.mixed,
exceeding u total vaiu thb
sum pf 8ix,thousand.dollarspef annum. V, ,
Sec 2, yAnd be it furiher rndttpri That
the members of the said society above de '
sipated, shall hold, m the city oC Wash-
lnton, four stated meetings in every year;
viz, on the first Mondays la. January,
prjl, July and QcCober ; the officers if the
Society to consist of a Presideht; two Vice "V
Presidehjs, onc CcrfespbndidgSecrttary; t
one Recordtnrg Secretary, one .Treasurer
and one librarian, who shall Je ahrtota
ed On the KrniiH "M nnA ate- ir ' Mh !
thousand eirht hnHvr1 nA rAnt.t.n Carta
oh the annual mietinr in Jamia fiU
thereafter, fnot less than Wn mn! 1 '
oeing present at. such meetinr :) A.nd Ihd
Society, mav make
...... ' . .--' .. .7 -r-. ap ,.r
maejecVintoeir bpcjy , such ' medicst "..j
and chirurgrcal prattiUpn.ers, within tho
au jvv, viuniDiaf as tney may deenx ;
qualified to became members of the Socl-i
oj uic, suuieiy now electee, are,to remain
in oflce uhqi the inekt election after the
passage -tf lius t&; jiV: v; ;
. Sec, Jnd bfi itjurtyer emitted. That
hall and roajr be lawful, for the said,
Medical Society tor any number of theni
attendmgr, Ynot less than ieveh. to elecn
bv ballot, five Tlrsnftd." liMoni rkf thm. "
(District, who shall be styled .the Medical
I Board of Eximineri pf the rDistrict of :
iolumbta. ; whpse duty U shall Ibe ;to
grant licenses to s&h medical aud chirtav
gical gentlemen as they may, upon a fort
examination', jmige aiieauate ",tol cota
nience the practice of the medical an4 i
chirurgical artsy or as tmay produce di
plomas from some respectabre college'oiS
society j "each person so obtaining a certfc.
ficate,to pay a sum not exceedms ten dc
larsV to Ik ftxe4 on or ascertained bjr tfctj -soeietyv
'r,:tf.:x Ay vr.Kt
any three of the, examiners shall cjnstx
tUte a board for examinW VurJt ' ranrii-
dates as may apply, and sbaU sebscriba . V
their names : to . each certiBcate by thcraV
raned, wich tertificave shall also be? , ; :f
Countersigned ftv the Pw-sidenl of thV ikL i
ciety, and Jiayethe seal cf the society af- '
fixed thereto by he SedreUiyuppntiay- , ,
Ing mtov thejhands of : the, Treasurer the
sum of money to he ascertained, as aboVo
by the society j and'any one of the said 1
examiners may fcrani a licenset to ' prac ..
,ticc, until a board, m conformity to thh
act can be held i Provided ht nothing: 1
herein Contained, shall(authorite the i
corporation in;any .wise' to regulate tho
pribc oi meuicai ore surgical attendance
on such persons as matneed those ieJnrl. -
- Se&S. And Hit further enacted, Th'it
after? the appointment of the aforesaVJ
medical boardino person, not herctojoird "
a practitioner of medicine or siirfcrty with "
in the District of Colnmbia 'shall be sit.
lowed to practice within the said District
hi efther of the said branches ihd receive
payment Tor hif services .wUhoutf first;
having obtained AlicVnce, testified as J by
this law direcfed; or: witbiat the product
tion of a diptomi as aforesaid under tho
penalty M fifty dollars for each ofichcei
society r
mrmerV- Vr 7; n hx
: '.Sec rJnd VeVi further enact That! I -W.:l.rson-whoi-iiPpn
application: shkll!-'
be elecfedaTnember of the Medical SocW " v
etyahaU pay.sdnV not exceeding ;teW 1' r "
dollars, to be ascertained by'the societyJ 'C'A
x 4 4 jinu vcsijunaer enacteat 1 hit v -Y
the;Medical Society 6e. and thes ir ;
herebyi emfered, from tiipe tdtirae, & l.'vV.;
macsuca oy-iawvruies,afiarepiauflpa ' s
as they may find requisite; to break br,aj
ter their mlmoh seal to-he trr",v
and places for the ;iaetlnj OcX tt tuor-fr:
sucAoiner tilings as may tjcTctiuitlic; lor -
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