VIII. And Whereas many Persons who have been examined as to their Fitness and Qualification to act as Apothecaries in pursuance of the said Act of the Fifty fifth Year of His late Majesty King George the Third, by the Court of Examiners appointed under and by virtue thereof, have been rejected upon 'the First and also upon the Second Examination of such Persons: And Whereas there is not any Power expressly given by the said Act to the said Court of Examiners to admit Persons who have been rejected upon their Second Examination : And Whereas several Persons who have been upon their First and Second Examinations deemed unfit to receive a Certificate • of Qualification to act as Apothecaries, have upon a subsequent Examination received Certificates of their Qualification to act as Apothecaries, and it would be expedient to provide a Remedy in that behalf;' Be it therefore enacted, That from and after the passing of this Act it shall and may be lawful to and for the Court of Examiners who shall be appointed from time to time in pursuance of the said Act of the Fifty fifth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Third, or the major Part of them, to examine any Person or Persons who have been rejected by the said Court of Examiners, on the Second Examination of such Person or Persons, from time to time as often as such Person or Persons shall apply to be examined, so as such future Examinations be from time to time respectively at an Interval of not less than Six Months from the previous Examination; and that all Persons who have heretofore received, from the said Court of Examiners, Certificates of their Qualification to act as Apothecaries, upon their Third or subsequent Examination, shall be deemed to have been legally examined; and that the Certificates which have been granted to such Persons shall be deemed and taken to be as valid as if the same had been granted by the said Court of Examiners on the First or Second Examination of such Persons. Power to grant Persons upon subsequent Examinations. IX. And Whereas by the said recited Act the Penalty of 55 G.3. c.194. Five Pounds is imposed on Persons who shall commit certain §§ 3. 5. 20. Offences in the said Act specified: And Whereas there are not in the said recited Act specified any Means whereby the said Penalty of Five Pounds thereby imposed can be recovered;' Be it therefore enacted, That all Penalties of the Amount of Five Mode of rePounds, which are imposed by the said recited Act, shall be covering Penalrecoverable in the Name of the Master, Wardens and Society ties of 51. of the Art and Mystery of Apothecaries of the City of London in any of His Majesty's Courts of Record, in England or Wales, in the same Manner, and subject to the same Rules and Regulations in all Respects, as are in and by the said recited Act declared and provided with regard to the Recovery of the Penalty of Twenty Pounds thereby imposed on certain other Offences in the said recited Act mentioned. X. Provided always, and be it further enacted, That no Action or Suit shall be brought or prosecuted against any Person or Persons, Body or Bodies Politic, Corporate or Collegiate, for any Thing done in pursuance of this Act, or the said recited Act of the Fifty fifth Year of His late Majesty King George the Third, after Six Calendar Months next after the Fact committed; or in case Limitation of Actions for executing Act. case there shall be a Continuation of Damages, then after Six Calendar Months next after the doing or committing such Damage shall have ceased, and not afterwards, nor until the Expiration of Twenty one Days after Notice shall have been given to or left for the Person or Persons, Body or Bodies Politic, Corporate or Collegiate, against whom such Action is intended to be brought, under the Hand of the Party intending to bring such Action, previously to the commencing such Action; and every such Action or Suit shall be laid and brought in the County where the Matter in dispute shall arise, and not elsewhere; and the Defendant and Defendants in every such Action or Suit shall or may, at General Issue. his, her or their Election, plead specially, or the General Issue, and give this Act and the said recited Act of the Fifty fifth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty, and the Special Matter, in Evidence at any Trial to be had thereupon, and that the same was done