A BILL TO REGULATE THE 
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he described to the Society several years ago, and a woodcut of which appeared in the 
Journal, along with a full description of its use and application. Mr. Stephenson 
moved a vote of thanks both to Mr. Brown and Mr. Stevenson, which was ^seconded by 
Mr. Mackay, and carried with acclamation. 
The meeting thereafter adjourned. 
PROVINCIAL TRANSACTIONS. 
GLASGOW CHEMISTS AND DRUGGISTS’ FESTIVAL. 
The Fifth Annual Soiree, Concert, and Assembly of the Glasgow Chemists and Drug¬ 
gists, under the auspices of the Glasgow Chemists and Druggists’ Association, was held 
in the Merchants’ Hall, on Thursday evening, February 2nd. Hugh Hart, Esq., occupied 
the chair. He was accompanied to the platform by a deputation from the Pharmaceutical 
Society, Edinburgh, consisting of Messrs. Kemp (President), Gardner, Blanshard, and 
Brown; by Drs. A. M. Robertson, Paterson, Wilson, Morton, Tannerhill, Milner, etc., 
and Messrs. William Murdoch, Kinninmont, Campbell, Maccall, Moffat, Taite, Jardine, 
Black, Brodie, etc. 
There was a large assemblage of ladies and gentlemen present, amounting to 446, who, 
after listening to an address from the President (which we are compelled to omit for want 
of space), were entertained in a manner that proved highly satisfactory and edifying. 
ORIGINAL AND EXTRACTED ARTICLES, 
Preamble. 
After the 1st 
January, 1866, 
all Chemists and 
Druggists, if not 
Pharmaceutical 
Chemists, to be 
examined.—Sav¬ 
ing rights of 
Chemists and 
Druggists then 
in business. 
A BILL TO REGULATE THE QUALIFICATIONS OF 
CHEMISTS AND DRUGGISTS. 
Bill No. 1, introduced by Sir Fitzroy Kelly. 
Whereas it is expedient for the safety of the public that persons carry¬ 
ing on the business of a Chemist and Druggist, by retail, in the keeping 
of open shop for the compounding of the prescriptions of duly qualified 
medical practitioners, should possess a competent practical knowledge of 
such business, and to that end that persons before commencing such 
business should be duly examined as to their skill and knowledge, and 
that a Register should be established and kept of all persons carrying on 
such business; and also, that the Act passed in the fifteenth and six¬ 
teenth years of the reign of Her present Majesty, intituled “ An Act for 
Regulating the Qualifications of Pharmaceutical Chemists,” hereinafter 
described as the Pharmacy Act, should be amended: 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: 
1. From and after th q first day of January, one thousand eight hundred 
and sixty-six, it shall not be lawful for any person to carry on the busi¬ 
ness of a chemist and druggist in the keeping of open shop for the 
compounding of the prescriptions of duly qualified medical practitioners 
in any part of Great Britain, unless such person shall be a Pharmaceu¬ 
tical Chemist within the meaning of the Pharmacy Act, or shall be 
duly registered as a Chemist and Druggist under this Act; and no per¬ 
son shall be registered as a Chemist and Druggist under this Act unless 
he shall before the first of January, one thousand eight hundred and sixty- 
six, have carried on business as a Chemist and Druggist, or shall have 
been registered as an Assistant as herein provided, or shall have been 
examined by examiners, and have received a certificate of competent skill 
and knowledge. 
