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32 H. 8, CAP. 40, PHYSICIANS' PRIVILEGE. 481 Act, shall be discharged, to keep any Watch or Ward in your said City of London, or the Suburbs of the same, or any part thereof; (3) and that they or any of them shall not be chosen Constable, or any other Officer in the said City or Suburbs; (4) and that if any time hereafter the said President for the time being, or any of the said Commons, or Fellows for the time being, by any ways or means, be appointed or elected to any Watch or Ward, Office of Constable, or any other Office within the said City or Suburbs, the same Appointment or Election to be utterly void and of none effect; any Order, Custom, or Law to the contrary before This time used in the said City notwithstanding. II. And that it may please your most Royal Majesty, by the Authority aforesaid, That it may be further enacted, or- dained, and established, for the common Wealth and Surety of your loving Subjects of this your Realm, in and for the Ad- ministration of Medicines to such your said Subjects as shall have need of the same, That from henceforth the said Presi- dent for the time being. Commons, and Fellows, and their Suc- cessors, may yearly, at such time as they shall think most meet and convenient for the same, elect and choose four persons of the said Commons and Fellows, of the best learned, wisest, and most discreet, such as they shall think convenient, and have Experience in the said Faculty of Physick; (2) and that the said four persons so elected and chosen, after a corporal Oath to them ministered by the said President, or his Deputy, shall and may, by virtue of this present Act, have full Authority and Power, as often as they shall think meet and convenient, to enter into the House or Houses of all and every Apothecary, now, or any time hereafter using the Mystery or Craft of Apothecary within the said City, only to search, view, and see such Apothecary Wares, Drugs, and Stuffs, as the Apothe- caries,* or any of them have, or at any time hereafter shall 362 have in their House or Houses; (3) and all such Wares, Drugs, and Stuffs, as the said four persons shall then find defective, corrupted, and not meet nor convenient to be ministered in any Medicines for the Health of Man's Body, the same four persons calling to them the Wardens of the said Mystery of Apothe- caries within the said City for that time being, or one of them, shall cause to be brent, or otherwise destroy the same, as they shall think meet by their Discretion; (4) and if the said (31) |
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