XI. Provided always, and be it hereby enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That this Act, or any Thing therein contained, shall not extend, or be construed or taken to prejudice, abridge, or infringe any of the Privileges, Authorities, Powers, Rights, Liberties, or Franchises heretofore granted by any Act or Acts of Parliament, or by any Letters Patents, Charters or Charter of any of his Majesty’s Royal Predecessors, Kings or Queens of _England_, to the President and College, or Commonalty of the Faculty of Physick in _London_.
XII. And it is hereby further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That such of the Members of the said United Company or Corporation, who are Freemen of the said Company, and are not admitted or approved Surgeons, and their Successors, shall, from and after the said twenty-fourth Day of _June_ one thousand seven hundred and forty-five, be, and they are hereby made and constituted, a Body Corporate, and Commonalty Perpetual, which, at all Times hereafter shall be called by the Name of _The Master, Governors, and Commonalty of the Mystery of Barbers of_ London; and by the same Name shall plead and be impleaded before all manner of Justices, in all Courts, and in all manner of Actions and Suits; and also purchase, enjoy, and take to them, and their Successors, any Lands, Tenements, Rents, or Hereditaments, not exceeding the yearly Rent or Value of two hundred Pounds in the whole, without incurring any of the Penalties or Forfeitures of the Statute of Mortmain.
XIII. And it is hereby further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That Master _Jonathan Medley_, the present first Master or Governor of the said United Company or Corporation, and Master _Humphrey Negus_, the present third Master or Governor of the said United Company, and such two other Persons as shall hereafter be elected and appointed for that purpose in pursuance of this Act, and as is herein after mentioned, shall be and they are hereby respectively established and confirmed the Master and Governors of the Company or Corporation of Barbers of _London_, established and incorporated by this Act; and shall continue in, and hold, exercise and enjoy the said Offices respectively, until others shall be chosen, elected and appointed in and to the same Offices respectively, pursuant and according to the By-laws, Rules, Orders and Constitutions of the same Company; and also that the said _Jonathan Medley_, _Humphrey Negus_, and _William Parker_, _Luke Maurice_, _John Barnwell_, _John Truelove_, _William Haddon_, _John Negus_, _Edward Boxley_, _Samuel Rutter_, _Robert Scrooby_, _Richard Swithin_, _Edward Colebeck_, _Togarmah Jones_, and _John Guerney_, being fifteen of the present Court of Assistants of the said United Company, and such nine other Persons as shall hereafter be elected and appointed for that Purpose in pursuance of this Act, and as is herein after mentioned, shall be and they are hereby constituted and appointed the Court of Assistants of the Company of Barbers, made, established, and incorporated by this Act; and shall continue in, and hold, enjoy and exercise the said Office during their natural Lives respectively, or until they shall be respectively removed out of the said Office, pursuant and according to the said By-laws, Rules, Ordinances and Constitutions of the said Company of Barbers of _London_.