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THE TAX ON ARMORIAL BEARINGS. 
The slight alarm caused by the notices which appeared in the public journals, 
this included, about a month ago, to the effect that Government were about to 
impose the tax for armorial bearings upon all those who used such or any similar 
emblems, in whatever way they might be employed, has led to considerable cor- 
respondence on the subject; and we are glad to be able now to state that either 
the notices alluded to, which appear to have originated with officers of the 
Excise, were unwarranted by any serious intention of the Government, or that 
the latter have relented on observing the excitement occasioned by the announce¬ 
ment of such intention. 
The following statement is contained in a letter which has been received from 
the Board of Inland Revenue by Mr. Davids, of Cardigan :— 
“ The Board do not insist upon payment of duty for armorial bearings, or devices in 
the nature of armorial bearings, used by any person in trade in connection with matters 
relating merely to his trade,—as, for instance, on bill-heads, trade labels, etc.; but any 
trader who uses armorial bearings, or such devices, on paper for general correspondence, 
or otherwise than in connection with trade as aforesaid, must pay the duty.” 
TRANSACTIONS 
OF 
THE PHARMACEUTICAL SOCIETY. 
MEETING OF THE COUNCIL, January 5 th, 1870, 
MR. H. SUGDEN EVANS, PRESIDENT, IN THE CHAIR. 
MR. IIASELDEN, VICE-PRESIDENT. 
Present—Messrs. Abraham, Bottle, Bourdas, Carteighe, Dymond, Edwards, Hills, 
Morson, Savage, Squire, Stoddart, andWilliams. 
The minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed. 
The Report of the Finance and House Committee was presented, showing on the 
General Fund Account a balance in the Treasurer’s hands of £950. 3s. Id., and on 
the Benevolent Fund Account a balance of £421. 15s. 4 d.; and submitting for payment 
accounts, and various items, amounting to £965. 18s. 4 d. 
Resolved—That the Report be received and adopted, and payments made. 
Messrs. Taylor and Co.’s estimate for printing the Calendar for 1870 was accepted. 
The House and Finance Committee further reported that they had examined the ap¬ 
plications and testimonials for the office of Collector, and had recommended the names 
of three persons for the consideration of the Council. Ballot having been taken, the 
President declared Mr. Lancelot Steele Hughes elected. 
The Secretary reported that he had submitted to the Privy Council for their ap¬ 
proval, the resolution passed at the last meeting of this Council, Dec. 1st, in reference 
to the addition to the schedule of poisons, and that he had received the following 
reply — 
“Medical Department of the Privy Council, 16th Dec., 1869. 
“ Sir,—In answer to your letter of the 6th instant, submitting, for the approvalof the 
Lords of Her Majesty’s Council, a resolution, passed at a meeting of the Council of the 
Pharmaceutical Society on the 1st instant, declaring, in accordance with section 2 of the 
Pharmacy Act, 1868, that certain articles therein named ought to be deemed poisons 
