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PRESENT AND PROPOSED BYE-LAWS. 
Pharmaceutical Chemists shall pass the 
Major Examination, and shall pay a fee 
of five guineas if previously registered as 
Assistants, or otherwise a fee of ten 
guineas, whereupon they shall he regis¬ 
tered under the said Act of Parliament 
as Pharmaceutical Chemists. 
12. No person shall he admitted to the 
Major Examination who shall not have 
attained the age of twenty-one years. 
English Grammar and Composition, and 
Arithmetic, which examination shall he 
called the first examination. Such of the 
said persons as shall desire Certificates 
of competent skill and qualification to be 
engaged or employed as Assistants shall 
be examined in the first examination, 
and also in the translation and dispensing 
of Prescriptions, in Botany, in Materia 
Medica, in Pharmaceutical and General 
Chemistry, the Chemistry of Poisons and 
Posology, which examination shall be 
called the Minor Examination ; and such 
of the said persons as shall desire Certifi¬ 
cates of competent skill and qualification 
to exercise the business or calling of Phar¬ 
maceutical Chemists shall be examined in 
the Minor Examination, and in more ex¬ 
tended knowledge of Botany, Materia 
Medica, the translation and dispensing of 
Prescriptions, Pharmacy, General Che¬ 
mistry, the Chemistry of Poisons and 
Posology, which examination shall be 
called the Major Examination. 
10. All persons who shall tender them¬ 
selves to the Examiners for examination 
under the provisions of the Act, 1868, 
excepting only those specified in the next 
following Bye-law, shall be examined in 
the Minor Examination. 
11. All persons entitled to be regis¬ 
tered as Chemists and Druggists on pass¬ 
ing a modified examination, who shall 
tender themselves to the Examiners for Act 1868, 
examination under the provisions of the °b L 
Act, 1868, shall pass the modified exami¬ 
nation, which the Council of the Phar¬ 
maceutical Society, with the consent of 
the Privy Council, have declared to be 
sufficient evidence of skill and compe¬ 
tency to conduct the business of a Che¬ 
mist and Druggist, as the same is set out 
in the Schedule hereto, or such other 
modified examination as may in like 
manner be declared such sufficient evi¬ 
dence. 
12. The Examiners shall grant or re¬ 
fuse to such persons as have tendered 
themselves for the Minor Examination 
and the Major Examination respectively, 
as in their discretion nay seem fit, Cer¬ 
tificates of competent skill and know¬ 
ledge and qualification, and such Certifi¬ 
cates or duplicates thereof or cards of 
like purport shall be delivered by the 
Examiners to the Registrar. 
13. All persons before registration as 
Apprentices or Students shall pass the 
first examination, and shall pay a fee of 
Two Guineas, whereupon they shall be 
registered as Apprentices or Students. 
