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<HEAD>REASONS On BEHALF of the APOTHECARIES BILL: Humbly Submitted to the Con&s;ideration of this pre&s;ent Parliament. <HI>In An&s;wer to the City of</HI> London<HI>'s Petition again&s;t the &s;aid Bill.</HI></HEAD>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">The Con&s;ide|rations that induced the Apotheca<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ies to move for an Exemption from Publick Offices.</NOTE>_THE Apothecaries finding it very incon&s;i&s;tent, not only with their particular private Intere&s;t, but <HI>Dangerous</HI> to their re&s;pective Patients, <HI>in Per&s;on</HI> to &s;erve tho&s;e &s;everal Pari&s;h, Ward, and Leet Offices, and on Juries (to all which they are &s;ubject) in that they <HI>then</HI> could not &s;o well attend either in their re&s;pective <HI>Shops</HI> for the making and duly preparing their Medicines, nor on their <HI>Patients</HI> whil&s;t either the Doctor gave his Pre&s;criptions, or the Circum&s;tances of their Patients required it. They did therefore generally <HI>Fine</HI> to be exempted from &s;uch <HI>Per&s;o|nal</HI> Services.</P>
<P>But perceiving that the <HI>Charge</HI> of &s;uch Exemptions was very Expen&s;ive, and knowing that the Profe&s;&s;ion of the <HI>Common</HI> and <HI>Civil</HI> Law (in <HI>All</HI> their <HI>Branches</HI>) were <HI>excu&s;ed</HI> from &s;uch Services, and that the <HI>Phy&s;itians</HI> and <HI>Chirurgions</HI> were by particular <HI>Acts of Parliament di&s;charged</HI> from the <HI>like;</HI> and believing (and hoping to prove) <HI>that the Re<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;ons for the &s;ame Exemptions of Apothecaries were as great (if not <HI>greater</HI>) than for the Di&s;charge of any of tho&s;e,</HI> They did therefore (with all humble Submi&s;&s;ion) endeavour to procure a Bill for that purpo&s;e; the rea&s;onablene&s;s whereof may appear from the&s;e following (among&s;t many other) Con&s;iderations.</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">Rea&s;ons for the Bill.</NOTE><HI>Fir&s;t,</HI> The Apothecaries time is &s;o very precarious, that they have no <HI>certain Vacation,</HI> no not in any Hours of the Night, (appointed by God and Nature for a general Re&s;t) for being <HI>often</HI> called upon at <HI>all times,</HI> both Night and Day, either to prepare Medicines, according to the Doctors Pre&s;criptions, or to attend on their Patients on &s;ome particular Di&s;tempers, and <HI>upon all</HI> occa&s;ions on the Poore&s;t &s;ort, who have &s;carce any Money for <HI>Food,</HI> and <HI>none</HI> for Phy&s;icians or Phy&s;ick; for which rea&s;on it is not, with humble &s;ubmi&s;&s;ion,</P>
<P><HI>Secondly, Con&s;i&s;tent</HI> with the <HI>common Benefit</HI> of Mankind that the Apothecaries &s;hould in <HI>P<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">r&s;on</HI> &s;erve in either of the before O<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">fices or Du|ties; for <HI>whil&s;t</HI> they attend &s;uch Services, their <HI>Per&s;onal</HI> Attendance, either in their <HI>Shops</HI> for the &s;udden preparing &s;ome <HI>particular</HI> Medicines, or <HI>on their Patients</HI> upon &s;ome <HI>certein Exigencies,</HI> or on the <HI>Poore&s;t</HI> &s;ort, upon <HI>all,</HI> may and <HI>often</HI> doth appear &s;o very <HI>requi&s;ite,</HI> that the <HI>neglect</HI> thereof would be the <HI>Lo&s;s</HI> of the Patient.</P>
