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succeeding offence 20/. It is expressly declared, § G, to be 

 " the duty of every person using or exercising the art and mys- 

 tery of an apothecary, to prepare with exactness, and to dispense 

 such medicines as may be directed for the sick by any physician 

 laicfidly licensed to practise physic ;'''' and it directs apothecaries 

 refusing to compound, or unlawfully compounding such medi- 

 cines, to be fined upon the complaint of a physician, the first 

 time 5/., the second 10/., and the third to be rendered incapable 

 of practising " as an apothecary," unless he promises, and gives 

 sufficient security, not to offend in future. Persons not already 

 in practice on August 1, 1815, to be examined by twelve 

 persons, appointed by the Society of Apothecaries, " to ascertain 

 the skill and abilities of such person or persons in the science 

 and practice of medicine, and his or their fitness and qualifi- 

 cation to practise as an apothecary : " who are " empowered 

 either to reject such person, or to grant a certificate of his 

 qualification.'' None to be allowed but those who are twenty- 

 one years old, who have served an apprenticeship of not Jess 

 than five years to an apothecary, and who shall produce testi- 

 monials of a sufficient medical education and of good moral 

 conduct. Assistants who have not served a five years apprentice- 

 ship to be examined either by the Society, or by apothecaries 

 to be appointed in each county for that purpose. Each apothe- 

 cary to pay 10/. 105. for a licence for London and ten miles 

 round, or 6/. 65. for a country licence, and 4/. 45. in addition, if 

 he moves to London, and each assistant 21. 2s. Apothecaries 

 acting without licence to forfeit 20/. for each offence, and assist- 

 ants 5/., and not to recover charges in any court of law, unless 

 it is first proved on the trial that he is duly licensed, or was in 

 practice before August 1, 1815. If the examiners refuse a 

 licence to a person, he may apply again in not less than six 

 months for an apothecary's licence, or three months for an 

 assistant's; and "if on such re-examination he" appears "to 

 be properly qualified," the examiners to grant a licence. (No 

 mention is made of rejection on this re-examination, nor of any 

 other than this second application.) A list to be published 

 annually of those licensed in that preceding year, with their re- 

 spective residences. This part of the Act has not been complied 

 with, nor indeed would it afford much information, as the resi- 



