Medical reform : a letter to the Right Hon. Viscount Melbourne with the outlines of a Bill for regulating the practice of surgeon-apothecaries and chemists and druggists ... and a plan for suppressing uneducated practitioners ... / by Martin Sinclair.

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[1840?]
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Credit: Medical reform : a letter to the Right Hon. Viscount Melbourne with the outlines of a Bill for regulating the practice of surgeon-apothecaries and chemists and druggists ... and a plan for suppressing uneducated practitioners ... / by Martin Sinclair. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    Appeal. examine into the matter of fact, and upon due proof made thereof by voluntary confession of the party, or by production of the cer- tified list of Surgeon-Apothecaries and Chemists and Druggists, as published and advertised in the London, Dublin, or Edinburgh Gazette, as the offence may have been committed and the inform- ation laid in any County in England, Ireland, or Scotland, or by oath of one or more witness or witnesses, to give judgment for the penalty ; one moiety whereof shall be applied for the relief of the poor of the place or district where the offence was committed, and the other moiety thereof, with full costs of suit, shall be paid to the person who shall inform and sue or prosecute foi the same, within three months next after the offence shall have been commit- ted ; and in default of payment thereof, to award and issue out his warrant for the levying of any penalty so adjudged, together with the costs or exjjenses of such proceedings, and also the costs and expenses of such warrant, and of levying the same on the goods of the offender, and to cause sale to be made of such goods in case they shall not be redeemed within seven days, rendering to the party the overplus, if any ; and where goods of such offender cannot be found sufficient to answer the penalty and all such costs and expenses, it shall be lawful for such Justice, and he is hereby required, to commit such offender to the Common Gaol, or House of Correction, there to remain for any time not less than one calen- dar month, and not more than three calendar months if the penalty for which such offender shall have been convicted shall amount to Five Pounds; and for any time not less than three calendar months, and not more than six calendar months, if the penalty for which such offender shall have been convicted shall amount to Ten Pounds, unless such penalty and all such costs and expenses shall be sooner paid and satisfied ; anything contained in Sections xxv., xxvx., and xxvii., of the before recited Act, 55 Georgii III. Cap. 149, to the contrary in anywise notwithstanding: and be itfur- ther enacted, thatif the person convicted shall find himself aggrieved by the judgment of any such Justice, it shall be lawful for such person to appeal against the same to the Justices of the Peace at the General or Quarter Sessions of the Peace for the County or place within which the offence shall be committed, which shall be held next after the expiration of Ten days from the day on which such conviction shall have been made, of which appeal notice in writing shall be given to the Prosecutor or Informer, seven clear clays previous to the first day of such Sessions; and such Justices at such Sessions are hereby authorised and required to examine witnessess upon oath, and finally to hear and determine such appeal; and in case the judgment of any such Justice shall be affirmed, it shall be lawful for the Justices at such Sessions to award and order the person appealing to pay such costs, occa- sioned by such appeal, as to them shall seem meet: Provided always, that no person convicted before any such Justice shall be entitled or permitted to appeal againsl such conviction in manner aforesaid, unless, within five days next after such conviction made, he shall enter into a recognizance, with two sufficient sureties, before such Justice, to enter and prosecute such appeal, and to pay the amount of the penalty and costs in which he shall have been convicted ; and also to pay such further costs as shall be