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Governors to meet from time to time, and on occasion;
any 5 may make or revoke laws.
to which the officers & servants, (except attendant apothecary) & the sick, shall be subject:
on not consorming, 5 governors assembled may suspend, deprive, or remove:
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IV. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that the said governors of the said hospital, and their successors, shall have power and authority and are hereby authorized to meet together from time to time, and as often as there shall be occasion; and the said governors, or their successors, or any five of them, being so assembled; shall have power to make such reasonable laws, rules, orders, and regulations, for the better government and management of the said hospital, as they shall think necessary and convenient, and to revoke or alter the same at their discretion; to which laws, rules; orders, and regulations, so made by the said governors of the said hospital, all officers and servants belonging to the said hospital, except the apothecary attending the said hospital, who shall from time to time be nominated and appointed by the governors of the said hospital, as shall be so assembled, five at least being present, and all sick and infirm persons, who from time to time shall be and remain within the same, shall for ever be liable and subject, and they shall from time to time observe and pay due obedience thereto; and in case such officers and servants, except as before excepted; or sick or infirm persons, shall refuse or neglect to conform to and obey the same, the said governors of the said hospital at any assembly, five at least being present, shall have full power and authority, and are hereby authorized, to suspend or deprive such officers or servants of and from their offices, services, or employments, and all perquisites and profits belonging thereunto, and to remove or cause to be removed such sick and infirm persons out of the said hospital, or for such offence or offences to appoint any lesser punishment, to be inflicted on such officers or servants and such sick and infirm persons, as in their discretion they shall think fit.
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