November 19, 1870.] THE PHARMACEUTICAL JOURNAL AND TRANSACTIONS. 
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wareroom for the retailing, dispensing, or compounding 
medical prescriptions, or who shall take, use, or exhibit 
the name or title of apothecary, pharmaceutical chemist, 
or pharmaceutist, or pharmacist, or dispensing chemist, 
in Ireland, or make use of any sign or title, implying 
that he is a qualified apothecary, or that he is registered 
as a pharmaceutical chemist under this Act, or any phar¬ 
maceutical chemist or apothecary who shall take or em¬ 
ploy any person as student, apprentice, or assistant, 
■without such person having obtained the proper certifi¬ 
cates hereinbefore directed, or who shall compound any 
.medicines of the British Pharmacopoeia except according 
to the formularies of the said Pharmacopoeia, each and 
every person so offending shall for every such offence be 
liable, on summary conviction before one or more justices 
<of the peace, to pay a penalty of five pounds, and, when 
arecovered, such penalties shall be applied to the purposes 
tof this Act; but nothing in this Act contained shall pre¬ 
vent any person from being liable to any other penalty, 
damage, or punishment, to which he would have been 
subject if this Act had not passed. 
14. Upon the decease of any pharmaceutical chemist 
or apothecary actually in business at the time of his 
death, it shall be lawful for any executor, administrator, 
or trustee of the estate of such pharmaceutical chemist 
for apothecary, to continue such business for a period not 
•exceeding six months, and provided such business shall 
<be bond fide conducted by a duly-qualified apothecary, or 
by a pharmaceutical chemist registered under this Act; 
provided always, that registration under this Act shall 
not entitle any person so registered to practise medicine 
•or surgery, or any branch of medicine or surgery. 
id. It shall, nevertheless, be lawful, anything to the 
■contrary notwithstanding, for the examiners appointed 
under this Act to admit to examination any chemist and 
druggist who shall have been in business, as such, on 
his own account, for a period of not less than five years 
before the passing of this Act, and who shall, within six 
.months after it has passed into law, make application in 
writing for examination to the registrar under this Act, 
• accompanied with a certificate according to schedule (Cl 
•to this Act; and every such chemist and druggist who 
■shall have satisfied the examiners as to his knowledge, 
skill and competency to carry on and conduct the busi¬ 
ness of a pharmaceutical chemist, shall receive the cer¬ 
tificate of pharmacy from the said examiners, and shall 
be entitled to be placed on the register of pharmaceutical 
chemists of Ireland; and the person so certified shall 
pay the same fees as other pharmaceutical chemists 
under this Act; provided always, that in case of rejec¬ 
tion, the rejected candidate may be re-examined after 
•■six months. 
16. It is hereby further enacted, that a Pharmaceutical 
■Society shall be instituted, to be named “ The Pharma- 
'Ccutical Society of Ireland;” and authority is hereby 
given for the formation of such Society;, and in order to 
the formation of same it shall be lawful for every person 
who has been duly licensed and registered as a pharma¬ 
ceutical chemist by this Act, and also for every duly- 
qualified apothecary, upon payment of an annual sub¬ 
scription of one guinea each to the Treasurer appointed 
wader this Act, to become a member of said Society, and 
■to have a voice and vote in all general meetings of the 
Society ; and the Governor and Council of the Apothe¬ 
caries’ Hall of Dublin are hereby authorized and re¬ 
quired, within one year after the passing of this Act, to 
convene a meeting of all members of the Society, to be 
h.eld at their Hall in Dublin, by written or printed sum¬ 
monses, to be issued ten days previous to the day agreed 
upon for holding such meeting; and it shall be lawful 
for the members in assembly at such meetings to appoint 
a President, Vice-President, Council, and Secretary, for 
nonducting the business of the Society, and like meetings 
of the Society shall be holden annually. 
17. At all general meetings of the Society, it shall be 
lawful for the Society to make all such bye-laws and rules j 
for the advancement of pharmacy and for the good go¬ 
vernment of the Society as the members present shall in 
their wisdom, and by a majority of votes determine; pro¬ 
vided always, that said bye-laws and rules shall be con¬ 
sonant with, and not contrary w to, any of the provisions 
of this Act; and it shall also be lawful for the Society at 
every such annual meeting, for the members present to 
elect from among themselves, by a majority of votes, six 
persons to be conjoint examiners with the examiners on 
the. Pharmacy Court of the Apothecaries’ Hall, to record 
their votes as to the merits of the several candidates who 
have undergone examination. 
18. The parts hereinafter mentioned of the aforesaid 
Act of the “ Thirty-first of George the Third, chapter 
thirty-four,” shall be, and the same are hereby repealed; 
that is to say, so much of the tenth clause as relates to 
seven years’ apprenticeship, the whole of the twenty- 
third clause, so much of the twenty-fourth clause as re¬ 
lates to fees for certificates, and the whole of the twenty- 
fifth and twenty-sixth clauses. 
19. This Act may be cited as the Pharmacy Act, Ire¬ 
land, 1870. 
20. This Act shall apply to Ireland only. 
Schedule A. 
Seale of Fees for Certificates . 
Apprentices and Students. 2 Guineas. 
Assistants ... 3 Guineas. 
Pharmaceutical Chemists . 5 Guineas. 
The Fee for Registration . 5 Shillings. 
Schedule B. 
Name. 
Kesidence. 
Date of Kegistration. 
A. B. 
C. D. 
E. F. 
Grafton Street, Dublin. 
Patrick Street, Cork. 
Corn Market, Belfast. 
Jan. 10th, 1871. 
March 4th, 1871. 
Juno 15th, 1871. 
Schedule C. 
Certificate to be signed by a duly qualified medical prac~ 
titioner or magistrate respecting a person who was irl 
business as a chemist and druggist in Ireland for five 
years on his own account. 
To the Registrar appointed under the Fharmacg Act, 
Ireland, 18/1. 
I, residing at in the county of 
hereby certify that I am a duly qualified medical prac¬ 
titioner (or magistrate), and that to my knowledge 
residing at in the county of 
has been in business as a chemist and druggist on his 
own account for a period of not less than five years. 
(Signed) 
This day of 1871. 
Punitaqui Quicksilver Mine.—According to Na¬ 
ture, an attempt is again being made to work the quick¬ 
silver mine of Punitaqui, in Ovalle department, Chile. 
It was worked for the crown in Spanish times, but the 
War of Independence and Indian incursions stopped it, 
as the latter did again in 1830. 
Obstinate Hiccough.—Dr. Juaritz states, in the 
Siglo Medico , that a medical man, just convalescent from 
gastric fever, being seized with a very persistent and 
fatiguing hiccough, obtained relief, after many antispas- 
modics had been tried without effect, from an infusion of 
mustard, which he drank in mistake, thinking it an in¬ 
fusion of linseed.— Lancet. 
