THE PHARMACEUTICAL JOURNAL AND TRANSACTIONS. 
[February 25, 1871. 
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Wednesday ...Pharmaceutical Society of Great JBritain, at 
8.30 p.m. “ The Microscope and its Reve¬ 
lations.” By Dr. W. B. Carpenter. 
Society of Arts, at 8 p.m. —“The Principles 
of School Organization and Instruction as 
Advocated by the Society of Arts.” By 
Rev. W. H. Brookfield, M.A. 
Hoyal Medical and Chirurgical Society, at 
8 p.m. Annual Meeting. 
Thursday . Hoyal Society, at 8.30 p.m. 
Hoyal Institution, at 3 p.m. —“Davy’s Dis¬ 
coveries in Chemistry.” By Prof. Odling. 
Linnean Society, at 8 p.m. 
Chemical Society, at 8 p.m. 
London Institution, at 7.30 p.m. —“ The Ac¬ 
tion, Nature and Detection of Poisons.” 
By F. S. Barff. 
Friday . Hoyal Institution, at 9 p.m. —“ The Latest 
Scientific Researches in the Mediterranean 
and Straits of Gibraltar.” By Dr. W. B. 
Carpenter. 
parliamentary anh fate fmttbinjjs. 
A BILL TO AMEND THE LAW FOR THE PRE¬ 
VENTION OF ADULTERATION OF FOOD 
AND DRINK AND OF DRUGS. 
Whereas the practice of adulterating articles of food 
and drink and drugs for sale, in fraud of Her Majesty’s 
.subjects, and to the great hurt of their health and danger 
to their lives, requires to be repressed by more effectual 
laws than those which are now in force for that purpose : 
Be it therefore 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. Every person who shall wilfully admix, and every 
person who shall order any other person or persons to ad¬ 
mix, with any article of food or drink, any injurious or poi¬ 
sonous ingredient or material to adulterate the same for 
;sale, and every person who shall wilfully admix, and every 
person who shall order any other person or persons to 
admix, any ingredient or material with any drug to 
adulterate the same for sale, shall for the first offence 
forfeit and pay a penalty not exceeding £50, together 
with the costs attending such conviction, and for the 
second offence shall be guilty of a misdemeanour, and 
be imprisoned for a period not exceeding six calendar 
months, with hard labour. 
2. Every person who shall sell any article of food or 
drink with which to the knowledge of such person any 
ingredient or material injurious to the health of persons 
eating or drinking such article has been mixed, and 
e.ry person who shall sell as pure and adulterated any 
.article of food or drink, or any drug which is adulterated 
oi not pure, shall tor every such offence, on a summary 
conviction of the same before two justices of the peace 
at petty. sessions in England, and in Scotland before 
tvo justices of the peace in the justices of the peace 
court, or before the sheriff substitute of the county, or 
before justices, at petty sessions or a divisional justice in 
Ireland, forfeit and pay a penalty not exceeding £20, 
together with such costs attending such conviction as to 
the said justices shall seem reasonable; and if any per¬ 
son so convicted shall afterwards commit the like offence, 
^ be lawful for such justices of the peace to cause 
such offender s name, place of abode, and offence to be 
published, at the expense of such offender, in such news- 
paper or m such other manner as to the said justices 
shall seem desirable. 
3. And be it enacted that the Pharmacy Act, 1868 
and the Act 23 & 24 Viet. c. 84, for preventing th 
.adulteration of articles of food and drink, shall be deeme( 
to be incorporated in this Act. 
4. Any purchaser of any article of food or drink o: 
■drugs in any district, county, city, or borough when 
there is a public analyst appointed shall be entitled, on 
payment to such analyst of a sum not exceeding 10s. 
to have any such article analysed, and to receive from 
such analyst a certificate of the result of his analysis, 
specifying whether, in his opinion, such article is adul¬ 
terated, and also whether, if it be an article of food or 
drink, it is so adulterated as to be injurious to the health 
of persons eating or drinking the same. 
5. Any person who has been convicted of any offence 
punishable by this Act by any justices may appeal to 
the next general or quarter sessions of the peace which 
shall be held for the city, county, town, or place wherein 
such judgment or conviction shall have been made, or in 
the case of the conviction having been before a sheriff 
substitute in Scotland, then the appeal shall be to the 
sheriff of the county, provided that such person enter 
into, a recognizance within two days next after such con¬ 
viction, with two sufficient securities, conditioned to try 
such appeal, and to be forthcoming to abide the judg¬ 
ment and determination of the Court at such general or 
quarter sessions, or shei’iff, and to pay such costs as 
shall be by such Court awarded; and the justices before 
whom such conviction shall be had are hereby em¬ 
powered and required to take such recognizance ; and the 
Court at such general or quarter sessions, or sheriff, are 
hereby authorized and required to hear and finally de¬ 
termine the matter of every such appeal, and may award 
such costs to the party appealing or appealed against as 
they shall think proper. 
6. If any such conviction or judgment or order of for¬ 
feiture shall happen to be made within six days before 
any general or quarter sessions of the peace shall be held 
for the city, county, town, or place wherein such con¬ 
viction shall have been made, the person who shall think 
himself aggrieved by any such conviction may, on en¬ 
tering into a recognizance in manner and for the pur¬ 
poses before directed, be at liberty to appeal cither to 
the then next or next following general or quarter ses¬ 
sions of the peace which shall be held for any such city, 
county* town, or place wherein any such conviction shall 
have been made, on giving six days’ notice to the com¬ 
plainant of his intention to appeal. 
7.. Any person who shall have been convicted by any 
justices or sheriff substitute of any offence punishable 
by this Act, in respect of the selling of any article of 
food or drink or drugs which shall have been manufac¬ 
tured according to any process patented before the pass¬ 
ing of this Act, either by the patentee or owner of the 
patent,, or by any person carrying on his business or 
otherwise claiming under him during the continuance of 
such patent,.may, instead of appealing to the general or 
quarter sessions of the peace or sheriff of the county, 
apply in writing within five days after such conviction 
to the justices or sheriff substitute, to state and sign a 
case for the opinion of one of the superior courts of 
law thereon, in like manner as under the statute of the 
20. & 21 years of her Majesty, c. 43, he might have ap¬ 
plied to the justices to state and sign a case, and there¬ 
upon. all such proceedings shall take place upon and in 
relation to such application, and all such 2 )r ovisions 
shall be applicable thereto, as would have taken placo 
upon and in relation thereto, and been applicable thereto, 
under the provisions of the said last-mentioned Act; and 
in Scotland, for the purposes of such appeal, the justices 
or shei'iff substitute may state and sign a case for the 
opinion of the Court of Session, in like manner as the 
justices in England and Ireland may, for the opinion 
of the superior courts of law under the said Act, and 
the Court of Session shall have in relation thereto the 
like powers as the superior courts have under the 
said Act, and all the other provisions of the said Act 
shall be applicable to such appeals. 
8. In England the provisions in the Nuisances Removal 
Act for England, 1855, as to procedure, and the provi¬ 
sions of the Act of the 11 & 12 years of the reign of 
her present Majesty, intituled “ An Act to Facilitate the 