<P><HI>Thirdly,</HI> The <HI>Rea&s;on</HI> given by the 32. <HI>H<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">n.</HI> 8. <HI>cap.</HI> 40. for the exempting <HI>Phy&s;icians</HI> from tho&s;e &s;everal Duties, holds (with due &s;ubmi&s;&s;ion) in a <HI>greater</HI> degree good for the granting Apothecaries the &s;ame Immunities. &mdash; The preamble of that Statute in &s;ub&s;tance &s;ets for<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">h, <HI>That by the then Law, Phy&s;icians were Compelled to Serve in the before-mentioned Offices, by rea&s;on whereof, they could not give their Per&s;onal Attendance on the Nobility, Gentry, and Commonalty, in their re&s;pective &s;ickne&s;s, as the exigencies of the Sick did nece&s;&s;arily require.</HI> &mdash; Now con&s;idering <HI>how often</HI> the Apothecary <HI>Attends</HI> the greate&s;t in Quality when Sick, and <HI>all Ranks</HI> and Degrees of men in their re&s;pective Di&s;tempers, and to the <HI>Poore&s;t</HI> he mu&s;t either in Charity not only <HI>go,</HI> but <HI>give</HI> his Medicines, or they would Peri&s;h. It is &s;uppo&s;ed to need no proof that the Apothe|caries Attendance on the Sick <HI>(in <HI>All</HI> ca&s;es con&s;idered) takes up much <HI>more</HI> of his time, than the Phy&s;icians &s;pend upon the like occa&s;ions.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Fourthly,</HI> Not only <HI>Lawyers,</HI> but all <HI>Attorneys and Clerks</HI> of Offices are <HI>excu&s;ed</HI> by Common Law from &s;erving in either of the before In|&s;tances: And if it &s;o happen that any Attorney or Clerk either is (or &s;tands in danger of being) cho&s;en to any of tho&s;e Offices, the Court to which he belongs grants him a <HI>Writ of Privilege</HI> (directed to &s;uch whom it may concern) <HI>Commanding</HI> them that they <HI>excu&s;e</HI> &s;uch Attorney or Clerk not only from that particular Office to which they endeavour to chu&s;e him, but from all other Publick Offices; and that they chu&s;e &s;ome other fit Per&s;on to tho&s;e Employments. The Rea&s;on given in &s;uch Writs of Privilege, is to this effect; <HI>viz. That tho&s;e Per&s;ons by the Duty of their Profe&s;&s;ions being obliged to attend that Court to which they belong, in the Pro&s;ecution or Defence of their re&s;pective Clients Cau&s;es, it would extremely tend to the common Prejudice of the King's Subjects, that tho&s;e men &s;hould be called off from &s;uch their Prof<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;&s;ion, to tho&s;e common Offices that any el&s;e can as well &s;erve.</HI> Now the Pre&s;ervation of Property, and the procuring Satisfaction for Damage &s;u&s;tained (for which the Lawyers Profe&s;&s;ion is in&s;tituted) cannot (in the nature of things con&s;idered) ju&s;tly claim <HI>greater</HI> Privilege than this Bill would enact for <HI>&s;uch who&s;e Em|ployments it is to remove Sickne&s;&s;es and Pain (two Adver&s;aries more dreaded by, and hurtful to Mankind, than any the Attorneys can defend us from).</HI> Of all Natural Evi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">s, Pain and Sickne&s;s (next to Death) are e&s;teemed the greate&s;t; nay, &s;ometimes in exchange for tho&s;e this is de&s;ired. <HI>Health</HI> (of all Natural Ble&s;&s;ings the mo&s;t valuable) Mankind are daily <HI>pre&s;erved</HI> in, and <HI>recovered</HI> to, by Phy&s;ical Pre&s;criptions; and therefore a Profe&s;&s;ion in&s;tituted for tho&s;e mo&s;t <HI>Noble and Ine&s;timable</HI> Purpo&s;es, may rea&s;onably hope for all tho&s;e proper Encouragements and rea&s;onable Exemptions.</P>
