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ROBBERY OF DRUGS. 
At the Mansion House, July 31, Thomas Worcester, a carman, was charged with 
stealing a quantity of sarsaparilla, tartaric acid, rhubarb, and other drugs from his 
employers, Messrs. Langton and Co., wholesale druggists. He was suspected of robbing 
them, and, having been watched, was followed to his home, where the drugs were found. 
He was committed for trial. 
AN ACT TO AMEND “THE PHARMACY ACT, 1868.” 
32 & 33 Vict. c. 117. 
Whereas it is expedient to amend the provisions of the Pharmacy Act, 1868, in 
regard to duly qualified medical practitioners and veterinary surgeons, and in other 
respects: 
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 the authority of the same, as follows: 
1. Nothing contained in the first fifteen sections of the recited Act shall affect any 
person who has been registered as a legally qualified medical practitioner before the 
passing of this Act; and the said clauses shall not apply to any person who may here¬ 
after be registered as a legally qualified practitioner, and who, in order to obtain his 
diploma for such registration, shall have passed an examination in pharmacy; nor shall 
the said clauses prevent any person who is a member of the Royal College of Veterinary 
Surgeons of Great Britain, or holds a certificate in veterinary surgery from the High¬ 
land and Agricultural Society of Scotland, from dispensing medicines for animals under 
his care. 
2. The time within which certificates may be produced to the registrar under section 
four of the said Act, by persons employed as assistants before the passing of the said 
Act, shall be extended to the thirty-first day of December one thousand eight hundred 
and sixty-nine, and the certificates given under the same section according to Schedule 
(A.) of this Act shall be sufficient. 
3. Nothing contained in section seventeen of the said recited Act shall apply to any 
medicine supplied by a legally qualified medical practitioner to his patient, or dispensed 
by any person registered under the said Act, provided such medicine be distinctly 
labelled with the name and address of the seller, and the ingredients thereof be entered, 
with the name of the person to whom it is sold or delivered, in a book to be kept by the 
seller for that purpose. 
4. Section 23, and Schedule (E.) of the said recited Act are hereby repealed. 
5. Schedule (F.) of the said recited Act is hereby altered by substituting for the 
second column headed “Name of Purchaser” a column headed “Name and Address of 
Purchaser.” 
Schedule (A.). 
Declaration to be signed by and on behalf of any Assistant claiming to be registered 
under the Pharmacy Act, 1868. 
To the Registrar of the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain. 
I hereby declare that the undersigned residing at 
in the county of had for three years before the thirty-first day of July 
one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight been employed in dispensing and com¬ 
pounding prescriptions as an assistant to a Pharmaceutical Chemist or Chemist and 
Druggist, and attained the age of twenty-one years. 
As witness my hand this day of 186 . 
A.B. Qualified medical practitioner. 
C.D. Pharmaceutical Chemist. 
E.F. Chemist and Druggist. 
G.H. Magistrate. 
To be signed by one of the four parties named. 
