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and organized the charter must have taken strangely small pains 
in the performance of their work, not to have ascertained it; 
since it was clearly their duty to have done so before they 
ventured to incorporate such presumed desiderata for the pro¬ 
fession into their charterial provisions. With these facts before 
us, for our own part we can see no reasonable grounds for en¬ 
tertaining a doubt on the desirableness of obtaining, if possible, 
certain “ exemptions” from “ the parochial and other services,” 
as stated in the Charter; and therefore have we not only no 
right to find fault with those who have done their best for ac¬ 
complishing such objects, albeit the sum that has been already 
expended in the present condition of the College finances most 
unquestionably is a formidable one; but, on the contrary, we 
are indebted to them for their laudable exertions. And should 
any further large sums be required to prosecute the question, it 
would probably rather be desirable to make a general call on 
the profession for such specific purpose than to make any further 
drain on the treasury of the Royal College—a call, if we mistake 
not, that would be cheerfully and readily answered. 
A question having been raised as to the legal position in 
which surgeons and physicians stand in regard to “ exemp¬ 
tions,” we have procured the Act of Parliament, alluded to by 
Mr. Robinson, intituled “An Act for Consolidating and Amend¬ 
ing the Laws relative to Jurors and Juries,” dated 2*2d of June, 
1825, in which we find it laid down,— 
“ Whereas the laws relative to the Qualification and Sum¬ 
moning of Jurors, and the formation of Juries in England and 
Wales, are very numerous and complicated, and it is expedient 
to consolidate and simplify the same, and to increase the number 
of persons qualified to serve on juries, and to alter the mode of 
striking special juries, and in some other respects to amend the 
said laws; be it therefore enacted by the King’s most Excellent 
Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spi¬ 
ritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament 
assembled, and by the authority of the same, That every Man, 
except as hereinafter excepted, between the ages of Twent\'-one 
years and Sixty years, residing in any county in England, who 
shall have in his own name, or in trust for him, within the same 
county, Ten Pounds by the year above Reprizes, in Lands or 
