APOTHECARIES ACT, DUBLIN. 
859 
or their respective offices; and if such governor, deputy governor, or directors, plaints ; 
shall not clear himself or themselves of such complaint, to the satisfaction of 0 g^” 1 or ’ 
the major part of the members of the said corporation in the said general not acquit 
court assembled, that then within ten days another general court shall be himself, 
called, finally to determine same by the majority of their votes as aforesaid, } 
who may remove or displace all or any of the governor, deputy governor, or called within 
directors, for such misdemeanours or abuse of their offices, and elect and io days to 
choose others in his or their room, in the same manner as the said elections determine; 
are hereinbefore directed to be made ; and in every case where any governor, ^^may’be 
deputy governor, or director, shall happen to die or be removed, or his office removed for 
shall otherwise become void before the expiration of the time for which he Abuse of 
shall have been elected, it shall and may be lawful for the major part of the 
members of the said corporation assembled in a general court, to elect and norj e ( tc 
choose any other member of the said corporation into the office of such go- shall die or 
veruor, deputy governor, or director, that shall so die or be removed, or whose be removed, 
office shall become void, which person so to be chosen shall continue in the ^euntfershall 
said office until the next usual time hereby appointed for election, and until be chosen to 
others shall be duly chosen and sworn. the Office. 
14. And for the better ordering and managing the affairs of the said cor- Q. overnora 
poration, it is hereby enacted by the authority aforesaid, that it shall and may atld Direc . 
be lawful for the said governor, deputy governor, and directors, for the time tors, or any 
being, or any five or more of them, of which the governor or deputy governor 5 of them, 
to be always one, except as hereinafter mentioned, from time to time, and at ^yoonve^ 
all convenient times to assemble and meet together at any convenient place nient place 
or places, until such hall shall be erected, and afterwards at such hall for the until a hall 
direction or management of the affairs and business of the said corporation, 
and then and there to hold courts of directors for the purposes aforesaid, and at 3Ucb bail, 
to summon general courts to meet as often as they shall see cause ; and that there to 
the said governor, deputy governor, and directors, or the major part of them transact 
so assembled, whereof the governor or deputy governor is to be always one, j^ 3 ^ S3 a3 
except as hereinafter mentioned, shall and may act according to such by-laws, 
constitutions, orders, rules, or directions, as shall from time to time be made 
and given unto them by the general court of the said corporation ; and in all Where By- 
cases where such by-laws, constitutions, orders, rules, or directions, by or from ^ a ^ t a il ^ e Go 
the general court shall be wanting, the said governor, deputy governor, and vernors’and 
directors, or the major part of them so assembled, w'hereof the governor or Directors 
deputy governor shall be always one, except as hereinafter mentioned, shall may manage 
and may direct and manage all the affairs and business of the said company, as erem > 
and choose agents and servants, which shall from time to time be necessary to 
be employed in the affairs and business of the said company, and allow and 
pay reasonable salaries and allowances to the said agents and servants respec¬ 
tively, and them or any of them from time to time to remove or displace as 
they shall see cause, and generally to act and do in all matters and things and execute 
whatsoever, which they shall judge necessary for the well ordering and ma- Powers, 
naging of the said company and the affairs thereof, and to do, enjoy, perform, g a ^’ e a ^ere 9 
and execute all the powers, authorities, privileges, acts, and things in relation done by the 
to the said company, as fully to all intents and purposes as if the same w r ere Governor, 
done by the governor, deputy governor, and company of the apothecaries’ a 
hall, or by a general court of the same. 
15. Provided nevertheless, and it is hereby further enacted, that when any When the 
general court or courts of directors of the said company shall be assembled, 
according to due summons or appointment, in case the said governor and de- b g JV ‘ 
puty governor shall be absent from such meeting one hour after the time ap- absent as 
pointed in such summons or appointment for the proceeding to business, or herein, 11 
sooner if the said governor and deputy governor shall signify by writing that ^ a al b “ au 
they are incapacitated from attending said meeting by sickness or otherwise, chosen for 
that then and in every such case it shall and may be lawful for every such that time 
general court and courts of directors respectively, to choose a chairman for oul J- 
that time only, and to proceed to business, and to transact the affairs of the 
said company, and that the transactions of the said general court of directors Transactions 
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