The Medical Practitioners Act 1876
CHAPTER 40 PREAMBLE: WHEREAS under the provisions of the statute of the thirty-sixth year of the reign of King George the Third, chapter nine, of the Parliament of Ireland, no person is capable of being elected surgeon to a county infirmary or hospital in Ireland who shall not previously have obtained letters testimonial of his qualification under the seal of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland: And whereas it is desirable that all legally qualified medical practitioners, with qualificat...