The Sun.
London, England, 1816-07-10 00:00:00

• This pity were inthlislied,
In Two Volumes, m.o. Second Edition, price Igq•
CONSIDBRATIONS the,PHFeSENT 1)0-
LITICAL SPATE of INDIA; enthriclulr OtKervat tont
on the Character of the Natives, on the Civil and Criminal
Courts, the Administration of the State oaf .1 ustice; the Lana-
Tenure, the .Condition of the Peasantry, and the Internal
Police of our Eastern .Durninions ; intended chiefly as. a Ma-
nual of Instruction intheir Duties, for the Younger Servants
of the Company,. . • , `.‘•
fly ALEXANDER FRASIER TYTLER; -
Late Assistant Jnige in .the•s2,l PolUtitiabs, Bengal Esta-
idistiment..•,.
London: Printed for Illaelt,,Parbury, ;viol Allen, lloolisel-
lets to the Honourable East•lndia Company, Leadentiall-
street.

INIPORTANT PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS.

(To be cotyinned regittorly.)

A BILL for REGULATING the PRACTICE of SURMA:
throughout the UNITED KINGDOM of GREAT BRI-
TAIN and IRELAND.
—Whereas ignorant and:incapable persons are not
restruined'by law iron) practising Surgery,
numberswhere-
by the health of great numbers of persons is much
injured, and the lives of many destroyed
May it therefore please your Majesty, that it
may be enacted; and be it enacted by the King's
Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice
and consent of the Lords Spiritual and' Temporal,
and Cotinnons, in this present Parliament es-
senibled, and, by the authority of the saute, That
from and after it shall not
be lawful for any person to practise-Surgery, fur
Incre or profit, 'unfits he shall have been person-
ally examined, as to his qualification and fitness
thereto, by the Royal Co4ge of Surgeons in Lou-
don, or by the Royal College of Surgeons in
'Ediobiirgh, or by the Royal College of Surt,unis
in Ireland ; and unless he, shall have reeeised a
Diploma or TesfitiOntial 'of his knowltilge and
ability to practise Barg'ery, tinder. the seal of the-
Royal College 'before whom such, examioation
shall have been made ; for which Diploma or
Testimonial the Usual fee, and no mote, shall be
demanded end received.
And be it further enacted, That every person
who shall have been so exatnined', and shall have
received such Diploma or Testimonial under the
seal of either of the said Hoynl Colleges, shall be
entitled and shall bare the right tia prWetise Sur-
gery in any and every part of his Majesty's DiMii-
nions, any law or custom to the contrary not-'
withstanding.
Provided always, and he it, farther enacted.
That all and every person or persons %vim shall
have been duly examined, and shall have obtained
ii Testimonial or Qiialification as a principal Stir-
goon in his Majesty's Army. or Navy, and Who
shall have actoally served in that capacity, shall
'be entitled to practise Surgery in any and every
part of his Majesty's dominions.
And wheteas by a certain Statute of the Par-
liainent of Ireland, passed in the thirty-sixt b year
of the reign of his present Majesty, iotitoled,
An Act tor the further Regulation of Public
Infirmaries or Hospitals," it is enacted, That
from and after the passing of that Act, no person
should he capable of being elected Surgeon to a
Countylisfirmary or Hospital, tiOlto should not
previously have obtained Letters Testimonial
of his qualification tinder the seal of the
Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland ; and
that no other qualificatiou or examination should
necessary to make. any ' person capable of
being elected Surgeon to Rik 11, infirmary or
Hotpitat : and whereas by another-Mt, passed in
the litty-fourth year of the reign of his present
Majesty,- intioded, "Au Act to amend several
Acts for erecting or establishing Public Infirma-
ries or. Hospitals in Ireland, so far as relates to
the Surgeoos or Apothecaries of such Infirmaries
or llospitais," it is provided, that Letters Testi-
monial of the College of SUrgeons in Ireland shall
be laid before the Gaud Juries' in the said Act
mentioned, previOus to the requiring or Making
any presentment, of any sum of money to he Sur-
germ of any Infirmary or Hospital by such Grand
Juries : And whereas it is just and expedi-
ent that the provisions of the said Acts should
be extended to the Members of the Royal College
of Surgeons in London and in Edittburgh ; he it
therefore enacted, that the Members of the Royal
College of Surgeons in London, and of the Royal
College of Surgeoas in Edinboro', shall be
eligi-
ble to ail the offices NW' appointments mentioned
in the tirst.reeited Act, and be entitled to all
benefits and advantages given and intended by the
second recited Act, on the production of the di.
phones or testinionials under the seal of their re-
spective Royal Collegei, in the saint matiner as
the Members of the Royal College of Surgeons in
Ireland, have been 'since the passing of the said
recited Acts.
And Whereas surgical aid is frequently required
in the practice of midwifery, suit it is expedient
that male persons so practising, should be qaali-
fled to reutler such aid ; be it therefore enacted,
that from and after it shall hot
be lawful for any.male person to practise Mid-.
wilery, 'Mess he shall have obtained a diploma
or testimonial Of his knoWledge and ability to
practise Surgery, under the seal of one of the said
three Royal Colleges ,• or unless he shall have ob.
twined a. testinomial of qaalifitation'ai a principal
Surgeon in the Army or Navy, mot shall have
actually served in that capacity.
Provided always, and be it farther enacted, that
nothing in this Act &Attained. shall be (leeched
or tit re to exaeinito any person resident in (heat
Britain or Ireland, aink'actually -practising Sur.
gery or Midwifery at the time of the pas,iint; of
this Ant ;. but thatevery person may continue to
practise Surgery or Midwifery 'respectively.- ao
far as any such person lawfully might bavtalout
if this Act-had not been passed.