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EIGHTEEN HUNDEED ~AND SIXTY-SEVEN. 
cannot be acknowledged as the representatives of all the unincorporated 
druggists of the country,—it would be as reasonable to suppose the Marylebone 
Vestry represented the parishioners of St. George, Hanover Square,—and 
whether that meeting was one of the united Society, or of chemists and drug¬ 
gists generally, we are not informed ; but we have very little misgiving about 
the good-will of those who are “ outsiders ’’ to both Societies, and we therefore 
copy from the ‘ Chemist and Druggist ’ the four resolutions passed at Man¬ 
chester, to compare thepa immediately after with the proposals of the Pharma¬ 
ceutical Society. 
*• That, as voluntary examination has failed to protect the public against incompe¬ 
tent druggists, this meeting recommends that a Bill be brought into Parliament to 
alter and amend the Pharmacy Act, so as to embrace all chemists and druggists 
within the Pharmaceutical Society, upon the principle of compulsory examination. 
“ That under the new Act, all examined members of the Pharmaceutical Society 
shall be entitled to distinction, whilst all other chemists and druggists, now in busi¬ 
ness, shall be members of the Society on payment of an annual fee, and be eligible 
to nominate, or to be nominated, upon the Council. 
“ That all existing assistants and apprentices may be registered as such, and be ad¬ 
mitted as members of the Society on becoming chemists and druggists in business ; 
but that all other persons, on becoming chemists and druggists, shall be required to 
pass a certain examination, and to pay such fees as may be agreed upon. 
“That the Executive Committee of the United Society be requested, as the repre¬ 
sentatives of the unincorporated chemists and druggists of the country, whose interests 
must chiefly be affected by any measure to regulate the trade, to lay these proposals 
before the Pharmaceutical Council for consideration; and that the Pharmaceutical 
Council be respectfully requested to communicate their answer to such proposals, un¬ 
reservedly, to the Executive Committee, so that that Committee may take the sense 
of the unincorporated chemists and druggists upon it before the meeting of Parlia¬ 
ment.” 
Outline of Memorandum sent to the Home Office hy the Council of the Pharma¬ 
ceutical Society^ in February^ 1860. 
“1. That in future all persons, before assuming the name or title of 
Chemist and Druggist, or keeping open shop for the compounding of medi¬ 
cines under physicians’ and surgeons’ prescriptions, or for vending, dis¬ 
pensing, or compounding certain dangerous drugs, chemicals, and other 
poisonous substances to be enumerated in a schedule, should undergo an 
examination and bo registered as Pharmaceutical Chemists or Chemists and 
Druggists. 
“ 2. The Examination for ‘ Pharmaceutical Chemists ’ should be, as 
heretofore, that which is known as the Major examination of the Pharma¬ 
ceutical Society. 
“ 3. The Examination for ‘ Chemists and Druggists’ should be that which 
is known as the ‘Minor Examination,’ and to which persons hitherto regis¬ 
tered as ‘Assistants’ have been subjected. 
“ 4. That all persons registered as chemists and druggists should be 
eligible for election to membership of the Pharmaceutical Society, under 
the bye-laws thereof; but they should not by virtue of that membership 
be entitled to registration as ‘ Pharmaceutical Chemists,’ that title being 
strictly kept for those only who pass the Major examination. They should 
have the right of nominating and voting for Members of Council, but the 
Council should consist only of members who are Pharmaceutical Chemists. 
“ 5. All persons registered under the Bill as chemists and druggists^to 
be exempt from serving on juries* 
“ 6. ^Nothing in the Bill to interfere with, or curtail the rights of chemists 
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