<P><MILESTONE UNIT="Object."> It is commonly objected by the Petitioners, That the Apothecaries may be excu&s;ed from their Per&s;onal Services by their Fining (or procuring a Deputy); which Fines the Petitioners pretend are expended in the Relief of the Poor, or &s;ome other Publick Services.</P>
<P><MILESTONE UNIT="An&s;w."> Were tho&s;e Fines employed to the Purpo&s;es pretended, there then were greater Rea&s;ons for Fining, than now in truth there is: For in fact that which is here &s;aid to be laid out in tho&s;e Charitable and Publick Services, is generally (in the greate&s;t part thereof) &s;pent upon the Rich [the <HI>V<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;try-men</HI>]; who in Luxurious Treats defraud both Poor and Publick. But farther, It is humbly conceived, That</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">&rindx;</NOTE><HI>Where&s;oever it is not con&s;i&s;tent with the Intere&s;t of the Publick, that a Profe&s;&s;ion &s;hould</HI> (in PERSONAL SERVICES) <HI>be incumbred with tho&s;e common Offices (mo&s;t of which any man el&s;e may as well &s;erve) There it is again&s;t all Equity, th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">t the Profe&s;&s;ion &s;hould Fine.</HI></P>
<P>And this la&s;t Objection will appear the <HI>more unrea&s;onable,</HI> if what is naturally implied therein, be plainly expre&s;s'd <HI>(viz.)</HI></P>
<P><HI>T<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> it is fit this Prof<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">&s;ion &s;hould pay their <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ines, that they may the better &s;erve the Common Intere&s;t of Mankind.</HI> The la&s;t Objection holds as &s;trong again&s;t Lawyers, Attorneys, Phy&s;icians, and Surgeons, all which are now exempted, for they may Fine off, or find a Deputy; but for the Con&s;iderations before-mentioned, neither is thought rea&s;onable.</P>
<P><MILESTONE UNIT="Object."> The Petition pretends, That &s;hould this Bill pa&s;s into a Law, the City of <HI>London</HI> will be <HI>Greatly <HI>concerned</HI></HI> in the Con&s;equences thereof.</P>
<P><MILESTONE UNIT="An&s;w."> I mu&s;t confe&s;s this Petition holds <HI>true</HI> in the <HI>Letter,</HI> but not in the Intention of the Petitioners; for the <HI>Health</HI> of tho&s;e that are <HI>well</HI> (in the <HI>Prevention</HI> of Sickne&s;s) and the <HI>R<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">covery</HI> of &s;uch as are <HI>Sick,</HI> are <HI>Greatly concern'd</HI> that this Bill &s;hould be enacted: But I am too &s;hort-&s;ighted to fore&s;ee the lea&s;t (comparative) Ill Con&s;equences to the City by the pa&s;&s;ing this Bill. Had I not read the Bill, but was to judg the Prejudice, from <HI>this</HI> Petition, and the <HI>great</HI> Oppo&s;ition that is thereby made, I could not gue&s;s le&s;s than 10000 <HI>l. per Annum</HI> would be <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">he Lo&s;s this great and rich City would &s;u&s;tain by the pa&s;&s;ing this Bill. But when I reflect on the <HI>real Damage</HI> to be by the City &s;u&s;tained, if this Bill pa&s;&s;es into an Act, I &s;tand <HI>amaz'd</HI> at the Oppo&s;ition. For there not being above 188 Apothecaries within the Precincts of <HI>London,</HI> (and &s;o <HI>not two</HI> to a Pari&s;h, within the City Limits, there being 113 Pari&s;hes) the <HI>mo&s;t</HI> this City would get by the&s;e mens Fining is not above a <HI>Hundred</HI> Pound <HI>per An. Communibus Annis;</HI> and con&s;equently the Charge to the City would <HI>not exceed that Sum,</HI> if the de&s;ired Exemption was granted.</P>
