hereby required to call a meeting of the said Fellows, within fourteen days next after such death or refusal shall be known to the said President, in order to elect a Commissioner in the room of every Commissioner who shall so die, or refuse to act; and every Commissioner so to be elected, shall be, and is hereby vested with the same power and authority, in all respects whatsoever, as the Commissioner in whose place he shall be chosen was vested with.
And be it further enacted, That every person who shall be elected a Commissioner to act within the cities of London and Westminster, and within seven miles of the same, and within the county of Middlesex, as aforesaid, shall, within ten days after such election, take the following Oath; (that is to say),
I A. B. do swear, That I will faithfully and impartially
execute all the trusts committed unto me, by virtue of an
Act of Parliament, made in the Fourteenth year of the
reign of King George the Third, intituled, An Act for regulating Mad-houses; and that I will not, directly or
indirectly, give notice, or cause notice to be given to the
Keeper, or person having the care of any house or place
licensed for the reception of Lunaticks, of the time of
visitation of such house or place.
So help me GOD.
Which Oath it shall and may be lawful for the President of
the College of Physicians for the time being to administer
to every such Commissioner, so to be elected as aforesaid,
upon the day he shall be so elected, or within ten days
afterwards: And in case any person who shall be elected a
Commissioner as aforesaid, and who shall be summoned by
the President of the said College to attend the said President
to take the said oath, at such time as shall be mentioned
in such summons, shall refuse or neglect to attend, or
attending, shall refuse to take the said oath, he shall forfeit
and pay the sum of Five Pounds, to be applied to the use of
the said College.