in pursuance and by the Authority of this Act and the said recited Act; and if it shall appear to have been so done, or if any such Action or Suit shall have been brought before the Expiration of Twenty one Days after Notice shall have been given or left as aforesaid, or after sufficient Satisfaction shall have been made or tendered, or shall be brought in any other County or Place than as aforesaid, then and in every such Case the Jury shall find for the Defendant or Defendants; and upon such Verdict, or if the Plaintiff or Plaintiffs shall become nonsuit, or shall suffer a Discontinuance or Non Pros of his, her or their Action or Suit after the Defendant or Defendants shall have appeared, or if a Verdict shall pass against the Plaintiff or Plaintiffs, or if upon Demurrer or otherwise Judgment shall be given against the Plaintiff or Plaintiffs, then the Defendant or Defendants shall have Double Costs, and shall have such Remedy for recovering the same as any Defendant hath for recovering Costs of Suit in any other Cases by Law. Double Costs. Commence XI. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take Effect from ment and Con- and after the passing thereof, and shall continue until the First tinuance of Act. Day of August next in the Year One thousand eight hundred and twenty six. Public Act. XII. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall be deemed and taken to be a Public Act, and shall be judicially taken notice of as such, by all Judges, Justices and others, without being specially pleaded. CAP. CA P. CXXXIV. An Act for applying the Surplus of the Grants of the Year I. 439,166 9 103 Being the Surplus Grants for the Year 1824; to be issued towards the Supply for the Year 1825. II. Monies coming into the Exchequer under c. 1. ante; granted to make good the Supply for Great Britain and Ireland, for 1825. 20,000,000 00 By Exchequer Bills under c. 2. ante. Monies coming into the Exchequer under c. 9. ante. 10,500,000 00 Out of the Consolidated Fund 10,500,000 0 0 By Exchequer Bills under under c. 14. ante. c. 70. ante. For Naval Services for the Year 1825, (that is to say,) 560,000 0 0 40,000 0 0 His Majesty's Yards. For Wages to Artificers and Labourers in ditto. For Pilotage, Salvage, Bounty for Slaves, Maintenance of distressed Seamen in Foreign Parts, Exchequer Fees and other Contingencies. 52,022 13 5 For Salaries of Officers and Contingent Expences of Foreign Yards. ditto Victualling Yards. For For the Royal Naval College, and School for Na val Architecture. 4 A ditto £106,027 7 1 For Wages to Officers and Men of Vessels in Ordinary. 24,581 0 8 net For 116,470 13 10 13,270 14 6 5,188 17 0 net 128,000 0 0 19,305 12 0 net 27,338 5 5 151,522 16 3 For Allowances to principal Officers of the several Public Departments in Great Britain and Ireland, their Deputies, Clerks, and Contingent Expences. For Medicines and Surgical Materials for Land Forces in Great Britain, and of certain Hospital Contingencies. For ditto in Ireland. For Volunteer Corps in Great Britain. For Four Troops of Dragoons and Nineteen Com- V. £29,832 6 10 For Pay of Garrisons at Home and Abroad. 5,491 0 3 net For ditto 131,000 0 0 752,000 0 O 33,896 9 0 in Ireland. For ditto full Pay for reduced, retired 12,075 13 10 net For 1,240,913 2 11 186,608 13 9 5,690 8 0 net 33,000 0 0 ditto For In Pensioners of Chelsea Hospital. For Allowances on the Compassionate List, and For Fees expected to be paid at the Exchequer 9,657 18 5 For a Royal Veteran Battalion for Service in 17,984 4 10 net 620,000 0 0 369,014 8 3 303,459 1 6 94,207 13 6 net 48,948 0 0 Great Britain. For Two ditto for Ireland. For extraordinary Expences of the Army. For disembodied Militia of Great Britain. For Salaries to Master General and principal 7,219 0 0 For Salaries and increased Salaries for length of Service to the several Military Establishments of the Office of Ordnance at the Royal Laboratory, the Inspector of Artillery's Department, the Royal Carriage Department, and the Royal Military Repository at Woolwich. 35,490 0 0 For ditto to the several Civil Establishments of the Office of Ordnance at the Home and Fo reign Stations. 4,165 0 0 For Expence of Fifty six Master Gunners at the Garrisons, &c. in Great Britain, and of One Fee Gunner at Saint James's Park and Whitehall, with Allowance of Coals and Candles to them, and to 50 Noncommissioned Officers 4 A 2 and |