APOTHECARIES ACT, DUBLIN. 
861 
Dublin, or the suburbs or liberties thereof, who shall be so minded to purchase 
the share of such deceased member, upon paying the personal representative 
of such deceased member the full value of the share of such deceased mem¬ 
ber, and entry thereof shall be made in the book or books to be kept for that 
purpose, which shall contain the abstract of the probate of the will, or letters 
of administration under which said representative acts, and also a receipt for 
the purchase money, to be signed by such personal representative, or by some 
person for that purpose thereunto lawfully authorized; and all such transfers 
shall be good and available in law, and convey the whole estate and interest 
of the person so transferring or ordering the same to be transferred. 
18. And inasmuch as many dangerous and fatal consequences have hereto¬ 
fore arisen from the practice of taking as apprentices to the art and mystery 
of an apothecary, boys or persons disqualified by the want of proper educa¬ 
tion, to prepare or vend medicine, not being capable of learning their nature, 
difference, effects, and qualities, to the imminent hazard of the lives of his 
Majesty’s faithful and loyal subjects, be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, 
that from and after the twenty-fourth day of June, in the year one thousand 
seven hundred and ninety-one, no person or persons shall be received, taken, 
indented, or employed as an apprentice, foreman, or shopman to any apothe¬ 
cary throughout the kingdom of Ireland, until he or they shall be examined 
by the governor or deputy governor and directors of the apothecaries’ hall of 
Dublin, any five to make a quorum, who are hereby authorized and required 
to examine into the education and qualifications of such person or persons 
who shall apply to them for that purpose, and the majority of such examiners 
are hereby authorized and empowered after such examination to certify that 
such person or persons so applying to them, as shall appear to such examiners 
properly qualified to become an apprentice or apprentices, journeyman or 
journeymen, to learn or transact the business of an apothecary, in the man¬ 
ner or to the effect following, that is to say :— 
“ To all to whom these presents shall come greeting, know ye, that we, 
the governor, deputy governor, and directors of the apothecaries’ hall of 
Dublin, have this day duly and carefully examined A. B., the son of C. D., 
of, or late of [as the case may 6e], in the county of and we 
think him properly educated or qualified to become an apprentice or journey¬ 
man [as the case may be~\ to learn or transact the business of an apothecary, 
and we do hereby certify the same. Given under our seal, the day 
of in the year of our Lord .” 
19. Provided nevertheless, that if such examiners, or the major part of 
them, shall see cause to refuse such certificate to any person applying to be¬ 
come an apprentice or shopman, yet it shall and may be lawful to and for 
such person or persons who shall be so refused, to apply at any future time, 
so as the same be not within six months of such first examination, to be again 
examined; and if on such second examination he shall appear to the ex¬ 
aminers, or the major part of them, to be then properly qualified, it shall and 
may be lawful for said examiners, or the major part of them, to grant such 
person so applying such certificate as hereinbefore mentioned. 
20. And it is further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that it shall and 
may be lawful for every person who shall consider himself aggrieved by the 
judgment or determination of the said examiners, or the major part of them, 
within ten days after such second determination, to appeal to the general 
council of the said company, or subscribers at large, and the governor, or in 
his absence the deputy governor, is hereby empowered and required thereupon 
to summon a general council, which shall proceed to examine the person so 
applying, and shall, as theyjor the major part of them shall see cause, affirm or 
reverse the judgment of such examiners, not less than fifteen members of said 
company being present; and if the members of said company, or the major 
part of them, on such re-examination shall be of opinion to reverse the de¬ 
termination of the examiners, then that it shall and may be lawful for the 
members of said company, or the major part of them present at such re-ex¬ 
amination, to grant to the person applying such certificate as before men- 
upou the 
death of a 
member, an 
Apothecary 
may pur¬ 
chase as 
before; 
value to be 
paid to the 
representa¬ 
tive; 
entry to be 
made as 
herein; 
all such 
transfers 
good in law. 
From 24th 
June, 1791, 
no appren¬ 
tice, tore- 
man, or 
shopman to 
be taken to 
any apothe¬ 
cary until he 
shall be ex¬ 
amined as 
herein; 
majority of 
examiners 
to certify as 
herein; 
Form of 
certificate. 
Persons re¬ 
fused a certi¬ 
ficate may be 
again exa¬ 
mined, after 
6 months; 
if then quali¬ 
fied, a certi¬ 
ficate may be 
granted. 
After second 
examination, 
person ag¬ 
grieved may 
appeal within 
10 days to 
the general 
Council, or 
Subscribers 
at large; 
General 
Council to 
affirm or re¬ 
verse judg¬ 
ment, 15 
members 
present; 
if a reversed, 
