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Preamble,
persons herein named subscribed 100l. each, towards erecting a hall,
company of apothecaries to consist of a governor, deputy governor, 13 directors, and the subscribers.
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WHEREAS not only many but great inconveniencies have arisen from the want of an hall amply supplied with medicines of the purest quality, prepared under the inspection of persons well skilled in the art and mystery of such preparations, but also frequent frauds and abuses have been imposed and practised on many of his Majesty's subjects within the city of Dublin, and the liberties thereof, and in other parts of the kingdom of Ireland, by the ignorance and unskilfulness of divers persons pretending to the art and mystery of an apothecary, to the injury of the fair trader, the disappointment of the physician, and the imminent hazard of the lives of his Majesty's faithful and loyal subjects throughout the realm; and whereas the master, wardens, and commonalty of the corporation of apothecaries, and other apothecaries of the city of Dublin, have by their petition, humbly prayed that an act be passed, enabling them to raise a fund for the purpose of erecting such hall, with such clauses, powers, jurisdictions, and authorities as may in future prevent such frauds and abuses, and thereby tend to preserve the health of his Majesty's subjects; and in as much as Henry Hunt, Anthony Thompson, John Hastings, Peter Kelly, George Kiernan, Richard Magan, James Mc'Laughlin, Daniel Moore, John Pentland, Foden Perrin, Robert Powell, Stephen Reynolds, Charles Ryan, John Usher, and Richard Usher, have each subscribed the sum of one hundred pounds for the purpose of creating a fund for the erection of such hall, be it enacted by the King's most excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the lords spiritual and temporal, and commons in this present parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, That from henceforth, there shall be within the city of Dublin, and suburbs and liberties thereof, one company or fraternity of judicious apothecaries well skilled in preparing and compounding of medicines, to consist of one governor, a deputy governor, and thirteen directors, and the subscribers.
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