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between the two Bills great good will result; and I can only say for the Society which 
I represent, there has never been any other wish and intention than that the two Societies 
should come together and act for the good of the whole community. I now move, Sir, 
that this Bill be read a second time. 
Colonel Sykes.— I hope the Select Committee will take into their serious consideration 
how far it is desirable that the dispensers of medicines in villages should also be dealers 
in fiddles, hobnails, and the like, and dispensers of medicines at the same time. 
The motion for reading the Bill a second time was agreed to, and also that it be 
referred to the Select Committee upon Sir Fitzroy Kelly’s Bill. 
CHEMISTS AND DRUGGISTS BILLS. 
On the motion of Sir Fitzroy Kelly, the following Members have been appointed on the 
SELECT COMMITTEE 
Sir Fitzroy Kelly.East Suffolk. 
Sir John Shelley.Westminster. 
Lord Elcho .Haddingtonshire. 
T. G. Baring...Penryn and Falmouth. 
Dr. Brady.Leitrim. 
F. C. Hastings Russell ...Bedfordshire. 
Charles W. Wynn .Montgomeryshire. 
A. S. Ayrton .Tower Hamlets 
G. Sclater-Booth .North Hants. 
W. Cox.Finsbury. 
H. W. Schneider .Lancaster. 
Sir J. Fergusson .Ayrshire. 
Charles Forster.Walsall. 
J. A. Roebuck .Sheffield. 
Adam Black.Edinburgh. 
April G, 18G5. 
REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE OF THE MEDICAL COUNCIL ON THE 
PHARMACY BILL. 
REPORT. 
The Committee appointed on April 7th, 1865, to report whether the Medical Council 
is charged under the Medical Act with any duty in relation to medical and surgical 
practice by chemists and druggists, and also to consider and report on the two Bills 
relating to Pharmacy now before Parliament, report as follows:—• 
In 18G4, the General Medical Council represented to her Majesty’s Government the 
necessity of regulating by statute the practice of pharmacy by chemists and druggists 
throughout the kingdom. The committee are of opinion that this necessity continues as 
cogent as ever; and that the Council ought to encourage and support any approved 
measure for effecting such legislation. 
Two Bills for the purpose have been introduced into the House of Commons during 
the present session, one promoted by the Pharmaceutical Society, the other by chemists 
and druggists not belonging to that body. The Bill of the latter is confined to England 
and Wales, that of the former to Great Britain. 
After carefully considering both Bills, the Committee are of opinion that the pre¬ 
ferable mode of legislation is that which adopts the Pharmaceutical Society with the 
Pharmacy Act of 1852 as a basis. They think the Bill promoted by the Society well 
fitted to attain various important objects, and reasonable in its demands for powers and 
privileges. 
The main objects of the Bill are to form a register of legally-qualified Pharmaceut'cal 
