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quently obtained. A man who requires a suspicious poison ought to’ give some infor¬ 
mation for what he requires it. 
Mr. Lowe : What we have done is this,—we have said that no man shall sell deadly 
poisons to unknown persons, except he is introduced to the chemist, etc. Is the Com¬ 
mittee, by this schedule, prepared to go back ? It is true we cannot legislate for all 
poisons, but what I should like would be to see the provisions of the Arsenic Act further 
carried out. Instead of dividing the schedules, I think, if my noble friend confers with 
the Pharmaceutical Society, he will, in all probability, be able to propose something to 
which we can agree. I will, however, move that the following shall be added to the 
list in Schedule A:—“ Opium and all preparations of poppies, and such other poisons 
as may from time to time be added under the second section of this Act.” 
Theffinal decision on the schedule was then postponed until the bringing up of the report. 
The Bill, upon that understanding, passed through Committee. 
Friday, July 17th, 186S. 
On the order of the day that this Bill as amended in Committee be considered, 
Lord Elcho said: I have some amendments to propose, first in page 2, line 3, to in¬ 
sert after “ prescribed ” the word “ jointly,” and in line 4, after “ society ” to leave out 
“with the consent of,” and to insert “and and in clause 15, page G, line 8, after 
“pharmacist,” to insert “not being a pharmaceutical chemist,” and after “pursuance of 
this Act,” leave out “ not being a pharmaceutical chemist.” Agreed to. 
Lord Elcho : I now move the insertion of a clause in lieu of clause 17. It is on the 
paper, and is as follows 
“ Regulat ions to be observed in the Sale o f Poisons. 
“It shall be unlawful to sell any poison, either by wholesale or by retail, unless the 
box, bottle, vessel, wrapper, or cover in which such poison is contained be distinctly la¬ 
belled with the name of the article and the word poison, and with the name and address 
of the seller of the poison; and it shall be unlawful to sell any poison of those which 
are in the first part of Schedule (A) to this Act, or may hereafter be added thereto 
under section second of this Act, to any person unknown to the seller unless in¬ 
troduced by some person known to the seller; and on every sale of any such ar- 
tic 7 e the seller shall, before delivery, make or cause to be made an entry in a book to 
be kept for that purpose, stating, in the form set forth in Schedule (F) to this Act, the 
date of the sale, the name and address of the purchaser, the name and quantity of the 
article sold, and the purpose for which it is stated by the purchaser to be required, to 
which entry the signature of the purchaser and of the person, if any, who introduced 
him shall be affixed; and any person selling poison otherwise than is herein provided 
shall, upon a summary conviction before two justices of the peace in England or the 
sheriff in Scotland, be liable to a penalty not exceeding five pounds for the first offence, 
and to a penalty not exceeding ten pounds for the second or any subsequent offence ; 
and for the purposes of this section the person on whose behalf any sale is made by any ap¬ 
prentice or servant shall be deemed to be the seller, but the provisions of this section which 
are solely applicable to poisons in the first part of the Schedule (A) to this Act, or which 
require that the label shall contain the name and address of the seller, shall not apply to 
articles to be exported from Great Britain by -wholesale dealers, nor to sales by whole¬ 
sale or retail dealers in the ordinary course of wholesale dealing, nor shall any of the 
provisions of this section apply to any medicine supplied by an apothecary to his patient, 
nor apply to any article when forming part of the ingredients of any medicine dispensed 
by a person registered, and nothing in this Act contained shall repeal or affect any of the 
provisions of an Act of the session holden in the fourteenth and fifteenth years of the 
reign of her present Majesty, intituled £ An Act to Regulate the Sale of Arsenic.’ ” 
The clause having been read a second time by the Clerk reading the words “ Regula¬ 
tions to be observed in the Sale of Poisons,” 
Mr. Ayrton : I now propose to leave out of this new clause the words in the sixth 
line, “ or may hereafter be added thereto, under section second of this Act,” and for this 
reason that it will not be right to give to the Privy Council a definitive power, which, if 
exercised, might very materially interfere with the general trade of this country. This 
is a power which can only be exercised by Parliament, and it is a power which the 
Privy Council ought not to have under any circumstances whatsoever ; I therefore pro¬ 
pose to omit these words. 
