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Mr. Vizer said there was no occasion to read anything but the amend¬ 
ments. 
Mr. Deane said there were no amendments. They were simply the old bye¬ 
laws with those additions and verbal alterations that were necessary for carry¬ 
ing out the new Act. In spirit they were the old bye-laws without any altera¬ 
tion except that to which he had before alluded. It was for this reason that 
the Council had felt no difficulty in bringing them at once before the mem¬ 
bers. 
The Chairman said it might assist those who felt any difficulty if Mr. Flux 
would kindly read the new bye-laws. 
Mr. Flux accordingly went through the bye-laws seriatim. In section i. 
clauses 1 to 3 corresponded with similar clauses in the old bye-laws; clause 4, 
which he read, was necessary to confer the privileges provided by the statute of 
1868. Clauses 5 and 6 perpetuated former bye-laws. Clause 7 he read, as an 
addition, carrying out in the case of associates the same principle which had 
hitherto applied to members. Clauses 8 to 11 required no comment. Clause 
12 was a new one, providing for the payment of an entrance fee of two 
guineas by persons becoming members in exercise of the privileges conferred by 
the uew Act. 
Mr. Vizer said that seemed a material alteration. Hitherto persons had 
been able to become members simply by application to the Council. 
Mr. Flux said that was not so; hitherto, since 1852, members had been re¬ 
quired to pass the Major examinations; but now there was a limited class of 
members admitted by the new statute, from whom this entrance fee of two 
guineas would be required. They would pay no fees on registration, or any¬ 
thing of that kind; and, after mature consideration by the Couhcil, this was 
considered a very moderate and proper fee. Clause 13 corresponded with the 
old clause 10, and 14 practically corresponded with the old clause 12. Clauses 
15 and 16 corresponded with previous provisions; 17 was read as being a new- 
one, and also 18 and 19, consequential thereon. In section ii., clause 1 was 
identical with the old one ; clause 2 being slightly different, was read, though 
it only carried out what had been the practice of the Council. Section iii., 
relating to the common seal, was as before. Section iv., relating to the bye¬ 
laws, was the same as before, in clause 1, with the exception of requiring con¬ 
firmation by the Privy Council, instead of the Secretary of State ; clause 2 pro¬ 
vided that a copy of the bye-laws should be given to every member and associ¬ 
ate on election, and that it should be furnished at any time to any member, as¬ 
sociate, apprentice, or student, on payment of Is. Section v., as to the election 
of Council and Auditors, was the same as before, except that, according to the 
new statute, the privilege of using voting-papers was extended to town mem¬ 
bers, so that in future there would be only one form of voting. Then it set up 
the requisite machinery for dealing with a certain class of candidates, made 
eligible under the new Act. Chemists and druggists in business at the time of 
the passing of the Act and becoming members, were made eligible to seats at 
the Council, with the limitation that no more than seven of such members shall 
be on the Council at any one time, and these bye laws provided the requisite 
machinery for conducting the elections accordingly. Section vi. agreed, word 
for word, with the old one, as did also sections vii., viii., and ix. Section x. 
contained the machinery for carrying out the provisions of the new Act, which 
did not contemplate any other than the Minor examination ; if chemists and drug¬ 
gists desired to become Pharmaceutical Chemists, they must be examined in ac¬ 
cordance with the provisions of the Act of 1852. Clauses 11 to 16 were read. 
Section xi., relating to the registrar, etc., contained simply such verbal alterations 
as were needed under the new Act. Section xii. was identical with the old one, 
and so practically was xiii., only it increased the security to be given by the 
