| Summary: | Contract of August 1906 between the Birmingham Medical College and the Board of Lady Managers of Hillman Hospital. This 3-page document is unsigned and might have been a working draft.The digitization of this collection was funded in part by a grant from the National Library of Medicine.State of Alabama,
Jefferson County.
For and in consideration of the annullment [sic] of the contract bearing date of April 2nd, 1902, by and between the Board of Lady Managers of the Hillman Hospital, a body corporate, therein and hereinafter called party of the first part, and the Birmingham Medical College, a body corporate, therein and hereinafter called party of the second part, said parties have entered into the following agreement:
FIRST: That the agreement hereinafter set out between party of the first part and party of the second part shall continue for the full term of seven collegiate years, said term to begin the first day of October, 1906, and to end on the thirty-first day of March, 1913.
SECOND: That during the term of this contract, the Board of Directors of the party of the second part shall recommend the visiting staff of physicians and surgeons to the Hillman Hospital thirty days before the beginning of each of its collegiate sessions, and the members of the staff so recommended shall be elected by the party of the first part as visiting staff to said Hospital for the session for which they have been recommended, unless objection be made to one or more of the members of such staff, of which objection party of the first part shall give written notice to party of the second part, and within ten days after receiving such written notice, party of the second part, through its Board of Directors, as aforesaid, shall recommend another or other members of said staff to take the place of those to whom objection has been made.
It is further agreed that in the event the Directors of the party of the second part fail or neglect at the beginning of the College year or before to name the visiting staff for the Hillman Hospital and for ten days after notice, then the party of the first part may proceed to elect the same either from or out of the Faculty of the Medical College.
THIRD: Party of the first part further agrees, during the term of this contract, to allow students of said Medical College to attend clinics held on its patients in said Hospital when such patients do not object thereto.
FOURTH: Party of the second part agrees to give, during each of its collegiate sessions embraced in this contract, if desired by party of the first part, courses of lectures from the different members of its faculty, to the nurses of said Hospital Training School, free of charge.
FIFTH: Party of the second part agrees to do the bacteriological and pathological work in said Hospital free of charge during the collegiate sessions embraced in this contract.
SIXTH: Party of the second part, during its collegiate sessions embraced in this contract, agrees to pay party of the first part Three ($3.00) Dollars for each day’s surgical clinical use made by it of the amphitheatre or operating room of said Hospital when such fee is not paid by patients, such surgical clinical use to be made at two o’clock p.m. of each day during its collegiate sessions embraced in this contract, except when operating room is being used for an emergency case, when another hour may be named by the Hospital Superintendent; but after the collegiate session of 1906-1907, the hour for such use may be changed by mutual consent of both parties.
SEVENTH: It is further agreed by and between parties of the first and second part that immediately upon the execution of this contract, party of the first part will convey to party of the second part by an absolute deed of conveyance, Lot No. Six (6) in Block No. One Hundred and Eighty-Seven (187), according to the plan and survey of the City of Birmingham, Alabama, by the Elyton Land Company, said lot fronting fifty (50) feet on the South side of Avenue F and extending back of that uniform width one hundred and ninety (190) feet to an alley, being the lot upon which the college building of party of the second part now stands, together with the improvements thereon.
In consideration of this agreement, in the event the party of the second part decides to sell its said college property, it is agreed to give the party of the first part an opportunity to buy the same upon the same terms other purchasers can or may purchase; that is, before selling, it will the party of the first part notice that its property is for sale, that it may become a purchaser if it elects so to become.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, parties of the first and second part have hereunto signed their names and affixed their official seals, on this the _____ day of August, 1906, the said Board of Lady Managers of the Hillman Hospital by _______________________ , and the said Birmingham Medical College by _____________________, both of whom are thereunto duly and legally authorized.
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By _______________________
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By _______________________
Office of Frank S. White & Sons
Attorneys-At-Law
Birmingham – Alabama
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