_And also_ so much of the said recited Charter as directs, That the aforesaid Master and Wardens of the Mystery aforesaid, and the said Assistants for the time being, thereunto nominated and appointed by the Master and Wardens, and their Successors from time to time, may have, and by virtue of these Presents, shall have full power and authority to examine and try all and singular Persons professing, using, or exercising, or which hereafter shall profess, use, or exercise the Art or Mystery of Apothecaries, or any part thereof, within the aforesaid City of _London_, the Liberties or Suburbs thereof, or within Seven Miles of the same City, as well within Liberties as without, touching or concerning their and every of their knowledge, skill, and science, in the aforesaid Art or Mystery of Apothecaries, and to remove and prohibit all those from the exercise, use, or practice of the said Art or Mystery, whom hereafter they shall find either unskilful, ignorant, or insufficient, or obstinate, or refusing to be examined by virtue of these Presents, in the Art or Mystery aforesaid. And also all and singular Medicines, Wares, Drugs, Receipts, Distilled Waters, Oils, Chemical Preparations, Syrups, Conserves, Lohocks, Electuaries, Pills, Powders, Lozenges, Oils, Ointments, and Plaisters, and all other things belonging to the aforesaid Art, which they shall find unlawful, deceitful, stale, out of use, unwholesome, corrupt, unmedicinable, pernicious, or hurtful, to burn before the Offender’s Doors. And also to lay, impose, and exact Mulcts, and other Pains and Penalties, by Fines and Amerciaments, upon such Offenders, according to their sound discretions, and the Ordinances by them and their Successors so as aforesaid to be made and appointed, shall be, and the same is hereby repealed.
_And be it further Enacted_, That in lieu and stead thereof, the said Master, Wardens, and Society of Apothecaries for the time being, and their Successors, or any of the Assistants, or any other person or persons properly qualified, as hereinafter is mentioned, to be by the Master and Wardens nominated and assigned, not being fewer in number than Two Persons at the least, shall and may from time to time, and at all seasonable and convenient times, in the day time, as often as to the said Master and Wardens it shall seem expedient, go and enter into any Shop or Shops, of any person or persons whatever, using or exercising the Art or Mystery of an Apothecary in any part of _England_ or _Wales_; and shall and may search, survey, prove, and determine, if the Medicines, simple or compound, Wares, Drugs, or any thing or things whatsoever therein contained, and belonging to the Art or Mystery of Apothecaries aforesaid, be wholesome, meet, and fit for the cure, health, and ease of His Majesty’s Subjects; and all and every such Medicines, Wares, Drugs, and all other things belonging to the aforesaid Art, which they shall find false, unlawful, deceitful, stale, unwholesome, corrupt, pernicious or hurtful, shall and may burn, or otherwise destroy; and also shall and may report to the Master, Wardens, and Assistants of the said Society, the Name or Names of such person or persons as shall be found to have the same in their possession; and the said Master, Wardens, and Assistants, shall and may impose and levy the following Fines and Penalties upon each and every person whose Name shall be so reported to them, as hereinafter mentioned: For the first offence the Sum of Five Pounds; for the second offence the Sum of Ten Pounds; and for the third, and every other offence, the Sum of Twenty Pounds.