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Bill  was  proposed,  with  the  two-fold  object  of  admitting  Associates 
of  the  Pharmaceutical  Society  to  full  membership  and  altering  the 
procedure  in  connection  with  the  retirement  of  members  of  Council. 
It  was  not  proceeded  with — again  on  account  of  lack  of  support — 
nor  was  a  later  Bill,  drafted  in  1895,  which  dealt  with  the  same 
subjects  and,  in  addition,  proposed  to  restrict  the  compounding  of 
medicines  to  chemists.  That  measure  would  also  have  given  the 
Council  power  to  erase  names  from  the  Register  of  Chemists  and 
Druggists  for  infamous  conduct  in  a  professional  respect,  as  well 
as  to  impose  an  annual  fee  for  registration.  Four  years  later,  a 
Bill  drafted  with  similar  objects  to  that  of  1894  received  the  Royal 
Assent,  during  the  presidency  of  Mr.  Walter  Hills. 
The  Bills  drafted  during  Mr.  Carteighe' s  presidency  by  no  means 
represented  the  whole  of  the  work  entailed  in  the  endeavor  to  over- 
come the  unfortunate  difficulties  which  were  shown  by  the  judgment 
of  1880  to  exist.  It  seemed  hopeless  to  secure  legislation  to  effect 
the  desired  purpose,  and  the  Council  turned  its  attention  to  the  possi- 
bilities of  litigation.  The  Council  was  engaged  for  a  long  period 
in  the  discussion  of  methods  for  dealing  in  the  Law  Courts  with  the 
defects  revealed  by  the  decision,  the  hope  of  arriving  at  a  satisfactory 
remedy  having  doubtless  been  raised  by  some  of  the  dicta  of  Lord 
Justice  Blackburn.  One  of  the  results  of  these  discussions  was  the 
institution  of  proceedings  against  the  Leith  Depot,  Limited,  but  the 
Society  was  unsuccessful,  the  High  Court  of  Justiciary  holding  that 
the  shareholders  of  a  limited  company  are  not  personally  liable  under 
Section  15  of  the  Pharmacy  Act,  1868. 
Litigation  and  attempted  legislation  having  failed,  it  remained 
for  Air.  Carteighe  to  proceed  .with  his  own  particular  policy,  the 
policy  of  improved  education,  with  which  his  name  will  always 
be  associated.  No  doubt  there  are  many,  even  among  Michael  Car- 
teighe's  admirers,  who  still  fail  to  see  that  his  aspiration  towards 
the  higher  education  of  pharmacists  was  engendered  by  a  desire 
eventually  to  overcome  the  difficulties  arising  out  of  company  trad- 
ing. This  was  the  case,  however ;  he  recognized  before  anyone  else 
that  until  pharmacists  were  fitted  by  education  to  take  their  place 
among  the  professional  classes,  they  would  never  obtain  the  privi- 
leges of  those  classes,  and  he  set  to  work  to  bring  the  members  of 
the  craft  to  think  as  he  thought.  In  this  he  was  not  wholly  success- 
ful.   Briefly  put,  Mr.  Carteighe's  idea  was  to  raise  the  status  of  the 
