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A BILL FOR REGULATING TIIE 
SCHEDULE C. 
Declaration to he signed hg a duly qualified Medical Practitioner respecting a person 
who claims to he registered as a Chemist and Druggist , upon the ground ' that he 
was in business as a Chemist and Druggist in Great Britain before the day 
of January , 1866. 
To the Registrar of the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain. 
I, • , residing at , in the County of , hereby 
declare that I am a duly qualified Medical Practitioner, and that to my knowledge 
, residing at , in the County of , was in business 
as a Chemist and Druggist, and in the keeping of open shop for the compounding of the 
Prescriptions of duly qualified Medical Practitioners, before the 1st day of January, 1866. 
Signed 
SCHEDULE D. 
To the Registrar of the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain. 
We hereby declare that the undersigned , residing at ? 
in the County of , had before the passing of the Chemists and Druggists Act, 
1865, been actually employed as an Assistant to a Pharmaceutical Chemist or Chemist 
and Druggist, and attained the age of twenty-one years. 
As witness our hands, this day of , 1865. 
A. B., Assistant. 
C. D., Chemist and Druggist. 
A BILL LOR REGULATING THE QUALIFICATIONS 
OF CHEMISTS AND DRUGGISTS IN ENGLAND 
AND WALES. 
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Bill No. 2, introduced by Sir John Shelley. 
Preamble. Whereas it is expedient for the safety of the public, and to prevent 
and avoid the mischief of ignorant and incompetent persons carrying on 
the trade of Chemists and Druggists, that persons exercising the business 
or calling of Chemists and Druggists, retailing or dispensing drugs and 
medicines, should possess a competent practical knowledge of drugs and 
medicines and other branches of knowledge, and should be duly examined 
as to their skill and knowledge by competent persons: 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 
Title of Act. l. That this Act shall for all purposes be cited as “The Chemists and 
Druggists Act.” 
“ CCmCn 2. This Act shall commence and take effect from the 
-— day of 
Constitution of 3. A Council, which shall be styled “ The Council of Chemists and 
Registered Che- Druggists Society of England and Wales,” shall be formed, to consist of 
mists and Drug- a President, Vice-President, and in addition thereto of not less than 
gists to vote for twenty-one gentlemen, to be annually elected from the general body of 
Members of the Chemists and Druggists registered under this Act: that all registered 
Chemists and Druggists shall be entitled to vote for members of the said 
Council of Chemists and Druggists, and may give their votes either 
personally or by voting papers, signed by them in such form as shall be 
defined in the bye-laws of the said Council, such voting papers being 
transmitted under cover to the Secretary of the Council not less thau 
clear days prior to the day on which the election is to take 
place. 
