THE AMENDED PHARMACY BILL. 
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Haselden, Adolphus E., 18, Conduit Street. 
Hills, Thomas Hyde, 338, Oxford Street. 
Ince, Joseph, 26, St. George’s Place, Kuightsbridge. 
Mackay, John, 121, George Street, Edinburgh. 
Morson, Thomas N. R., 38, Queen Square, Bloomsbury. 
Randall, William Brodribb, Southampton. 
Sandford, George Webb, 47, Piccadilly. 
Savage, William Dawson, Brighton. 
Squire, Peter, 277, Oxford Street. 
Standring, Thomas, 1 , Piccadilly, Manchester. 
Stoddart, William Walter, Bristol. 
Waugh, George, 177, Regeut Street. 
Williams, John, 5, New Cavendish Street. 
The Scrutineers handed to the President the Report of the returns for the Local 
Secretaries. 
Votes of thanks having been passed to the Scrutineers and to the Chairman, the 
meeting separated. 
A BILL TO REGULATE THE SALE OE POISONS AND 
ALTER AND AMEND THE PHARMACY ACT, 1852. 
Whereas it is expedient for the safety of the public that persons 
keeping open shop for the retailing, dispensing, or compounding of 
poisons, and persons known as Chemists and Druggists, should pos¬ 
sess a competent practical knowledge of their business, and to that 
end, that from and after the day herein named all persons not already 
engaged in such business should, before commencing such business, 
be duly examined as to their practical knowledge, and that a re¬ 
gister should be kept as herein provided, and also that the Act 
passed in the 15th and 16th years of the reign of her present Majesty, 
intituled An Act for Regulating the Qualification of Pharmaceutical 
Chemists, hereinafter described as the Pharmacy Act, should be 
amended: be it enacted, by the Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty, by 
and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal 
and Commons in this present Parliament assembled, and by authority 
of the same, as follows : 
1. From and after the 31st day of December, 1868, it shall be un¬ 
lawful for any person to keep open shop for retailing, dispensing, or 
compounding poisons, or to assume or use the title u Chemist and 
Druggist ” or Chemist or Druggist in any part of Great Britain 
unless such person shall be a Pharmaceutical Chemist, or a Chemist 
and Druggist within the meaning of this Act. 
2. The several articles named or described in the Schedule A shall 
be deemed to be Poisons within the meaning of this Act, and the 
Council of the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (hereinafter 
referred to as the Pharmaceutical Society) may, from time to time, by 
resolution, declare that any article in such resolution named ought to 
be deemed a poison within the meaning of this Act; and thereupon 
the Registrar hereinafter named shall submit such resolution to the 
Medical Council, and if the Medical Council shall resolve that such 
resolution ought to be confirmed, the said Registrar shall then submit 
the same for the approval of one of her Majesty’s Principal Secre¬ 
taries of State, and if such approval shall be given, then such resolu¬ 
tion, confirmation, and approval shall be advertised in the 1 London 
Gazette,’ and on the expiration of one month from such advertise- 
15 & 16 Viet. 
Persons 
selling or 
compound¬ 
ing Poisons, 
or assuming 
the title of 
Chemist and 
Druggist, 
to be quali¬ 
fied. 
Poisons 
within the 
meaning of 
Act. 
