medicine ches

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medicine ches - Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) :

  MEDICINE CHEST. A box containing an assortment of medicines.
       2. The act of congress for the government and regulation of seamen in 
  the merchant service, sect. 8, 1 Story's L. U. S. 106, directs that every 
  ship or vessel, belonging to a citizen or citizens of the United States, of 
  the burthen of one hundred and fifty tons or upwards, navigated by ten or 
  more persons in the whole, and bound on a voyage without the limits of the 
  United States, shall be provided with a chest of medicines, put up by some 
  apothecary of known reputation, and accompanied by directions for 
  administering the same; and the said medicines shall be examined by the same 
  or some other apothecary, once, at least, in every year, and supplied with 
  fresh medicines in the place of such as shall have been used or spoiled; and 
  in default of having such medicine chest so provided, and kept fit for use, 
  the master or commander of such ship or vessel shall provide and pay for all 
  such advice, medicine, or attendance of physicians, as any of the crew shall 
  stand in need of in case of sickness, at every port or place where the ship 
  or vessel may touch or trade at during the voyage, without any deduction 
  from the wages of such sick seaman or mariner. 
       3. And by the act to amend the above mentioned act, approved March 2, 
  1805, 2 Story's Laws U. S. 971, it is provided that all the provisions, 
  regulations, and penalties, which are contained in the eighth section of the 
  act, entitled "An act for the, government and regulation of seamen in the 
  merchants' service," so far as relates to a chest of medicines to be 
  provided for vessels of one hundred and fifty tons burthen and upwards, 
  shall be extended to all merchant vessels of the burthen of seventy-five 
  tons or upwards, navigated with six persons, or more, in the whole, and 
  bound from the United States to any port or ports in the West Indies.