II. And it is hereby further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That it shall and may be lawful to and for the said Company or Corporation herein before established and incorporated, from time to time, in the Manner herein after mentioned, to elect, choose, and appoint one principal Master or Governor, two other Governors or Wardens, ten Examiners of Surgeons, and twenty-one Persons to be the Court of Assistants of the said Company or Corporation, to be respectively qualified and admitted in such Manner, and to continue in the said Offices respectively, for such Time and Times respectively, as by the By-laws, Rules, Ordinances, and Constitutions of the said Company or Corporation, shall be, from time to time, ordered, directed, provided and appointed.
III. And it is hereby further enacted, That it shall and may be lawful to and for the Master and Governors of the said Company or Corporation for the Time being, or any two of them, with nine or more of the Members of the said Court of Assistants of the same Company for the Time being, when and as often as to two of the said Master and Governors shall seem meet, to hold Courts and Assemblies, in order to treat and consult about and concerning the Rule, Order, State, and Government of the said Company or Corporation herein before established and incorporated as aforesaid; and also that it shall and may be lawful to and for the said Master and Governors and Court of Assistants so assembled, or the major Part of them, to make, ordain, constitute, establish, ratify, confirm, annul, revoke, or abrogate, from time to time, such By-laws, Ordinances, Rules, and Constitutions, as to them shall seem requisite, profitable, and convenient for the Regulation, Government, and Advantage of the said Company or Corporation; so as such By-laws, Ordinances, Rules, and Constitutions be examined, approved of, and allowed, as by the Laws and Statutes of this Realm is provided and required.
IV. Provided always, and it is hereby enacted and declared, That the several By-laws, Ordinances, Rules, and Constitutions, made and established for the Regulation and Government of the said United Company or Corporation, so far as the same relate to, or concern the Art and Science of Surgery only, and which, on the twenty-third day of _June_ one thousand seven hundred and forty-five, shall be subsisting, and in Force, and shall not be repealed, annulled, or abrogated by virtue of this present Act, shall continue and be in Force; and shall be exercised, observed, and executed by the said Company of Surgeons established and incorporated by this Act, until such Time and Times respectively as the same By-laws, Ordinances, Rules, and Constitutions shall respectively be repealed, annulled, and made void, by virtue and under the Authority of this present Act.