Medical Jurisprudence, Volume 3 (of 3)Paris, John Ayrton
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Medical Jurisprudence, Volume 3 (of 3)
Paris, John Ayrton
Medical laws and legislation -- Great Britain
V. And further, be it enacted by the Authority aforesaid, for the better
Execution of the Search and view of Poticary Wares, Drugs and
Compositions, according to the Tenor of a Statute made in the xxxii Year
of the Reign of the said late King _Henry_ the Eighth, That it shall be
lawful for the Wardens of the Grocers, or one of them, to go with the
said Physicians in their View and Search, that if the said Warden or
Wardens do refuse his or their coming thereunto, forthwith and
immediately, when the said President or four of his College elect, as
aforesaid, do call upon him or them, that then the said Physicians may
and shall execute that Search and View, and the due Punishment of the
Poticaries for any their evil and faulty Stuff, according to the Statute
last before mentioned, without the Assistance of any of the said
Wardens; any Clause in the aforenamed Statute to the contrary hereof
notwithstanding. And every such Person or Persons as will or shall
resist such Search, shall forfeit for every such resistance Ten Pound;
the same Penalty to be recovered in Form aforesaid, without any of the
delays aforesaid, to be had in suit thereof.
VI. And further, be it enacted, That all Justices, Mayors, Sheriffs,
Bailiffs, Constables, and other Ministers and Officers, within the City
and Precincts above written, upon Request to them made, shall help and
assist the President of the said College, and all Persons by them from
time to time authorised for the due Execution of the said Acts or
Statutes, upon Pain for not giving of such Aid, Help, and Assistance, to
run in Contempt of the Queen’s Majesty, her Heirs and Successors.
6th & 7th _Will._ 3. _c._ 4.
An Act for exempting Apothecaries from serving the Offices of Constable,
Scavenger, and other Parish and Ward Offices, and from serving upon
Juries.
‘Whereas the Act of the Apothecary is of great and general Use and
Benefit, by reason of their constant and necessary Assistance of his
Majesty’s Subjects, which should oblige them solely to attend the Duty
of their Professions; yet by reason that they are compelled to serve
several Parish, Ward, and Leet Offices, in the Places where they live,
and are frequently summoned to serve on Juries and Inquests, which take
up great Part of their Time, they cannot perform the Trusts reposed in
them as they ought, nor attend the Sick with such Diligence as is
required: And whereas, King _JAMES_ the First, by His Letters Patents
under the Great Seal of _England_, did incorporate the Apothecaries
exercising that Art within _London_, and seven Miles Compass, by the
Name of _The Master, Wardens, and Society of the Art and Mystery of the
Apothecaries of the City of London_:’
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