<P><HI>And whether <HI>only</HI> the City <HI>Apothecaries</HI> &s;hould bear that Charge that they may the <HI>better</HI> &s;erve the City in its Sickne&s;s, or the City in <HI>general</HI> who reap the Benefit of their Con&s;tant Services in their Prof<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;&s;i n,</HI> mu&s;t be Humbly &s;ubmitted to the great Wi&s;dom of this Honourable Parliament.</P>
<P><MILESTONE UNIT="Object."> The pa&s;&s;ing this Bill would be an ill Pre&s;ident, and occa&s;ion other Profe&s;&s;ions and Trades to endeavour for the like Exemptions.</P>
<P><MILESTONE UNIT="An&s;w."> There is not the <HI>lea&s;t &s;hadow</HI> of Rea&s;on for any <HI>other</HI> Profe&s;&s;ion or Trade (by Law not already freed from tho&s;e Duties) to be exempted from tho&s;e Offices; for if it &s;o happen that any of tho&s;e in their Publick Attendance <HI>neglect</HI> their Trade, the Prejudice is <HI>only to their private particu|lar Intere&s;t;</HI> whereas by the Neglect of the Apothecaries in their Profe&s;&s;ion many of their Patients may peri&s;h.</P>
<P>It is a <HI>Rule</HI> in Law, and grounded on the <HI>Rea&s;on</HI> of things, <HI>That every thing ought to be re&s;pected according to its <HI>Worthine&s;s. Life</HI></HI> and Li|berty <HI>above</HI> the <HI>Po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ions</HI> of men: Wherefore the <HI>Common Law</HI> having given (as before ob&s;erved) <HI>Large</HI> Exemptions to a certain Profe&s;&s;ion engaged in the Defence of <HI>Property,</HI> 'tis rea&s;onably hop'd, That <HI>Statute-Law</HI> will in <HI>this</HI> In&s;tance now grant (what for the <HI>like</HI> Cau&s;e in a <HI>le&s;s</HI> degree it hath formerly given) <HI>as great Privileges</HI> in order to the <HI>Pre&s;ervation of <HI>Life.</HI></HI></P>
<P>There is a &s;tanding common Maxim in Law, <HI>&V;bi e&s;t eadem ratio,</HI> &amp;c. <HI>Where there is the &s;ame Rea&s;on there ever is the &s;ame Law: Seeing therefore the Rea&s;on the Law gives for the Di&s;charge of Phy&s;icians, Lawyers,</HI> &amp;c. (viz. <HI>The General Intere&s;t of the Publick) concludes</HI> (with due Submi&s;&s;ion) <HI>much &s;tronger for the Exemptions by this Bill de&s;ired, It is humbly hop'd</HI> (notwith&s;tanding the pre&s;ent Unrea&s;onable Oppo&s;ition) <HI>That the Bill under the pre&s;ent Con&s;ideration of this Honourable Parliament, may pa&s;s into a Law.</HI></P>
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<HEAD>A MODEST REPLY to the CITY-REASONS again&s;t the <HI>APOTHECARIES</HI> BILL. <HI>Humbly Submitted to the Con&s;ideration of this pre&s;ent Parliament.</HI></HEAD>
<P>FIRST, It is alledg'd again&s;t the Bill, That the <HI>Ground</HI> thereof is <HI>Fal&s;e;</HI> viz. <HI>That the Apothecaries &s;erving Pari&s;h, Ward, and Leet Offices, takes up &s;o much of their Time, that they cannot perform their Tru&s;t in their Trade, or attend their Patients according to their Duty.</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;wer,</HI> This Sugge&s;tion had been indeed <HI>Fal&s;e,</HI> could tho&s;e &s;everal Offices have been executed <HI>without</HI> employing any time therein.</P>
