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No apothecary to take an apprentice, shopman, &c. without a certificate,
or take an apprentice for less than 7 years,
indentures to be enrolled as herein,
penalty 20l.
sums recovered to go to the use of the company.
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XXVI. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That if any apothecary within the kingdom of Ireland, shall after the twenty-fourth day of June, in the year aforesaid, have, take, indent, receive, or hire any person or persons as an apprentice or as a shopman, journeyman, foreman, overseer of his shop, or manager of his business as an apothecary, [or shall open shop or wareroom for the retail of medicine,] or practice the art and mystery of an apothecary within the kingdom of Ireland, without such person or persons having obtained the proper certificate for that purpose herein before directed; or shall take any apprentice for less time than seven years, whose indentures shall be enrolled in a book to be kept for that purpose by this corporation, for which the sum of one shilling shall be paid, such person so offending shall for every such offence forfeit the sum of twenty pounds, to be recovered by the governor and company of the apothecaries' hall of Dublin, by action of debt, suit, plaint, or information, in any of his Majesty's courts at Dublin, wherein no essoign, protection, privilege, injunction, wager of law, or stay of prosecution by non vult ulterius prosequi, shall be admitted or allowed, or any more than one imparlance, and the sums so recovered shall be and enure to the use of the said company.
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