_Provided always, and be it Enacted_, That no person to be by the Master, Wardens, and Assistants for the time being, chosen and appointed a Member of the Court of Examiners, or to be by the Master and Wardens nominated and assigned to go and enter into any Shop or Shops, for the purposes aforesaid, within the City of _London_, the Liberties or Suburbs thereof, or within Thirty Miles of the same, shall be deemed to be properly qualified, unless he shall be a Member of the Society of Apothecaries aforesaid, of not less than Ten Years standing; nor shall any person be deemed to be properly qualified to be nominated and assigned to go and enter into any Shop or Shops in any other part of _England_ and _Wales_ for the purposes aforesaid, or to be appointed one of the Five Apothecaries hereinafter mentioned, and directed to be appointed for the purpose of examining Assistants to Apothecaries in compounding and dispensing Medicines, as hereinafter is mentioned, except he shall have been an Apothecary in actual practice for not less than Ten Years at least, previously to his being so nominated, or assigned, or appointed. _And whereas_ it is the duty of every Person using or exercising the Art and Mystery of an Apothecary, to prepare with exactness, and to dispense such Medicines as may be directed for the sick by any Physician lawfully licensed to practise Physic by the President and Commonalty of the Faculty of Physic in _London_, or by either of the two Universities of _Oxford_ or _Cambridge_; therefore, for the further protection, security, and benefit of His Majesty’s Subjects, and for the better regulation of the practice of Physic throughout _England_ and _Wales_, _Be it Enacted_, That if any Person using or exercising the Art and Mystery of an Apothecary, shall at any time knowingly, wilfully, and contumaciously refuse to make, mix, compound, prepare, give, apply, or administer, or any way to sell, set on sale, put forth, or put to sale to any Person or Persons whatever, any Medicines, compound Medicines, or medicinable Compositions, or shall deliberately or negligently, falsely, unfaithfully, fraudulently, or unduly make, mix, compound, prepare, give, apply or administer, or any way sell, set on sale, put forth, or put to sale to any Person or Persons whatever, any Medicines, Compound Medicines, or Medicinable Compositions, as directed by any Prescription, Order or Receipt, signed with the initials in his own hand-writing, of any Physician so lawfully licensed to practise Physic, such person or persons so offending, shall, upon complaint made within Twenty-one Days by such Physician, and upon conviction of such offence before any of His Majesty’s Justices of the Peace, unless such Offender can shew some satisfactory reason, excuse, or justification in this behalf, forfeit, for the first offence the Sum of Five Pounds; for the second offence the Sum of Ten Pounds; and for the third offence he shall forfeit his