TRANSACTIONS OF THE PHARMACEUTICAL SOCIETY. 
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penalty recovered under the aforesaid enactments : Provided also, that every informer or 
prosecutor, and every person who shall give evidence against any other person proceeded 
against under this Act, shall be freed and discharged from any such penalty which he 
may have incurred for or by reason of his having participated or aided in the commission 
of the offence with respect to which he shall so inform or prosecute or give evidence, 
provided the information against such other person has been laid, or such evidence has 
been given, before the laying of any information (if any) against such informer, prosecu¬ 
tor, or witness for the recovery of any penalty he may have so incurred. 
While going through press we find that a Bill has been introduced in the 
Commons by Lord Raynham for regulating the sale of poisons, and it stands for 
second reading on the 30th of June. This Bill is not yet printed, and we cannot 
therefore give particulars. 
TRANSACTIONS 
OF 
THE PHARMACEUTICAL SOCIETY. 
AT A MEETING OF THE COUNCIL, 3rd June , 1863, 
Present—Messrs. Bird, Bucklee, Deane, George Edwards, J. B. Edwards, Evans, Hau- 
burv, Haselden, Hills, Horner, Meggeson, Morson, Proctor, Reynolds, Sandford, Savage, 
Squire, Standring, and Waugh,—being the first meeting after the anniversary—the fol¬ 
lowing Officers of the Society were elected :— 
George Webb Sandford . President. 
Thomas Hyde Hills . Vice-President. 
Daniel Bell Haneury . Treasurer. 
Elias Bbemkidge . Secretary and Registrar. 
LOCAL SECRETARIES. 
The Scrutineers’ Report of their investigation of the voting-papers returned for the 
election of Local Secretaries having been read, it was resolved— 
“ 1. That, for the efficient working of the Society, it is desirable that there should be 
a Local Secretary in each city and borough in England, Wales, and Scotland, which 
returns a Member or Members to Parliament; also, in every other town in which there are 
not less than three Members of the Society. 
“ 2. That in those towns from which no returns have been made, the former Secretar 
be re-appointed for the ensuing year. 
“ 3. That those Members having a majority of votes, according to the Scrutineers 
list (in case of an equality of votes, preference being given to the Local Secretary of 
last year, if he be one of the equals), be appointed for their respective localities. 
“ 4. That all these Members on the List so arranged and now presented, be appointed 
Local Secretaries for the ensuing year, and that the said List be published in the July 
number of the Journal and Transactions. 
“Resolved,—That the Local Secretaries throughout the country be requested to fur¬ 
nish the Overseers in their respective parishes with lists of Pharmaceutical Chemists in 
due time, with a view to secure their right of exemption from serving on juries under 
the ‘Juries Act, 1862,’ and for this purpose the List published in the July number of 
the Society’s Transactions be taken as authentic.” 
BELL SCHOLARSHIPS. 
“ Resolved,—That the successful Candidates for the Bell Scholarship, at the Examina¬ 
tion on the 25th of August next, have gratuitous instruction in the Laboratory for the 
Session 1863-64.” 
The following were elected 
MEMBERS. 
London .William John Beaton. 
London .Robert Hooper Harrison. 