<P>'Tis &s;ugge&s;ted, That the <HI>Duty</HI> of (and the only <HI>Tru&s;t</HI> repo&s;ed in) the <HI>Apothecaries,</HI> is to make and compound their Medicines, and <HI>then</HI> to carry or <HI>&s;end</HI> them by their re&s;pective Servants (as other Trade&s;men do).</P>
<P><HI>An&s;wer,</HI> It were for the <HI>Ea&s;e</HI> and <HI>Intere&s;t</HI> of the Apothecaries to wi&s;h, that their Attendance were never required, and that the Nece&s;&s;ity of the Ca&s;e did never <HI>di&s;pen&s;e</HI> with their admini&s;tring Phy&s;ick without a Phy&s;ician's Pre&s;cription: But it is &s;o <HI>Notorious</HI> in <HI>Fact</HI> as it needs no Proof&punc; That did not the Apothecaries in Charity <HI>Give</HI> to many both their <HI>Attendance</HI> and <HI>Phy&s;ick,</HI> &s;ome Thou&s;ands <HI>would peri&s;h,</HI> &s;eeing their unhappy <HI>Incapacity</HI> can pay for neither.</P>
<P>This is not alledg'd to plead for a <HI>Liberty</HI> of Practice, but only to <HI>expo&s;e</HI> the <HI>evident Fal&s;ity</HI> of the Sugge&s;tion: And it's pre&s;umed, <HI>&s;carce</HI> any that <HI>oppo&s;e</HI> this Bill would <HI>employ that Apoth<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">cary</HI> who &s;hould <HI>only &s;end his Servants, refu&s;ing in Per&s;on to vi&s;it,</HI> whil&s;t he was under a Phy&s;ical Pre&s;cription.</P>
<P><HI>Secondly,</HI> Whereas it is &s;ugge&s;ted, That <HI>mo&s;t</HI> of the Offices in the Bill mentioned may be <HI>executed</HI> by Deputy:</P>
<P><HI>An&s;wer,</HI> This is <HI>equally Chargeable</HI> with Fining: <HI>And if the Per&s;onal Attendance of this Profe&s;&s;ion in tho&s;e Offices is not con&s;i&s;tent with the Common Intere&s;t, It's humbly &s;ubmitted to the Great Wi&s;dom of this Honourable Hou&s;e, Whether it's rea&s;onable that the Profe&s;&s;ors &s;hould be thus charged; for that is in effect buying an Exemption for a General Good. <HI>Which (with all due Submi&s;&s;ion) it may be hop'd this Honourable Parliament will now</HI> Grant without Price.</HI> As for Judge <HI>Rolls</HI>'s &s;erving an Office by Deputy, it was by the <HI>Recorder of London</HI> confe&s;s'd to be done <HI>Ex Gratia.</HI></P>
<P>It is &s;ugge&s;ted, That the Apothecaries are <HI>Ambitious</HI> of &s;everal Offices of <HI>Honour</HI> and <HI>Profit,</HI> in which as much of their Time is &s;pent, as in tho&s;e they would now be exempted from.</P>
<P><HI>An&s;wer,</HI> There are not above <HI>Eight</HI> Apothecaries Common-Council men; <HI>but One</HI> (at pre&s;ent) an Alderman's Deputy; <HI>but One</HI> in the Lieutenancy; <HI>not exceeding Two</HI> in Commi&s;&s;ion, in the City of <HI>London;</HI> neither of which was by them &s;ought.</P>
<P>As for their &s;pending &s;ome Time in Electing Lord-Mayor, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> tho&s;e Elections are <HI>very &s;eldom,</HI> and &s;o but a <HI>&s;mall</HI> part of their Time therein &s;pent: And being in them a <HI>voluntary</HI> Act, it's <HI>never done to the Neglect of their Patients.</HI> But it is quite otherwi&s;e in tho&s;e Offices, which <HI>po&s;itively re|quire their Per&s;onal Service.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Thirdly,</HI> 'tis Objected, That the Apothecaries have <HI>not</HI> the <HI>&s;ame Rea&s;ons for</HI> Exemptions as the <HI>Phy&s;itians,</HI> who&s;e <HI>Per&s;onal Attendance</HI> is required, and they cannot act by <HI>Proxy.</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;wer,</HI> 'Tis confe&s;s'd that Phy&s;icians <HI>mu&s;t</HI> Act in Per&s;on: And it is as <HI>manife&s;t</HI> Truth that the Apothecaries <HI>doe,</HI> and (as before ob&s;erved) in a <HI>thou&s;and</HI> in&s;tances <HI>mu&s;t,</HI> or the Patients <HI>mu&s;t <HI>peri&s;h. And which of the&s;e two &s;pend</HI> mo&s;t <HI>time on their Patients</HI></HI> (with humble Submi&s;&s;ion) <HI>mo&s;t <HI>de&s;erve an Exemption.</HI></HI></P>
