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 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, ordained and established, for the common Wealth and Surety of your loving Subjects of this your Realm, in and for the Administration of Medicines to such of your said Subjects as shall have Need of the same, That from henceforth the said President for the Time being, Commons and Fellows, and their Successors 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 of the said Faculty of Physick, 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 at 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 said Apothecaries or any of them have, or at any time hereafter shall have, in their House or Houses; 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 Warden of the said Mystery of Apothecaries 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