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To prevent abuses in remote parts,
chief magistrate, unless an apothecary, &c. and then the sheriffs, or 2 justices of any city, or 2 justices of a county, nearest to any town whose chief magistrate is an apothecary, &c. or where no magistrate may summon 2 or more doctors of physick, graduates, or licentiates, and administer the oath aforesaid,
who, with the chief magistrate, may inspect shops, &c. and examine, seize, destroy, as aforesaid;
saving appeal to the college.
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>XV. And for the better preventing and punishing frauds and abuses in the preparing, compounding, and vending of drugs and medicines in the more remote parts of this kingdom; be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That it may and shall be lawful for the chief magistrate of every city, borough, or town corporate for the time being, unless he or they happen to follow the art, business, or occupation of an apothecary, chemist, or druggist, in all or any of their branches, and then for the sheriffs of any city, or any two justices of the peace of any city, or for any two justices of the peace of a county, who live nearest to any borough or any town, whose chief magistrate happens to follow the art, business, or occupation of an apothecary, chemist, or druggist, or in the towns, where no magistrate resides, to summon any two or more doctors of physick, graduates of Oxford, Cambridge, Edinburgh, or of any other university of Great Britain, Leyden, or Dublin, or licentiates of the King and Queen's College of Physicians in Ireland, and to administer to each and every of them the examiner's oath herein before mentioned; which physicians so summoned or sworn, being no less than two in number, with the chief magistrate of the city or town shall have full power and authority to search and inspect all and every shop, store or warehouse, elaboratory, or other repository, of all and every apothecary, chemist, and druggist, and of all and every person or persons, who now do or hereafter shall prepare, compound for sale, sell, expose to sale, or keep for that purpose, any kind of drug, simple or compound medicine, chemical or other preparation, used or to be used for medicine, and to examine all such drugs and medicines together with all the utensils, measures, scales, and weights, and to seize and destroy all such drugs and medicines, utensils, measures, scales, and weights, as they shall find, and adjudge unsound, adulterate, corrupt, unwholesome, defective, or otherwise unlawful; saving nevertheless to the party the benefit of an appeal to the college of physicians in Dublin.
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