_And be it further Enacted_, That for the purposes of this Act, it shall and may be lawful to and for the said Master and Wardens for the time being, or to and for the said Court of Examiners, by writing under their hands, from time to time to appoint Five Apothecaries in any County or Counties respectively throughout _England_ and _Wales_ (except within the said City of _London_, the Liberties or Suburbs thereof, or within Thirty Miles of the same), to act for such County or Counties, or any other County or Counties near or adjoining, and to remove or displace them from time to time, as they the said Master and Wardens, or the said Court of Examiners, shall deem adviseable; and such Five Apothecaries so to be appointed respectively, as aforesaid, at any Meeting to be held by them as hereinafter mentioned, shall have full power and authority, and are hereby authorized and empowered to examine, all Assistants to Apothecaries throughout the County or Counties in regard of which such Apothecaries shall have been so appointed as aforesaid, and to grant or refuse such Certificate to every such Assistant to Apothecaries, as hereinbefore is authorized in that behalf; and a Meeting of the said Apothecaries, for the purposes aforesaid, shall be held monthly in the County Town of some one of the Counties for which they shall have been appointed to act as aforesaid; and that no act of such Apothecaries shall be, or be deemed to be good or valid, unless the same be done at some such Meeting; and that all the Powers and Authorities by this Act granted to or vested in such Five Apothecaries, shall and may from time to time be exercised by the major part of them, who shall attend at any Meeting to be holden as above directed, the number of such Apothecaries present at any such Meeting not being less than Three; and all the Orders, Directions, and Certificates of the major part of such Apothecaries present at any such Meeting, shall have the same force and effect as if the same were made, done, or signed by all the said Five Apothecaries for the time being; and at every such Meeting of the said Apothecaries, a Chairman shall and may be appointed, and when, and so often as it shall so happen that there shall be an equal number of Votes upon any one question (including the Vote of the said Chairman) then and in such case, it shall and may be lawful to and for the said Chairman to give the casting, or decisive Vote.