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APOTHECARIES ACT, DUBLIN. - 
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 practise 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 hereinbefore 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 ulierius 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. 
27. And provided also, that nothing herein contained shall extend or be 
construed to extend to any apprentice or shopman, or apothecary’s foreman, 
or owner of the shop, or manager in or about the business of an apothecary 
as aforesaid, who shall appear to have been really and bond Jicle taken, re¬ 
ceived, indented, or hired, or to have opened shop before the passing of this 
Act. 
28. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that no apothe¬ 
cary within the kingdom of Ireland, from the twenty-fourth day of June, one 
thousand seven hundred and ninety-one, shall grind, compound, sell, or keep 
any arsenic, oils, or colours for painters’ use, in the shop or room wherein he 
compounds medicines, under a penalty of five pounds, the same to be forfeited, 
and go to the use and fund of the governor and company of the apothecaries’ 
hall of Dublin, to be recovered by them in the same manner, and with the 
like restrictions as the other penalties under this Act. 
29. And be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, that this Act shall in all 
courts and places be deemed and taken to be a public Act, and shall be judi¬ 
cially taken notice of by all judges, justices, and courts whatsoever, without 
specially pleading the same. 
30. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that every apo¬ 
thecary, druggist, or other such person selling any quantity less than one 
pound weight of arsenic, shall at the time of such sale, and before delivering, 
enter in a book to be kept for that purpose, the quantity sold, and the time 
when it was so sold, to which entry the person buying shall sign his or her 
name, addition, and place of abode ; or in case such person so purchasing 
cannot write, the name, addition, and place of abode of such person being 
first written, such person shall set his or her name thereto, and the same shall 
be attested by such apothecary or druggist, or some other person present; 
and in case such apothecary or druggist shall not know the person buying to 
be of such name, or place of abode, then such apothecary or druggist shall 
not deliver such arsenic until it shall be certified to him by some' person 
known to such apothecary or druggist, that the person buying is the same as 
he or she describes himself or herself to be and in case any apothecary or 
druggist selling arsenic shall fail herein, he or she shall forfeit the sum of 
twenty pounds, to be recovered as hereinafter mentioned. 
31. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that in case any 
mischief shall arise to the person or property of any individual by means of 
such arsenic so sold, and that such apothecary or druggist so selling shall 
happen to die, then and in such case such book shall be received as evidence 
in any court criminal or civil in this kingdom, of the sale and delivery of such 
arsenic to such person so signing, upon any trial to be had at law respecting 
such mischief, the handwriting of such person so signing being first proved 
in the usual way. 
an appren¬ 
tice, shop¬ 
man, etc., 
without a 
certificate; 
or take an 
apprentice 
for less than 
7 years; 
indentures to 
be enrolled 
as herein; 
penalty £20. 
Sums reco¬ 
vered to go 
to the use of 
the Com¬ 
pany. 
Not to ex¬ 
tend to ap¬ 
prentices, 
shopmen, 
owners of 
shops, etc., 
who were 
really so be¬ 
fore the 
passing of 
this Act. 
Arsenic, oils, 
or colours 
not to be 
kept where 
medicines 
are com¬ 
pounded, 
penalty £5* 
A public 
Act. 
Persons 
buying and 
selling less 
than one 
pound of 
arsenic to 
enter and 
sign as 
herein. 
Arsenic not 
to be sold to 
persons not 
known. 
Penalty £20. 
If mischief 
shall arise by 
arsenic so 
sold, and the 
Apothecary 
to die, such 
book to be 
received as 
evidence. 
