MEMOIRS  OF  PHILADELPHIA  COLLEGE  OF  PHARMACY.  99 
by  the  Provincial  Assembly,  which  recommended  a  general  Con- 
gress of  all  the  American  Colonies,  which  Congress  also  met  in 
this  Hall,  and  in  it  inaugurated  those  measures  which,  after  the 
perils  of  the  Revolution,  terminated  so  favorably  for  civil  liberty 
in  America  and  throughout  the  world.  Here  also  assembled, 
in  1787,  that  convention  of  wise  and  far-seeing  statesmen  which 
framed  the  Constitution  of  the  United  States  of  America. 
At  the  first  meeting  of  the  Druggists  and  Apothecaries  of 
Philadelphia,  the  resolutions  of  the  Board  of  Trustees  of  the 
University  to  which  I  have  referred,  and  which  had  already  ap- 
peared in  Poulson's  American  Daily  Advertiser,  were  read  as 
follows  : 
Resolved.  1st,  that  the  degree  of  Master  of  Pharmacy  be  and 
it  is  hereby  instituted,  to  be  conferred  hereafter  by  the  Trustees 
of  this  University  on  such  persons  exercisino;  or  intending  to 
exercise  the  profession  of  apothecary  as  are  an^  shall  be  duly 
qualified  to  receive  the  same. 
2d.  That  the  faculty  of  medicine  be  requested  to  report  to 
this  Board  at  the  next  meeting  a  proper  form  of  diploma,  and 
also  a  list  of  such  apothecaries  in  the  city  and  liberties  of  Phila- 
delphia as  are  desirous  and,  in  their  opinion,  deserving  of  ob- 
taining the  degree  of  Master  of  Pharmacy  ;  and  unless  sufficient 
reason  to  the  contrary  shall  appear  the  degree  of  Master  of 
Pharmacy  shall  be  conferred  on  such  individuals  respectively. 
3d.  That  every  person  who  shall  have  served  a  regular  ap- 
prenticeship, of  at  least  three  years,  with  a  respectable  apothe- 
cary,— -a  Master  of  Pharmacy — and  who  shall  exercise  the  pro- 
fession of  an  apothecary  in  this  State  or  elsewhere,  may,  on 
application  to  this  Board,  obtain  the  degree  of  Master  of  Phar- 
macy ;  ■provided^  he  shall  produce  a  certificate  of  the  faculty  of 
medicine,  signed  by  the  Dean  thereof,  of  his  being  qualified  to 
receive  the  same,  which  certificate  the  faculty  may  grant  on  the 
attestation  of  the  Professors  of  Chemistry,  Materia  Medica  and 
Pharmacy  who  shall  have  examined  the  candidate,  and  also  a 
certificate  of  his  good  moral  character. 
4th.  That  in  future  it  shall  be  requisite,  for  obtaining  such 
degree,  that  the  candidate  shall  have  attended  at  least  two  courses 
of  lectures  on  Chemistry,  Materia  Medica  and  Pharmacy  in  this 
University. 
