QUALIFICATIONS OF CHEMISTS AND DRUGGISTS. 
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• 4. One calendar month's notice of all meetings for the annual election One month’s 
of Members of the Council shall he given by advertisement, which shall tigement'of iVer " 
specify the place, the day, and the hour of meeting, and the names of all Election of the 
gentlemen who may have been nominated as candidates for the office of Council, 
members of the said Council; that after the first election of members of 
the Council as hereinafter provided for, the nomination of candidates 
shall be made in such form and at such time as shall he provided by the 
bye-laws of the Company. 
5. The President and Vice-President of the Council of Chemists and President and 
Druggists, and their successors, shall hold their offices for the term of ^Toi^Office** 
three years respectively, and it shall be lawful for the General Council Three Years.— 
from time to time, as often as it may be necessary in case of the death, In case of Death, 
resignation, or incapacity to act of the president and vice-president, or n ’ et< n ’ 
either of them, before the expiration of their term of office, to nominate ^appoint 0 ™ 01 
and appoint a successor or successors to fill the said offices of president successors, 
and vice-president, or either of them, for the remainder of the term of 
office. 
G. Upon the day of in the year following One-third of the 
the first election of Councillors under this Act, and in every succeeding 0 f office annually, 
year, one third part of the ordinary members of the General Council 
shall go out of office ; and in the said year following the first election of 
councillors under this Act those who shall go out of office shall be the 
councillors who were elected under the provisions of such Act at the first 
election by the smallest number of votes; and in the next succeeding 
year those who shall go out of office shall be the councillors who were 
elected under the provisions of this Act at such first election by the next 
smallest number of votes, the majority of the whole Council always 
determining, when the votes for any such person shall have been equal, 
who shall be the persons so to go out of office, and thereafter those who 
shall so go out of office shall always be the councillors who have been 
for the longest time in office without re-election : provided always, that 
any councillor so going out of office shall be capable of being forthwith 
re-elected if then qualified as herein provided. 
7. In case of the death, resignation, or incapacity to act of any mem- Jn , case of death, 
ber of the said Council before the expiration of his term of office, the oOlembers of' 
other members of the Council may, from time to time, and as often the Council, the 
as any such vacancies may arise, nominate and appoint a duly registered other Members 
member of the Society to fill such vacancy for the remainder of the said lessors for the* 
term. _ remainder of 
8. For the purpose of putting the provisions of this Act in operation, term. 
it shall be lawful for one of Her Majesty’s principal Secretaries of State TJig s ^7 tar rQ f 
to nominate and appoint a Commissioner, who shall by public advertise- state to appoint 
ment in the ‘ London Gazette,’ and in such public newspapers published a Commissioner 
and circulated in such of the principal towns and cities of England and to put the Act in 
Wales as he shall deem expedient, call a meeting of all persons carrying commissioner to 
on the trade and business of Chemists and Druggists in England and ca n a public 
Wales, such meeting to be held at some convenient place in the metro- meeting of Che- 
polis, at a day and hour to be specified in such advertisement in the 
‘ London Gazette,’ not earlier than one calendar month from the date of c se raent, to be 
the publication of the advertisement in the ‘ London Gazette,’for the first held in the me- 
election of a President and Vice-President and the members of the tropolis. 
Council. 
9. At such meeting so called, the said Commissioner shall proceed to At such meeting 
the election of a President, Vice-President, and the twent/j-one members and 6 * 
of the Council, and shall determine the said election by the votes of the Members of the 
Chemists and Druggists present at such meeting; that the names of all Council to be 
persons, with their addresses and occupations, intended to be proposed as elected, 
candidates, shall be sent in to the said Commissioner at the Secretary of 
State’s Office at the least one week before the day of the said election, 
and that no other candidates shall be put up for election at the said 
