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Two examiners with one assistant, shall 4 times a year, or oftener if occasion, by day inspect shops, &c. and examine drugs, medicines, or chemical preparations:
if any appear unsound, adulterated, dishonestly or unskilfully prepared, to be seized and destroyed by the college beadle.
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>VII. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said examiners, or any two of them, with the said assistant apothecaries, or one of them, shall have full power and authority, and are hereby required, four times at least in the year or oftner, if they shall see occasion, in the day-time to enter and inspect all and every shop, ware or store-house, cellar, vault, room or rooms, elaboratories, or other repositories, of what kind or denomination soever, appertaining to apothecaries, chemists, druggists, or other person or persons whatsoever, who now do or hereafter shall buy and sell, expose to sale, or keep for that purpose, any manner of drugs, simple or compound medicines, used or to be used for medicines for the health of man's body, and therein strictly to search for, and fully and fairly to examine, the nature and quality of all and every kind of drug, simple or compound medicine, or chemical preparation, used or to be used for medicine as aforesaid; and in case the said examiners shall find in such search and inspection any kind of drug, simple or compound medicine, or chemical preparation, which to the best of their judgments shall appear unsound, corrupt, adulterated, or unfaithfully, dishonestly, or unskilfully compounded, or otherwise prepared so as to be rendered unwholesome or unfit to be used as medicine for the health of man's body, all and every drug and medicine by the said examiners adjudged corrupt or defective, as aforesaid, to condemn and seize upon, and see burned, or otherwise totally destroyed, by the hands of the beadle of the said college of physicians, or any other person or persons by the examiners for the time being appointed for that purpose.
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