<P><HI>Some of the Learned'&s;t and Eminent'&s;t Phy&s;icians <HI>knowing</HI> the grounds of this Bill to be <HI>true,</HI> have indu&s;triou&s;ly promoted the Pa&s;&s;ing thereof; for which the Apothecaries think them&s;elves in gratitude bound to make their publick acknowledgment.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Fourthly,</HI> 'Tis a&s;&s;erted that the <HI>Fines</HI> for Offices by Act of Common-Council are <HI>forbid</HI> to be applied to <HI>Fea&s;ting,</HI> &amp;c.</P>
<P><HI>An&s;wer,</HI> This very <HI>Prohibition</HI> proves the <HI>before</HI>-common Abu&s;es of tho&s;e Fines, and it can plainly be proved, that notwith&s;tanding that Act (in the greate&s;t part of them) they are &s;till mi&s;|&s;pent in luxurious Treats.</P>
<P><HI>Fifthly; As for the &V;niver&s;al Exemption of all Apothecaries throughout the Kingdom by tho&s;e Rea&s;ons complained of.</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;wer,</HI> Upon <HI>fir&s;t</HI> reading this Bill, the <HI>grounds thereof, and the ben<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">fits thereby, were thought &s;o rea&s;on<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ble and advantageous, that a worthy Member of the Hou&s;e Mov'd the Exemption might extend to <HI>all</HI> Parts of</HI> England. This motion was &s;o <HI>well</HI> approv'd of, that the Bill was immediately alter'd to its now latitude.</P>
<P><HI>Sixthly,</HI> 'Tis Objected, That the <HI>pre&s;ent</HI> Exemptions from Offices are already <HI>too many,</HI> and that <HI>&s;uch Immunities</HI> tend to the <HI>great Oppre&s;&s;ion of the Subject, e&s;pecially the <HI>poorer</HI> &s;ort.</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;wer,</HI> There are <HI>not</HI> above <HI>Three hundred thirty &s;even <HI>Apothecaries</HI></HI> within the Bills of <HI>Mortality;</HI> and <HI>mode&s;tl<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI> &s;peaking, there are <HI>One hundred thirty three thou&s;and</HI> hou&s;es; &s;o <HI>that there is <HI>but one</HI></HI> Apothecary to <HI>Four hundred</HI> Families, and <HI>above <HI>Two thou&s;and</HI></HI> per&s;ons to an <HI>Apothecary</HI> within tho&s;e Limits. <HI>And how very Oppre&s;&s;ive the de&s;ired Exemption would prove to &s;o many</HI> (which in the Charge of Fines would <HI>not</HI> come to above 100 <HI>l. per Ann. Communibus Annis</HI>) de&s;erved the Con&s;ideration of the Objectors before they had made this groundle&s;s &s;ugge&s;ti|on. And whereas the&s;e Gentlemen alledge that the <HI>Poorer</HI> &s;ort will be <HI>mo&s;t</HI> grieved by Pa&s;&s;ing this Bill: It's humbly conceived (for the Rea&s;ons before alledged) <HI>That tho&s;e will receive th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> <HI>greate&s;t</HI> Benefits by the Pa&s;&s;ing thereof.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Now whether the Apothecary's Profe&s;&s;ion <HI>Only</HI> &s;hould be charged with this</HI> 100 l per <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 word"> <HI>Fines for their Exemption or the <HI>O<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 span"></HI></HI></P>
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