July 8,1871.3 
THE PHARMACEUTICAL JOURNAL AND TRANSACTIONS. 
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Mr. W. E. Forster: I have no intention of asking 
-the House to enter on a discussion of the Bill, or to go to 
a division this evening, hut I should he very glad if the 
House would assent to the course recommended hy the 
honourable gentleman the member for Finsbury (no, no); 
-and for this reason, a great deal of interest is felt in the 
Bill by gentlemen in the country, who are principally 
concerned in the progress of the measure. I believe my 
honourable and learned friend is only speaking the truth 
•when he says that a large number of those gentlemen 
will be glad to know how the Government propose to 
meet their objections. If I am allowed to take the 
second reading I should not consider the House pledged 
in any way to the merits of the Bill, but that is the only 
way I can put before them the Amended Bill, and I pro¬ 
pose to go into Committee, pro formd, to-morrow or the 
next day, for the purpose of printing the Amendments 
(no, no, withdraw). There is no other way by which 
rthe views of the Government can be placed before the 
House, or the members of the trade be informed of the 
manner in which the Government propose to deal with 
it (withdraw). I undertake not to discuss the measure 
until Monday week, and I really will pledge the Govern¬ 
ment, in the strongest way possible, to allow an oppor¬ 
tunity for discussing the Bill. 
Sir H. J. Selwin-Ibbetson : I hope the House will not 
■ngree to what has been just proposed (hear, hear), and I 
will state my reasons for it. I am quite aware that the 
country is very anxious to see any amendments the Go¬ 
vernment propose to make in the Bill, but I confess I 
look with some alarm on a practice that is growing up in 
•this House of assenting to the second reading of Bills 
and affirming principles without discussion (hear, hear). 
■ Supposing the Government to be anxious to amend the 
Bill, and that the country should have the earliest oppor¬ 
tunity of knowing what they propose, it was in their 
power to place the amendments on the paper (hear, 
Rear). They would then become public property and be 
•circulated throughout the country the same way as if the 
Bill were committed pro formd, and as then corrected, to 
be sent out. By such a course the House would not be 
pledged to the principle of a Bill we have not discussed. 
-ff hope the House will mark its sense of objection to what 
I think is a principle too lightly adopted (hear, hear). 
Mr. W. E. Forster : Allow me for one moment. My 
;Sole object is to get the alterations of the Government 
■brought before the House and the country as soon as 
possible. Although it is a very unusual course to take 
to place amendments on the paper before a Bill is read a 
second time, yet, as it appears to be the wish of the 
House that it should be done, I will do so (hear, hear). 
Dr. Dalrymple : I am sorry to find there appears to 
be so strong an opposition to the Bill. The principle 
involved in the Bill being read a second time is as clear 
■as possible, viz. that there is a right to put certain re¬ 
strictions on the sale of poisons. That these restrictions 
Rave not been tested is the fault of the parties them¬ 
selves ; but nothing could be more unfair or unjust than 
.that this Bill should pass as it now stands, and but for 
the fact that it was to be amended and fully and fairly 
put before the House and discussed, I should oppose the 
measure. 
Mr. Beresford Hope : I rise to second the statement 
of the honourable baronet the member for West Essex. 
K am glad the House has made this protest against read¬ 
ing Bills a second time in the manner now proposed. 
Mr. W. E. Forster: I will take the( second reading 
on Monday week. 
Petitions were presented against the Bill from— 
Bangor and neighbourhood, by Mr. Jones-Parry. 
Cheltenham, by Mr. H. B. Samuelson. 
Hereford, by Major Arbuthnot. 
Liverpool, by Lord Sandon. 
Maidenhead, by Mr. Walter. 
Manchester Society of Chemists and Druggists, bv 
Mr. Jacob Bright. 
Radcliff Bridge, by Mr. Jacob Bright. 
In order to afford a ready means of comparing the 
amendments with the Bill as at first introduced, wo 
reprint them here, together with the original draft and 
the recommendations lately issued by the Pharmaceu¬ 
tical Society as to the keeping, dispensing and selling of 
poisons. 
AMENDED FORM OF A BILL INTITULED AN 
ACT TO AMEND THE PHARMACY ACT, 1868. 
*** The amendments are in italics . 
Whereas under the Pharmacy Act, 1868, persons sell¬ 
ing or keeping open shop for retailing, dispensing, or 
compounding poisons are required to conform to such 
regulations as to the keeping, dispensing, and selling of 
poisons as may from time to time be prescribed by the 
Pharmaceutical Society, with the consent of the Privy 
Council: 
And whereas the Pharmaceutical Society have failed 
to submit for the consent of the Privy Council any regu¬ 
lations for the above purposes, and it is expedient to 
make further provision for the making of such regula¬ 
tions : 
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. This Act shall bo construed as one with the Phar¬ 
macy Act, 1868 (in this Act referred to as the principal 
Act), and with the Act of the Session of the thirty- 
second and thirty-third years of the reign of her present 
Majesty, chapter one hundred and seventeen, intituled 
“An Act to Amend the Pharmacy Act, 1868,” and those 
Acts and this Act may be cited together as the Pharmacy 
Acts, 1868 to 1871, and each of the above-mentioned 
Acts and this Act may be cited as the Pharmacy Act of 
the year in which it was passed. 
2. The recited powers of the Pharmaceutical Society 
of Great Britain under the principal Act shall cease. 
A fter the first day of October , 1871, the regulations as to 
the keeping, dispensing and selling of poisons within the 
meaning of the principal Act, which are set out in the 
schedule to this Act, shall he observed by all persons who 
keep open shop for the retailing , dispensing or compounding 
of poisons, and shall have the same effect as regulations pre¬ 
scribed in manner specified in the principal Act, and the 
provisions of the principal Act relating to such regulations 
shall be construed accordingly. 
Every person who keeps open shop for the retailing, dis¬ 
pensing or compounding of poisons, and fails to conform 
with any of the said regulations shall, notwithstanding 
anything contained in section sixteen of the principal Act, 
or in section one of the Pharmacy Act, 1869, be liable to a 
penalty not exceeding in the case of the first offence five 
pounds, and in the case of a second or any subsequent offence 
ten pounds, which penalties may be recovered on summary 
conviction as penalties under the principal Act may be re¬ 
covered. 
The Council of the Pharmaceutical Society may from time 
to time, by resolution approved by the Privy Council, revoke , 
alter and add to the regulations contained in the schedule to 
this Act, or made in pursuance of this section, and make 
new regulations in their place ; and such resolution so ap¬ 
proved shall, on coming into operation, have effect as if it 
were contained in the schedule to this Act. 
Every resolution so approved shall be published in such 
manner as the Privy Council may direct, and shall come 
into operation at the date of such publication, or such later 
date as may be specified in the resolution. 
Sections ten and eleven of the principal Act are hereby 
repealed, and in lieu thereof be it enacted as follows :— 
It shall be the duty of the Registrar to make and keep a 
