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PROCEEDINGS  OF  THE 
8th.  The  subject  of  State  and  Municipal  laws  controlling  the  sale 
of  drugs.    This  was  on  motion  postponed. 
Adjourned  till  half-past  nine  o'clock  to-morrow  morning. 
August  25th — Morning  Session. 
Vice  President  Alexander  Duval  presiding. 
The  minutes  of  yesterday's  session  were  approved. 
George  D.  Coggeshall,  of  New  York,  who  was  absent  at  the  pre- 
vious sessions,  appeared  and  took  his  seat  as  first  Vice-president. 
The  proposal  to  amend  the  Constitution,  offered  yesterday  by  the 
Special  Committee  on  local  secretaryships,  as  amended  by  E.  Par- 
rish,  was  now  read  and  adopted,  as  follows  : 
Addition  to  section  2d,  Constitution,  article  6.  "  At  each  annual 
meeting  the  Association  may  appoint  correspondents  in  any  part  of 
the  Union,  whose  duty  it  shall  be  to  communicate  to  the  Corres- 
ponding Secretary  any  information  which  they  may  be  enabled  to 
obtain  on  subjects  of  interest  to  the  Association,  such  correspond- 
ents who  are  not  members,  when  accepting  the  appointment,  to  be 
entitled  to  membership  on  signing  the  Constitution  and  Code  of 
Ethics,  ami  on  payment  of  the  annual  contribution." 
The  further  proposition  to  strike  out  from  section  2,  article  4,  the 
words  "in  attendance  at  the  annual  meetings,"  after  some  dis- 
cussion, was  adopted  as  follows: 
"  Article  IV.  Every  member  shall  pay  into  the  hands  of  the  Trea- 
surer the  sum  of  two  dollars  as  his  yearly  contribution." 
Andrew  Geyer,  of  Boston,  moved  the  following,  which  was 
adopted  : 
Ordered,  That  a  Committee  of  three  be  appointed  to  inquire  into 
the  expediency  of  obtaining  a  form  of  certificate  of  membership,  for 
the  use  of  this  Association,  with  such  insignia  or  device,  or  other- 
wise, as  shall  in  their  opinion  be  deemed  suitable,  and  report  their 
doings  at  the  next  annual  meeting. 
The  chair  appointed  A.  Geyer,  chairman,  and  C.  Ellis  and  Joseph 
Laidley,  the  Committee. 
The  Committee  on  Credentials  introduced  the  names  of  Ashel 
Boyden,  of  Boston,  Mass.;  Thomas  Farrington,  ditto;  William  15. 
Little,  San  Francisco,  Cal,  as  recommended  for  membership.  The 
former  being  present,  signed  the  Constitution  and  paid  his  yearly 
contribution. 
The  President  of  the  Association,  being  now  present,  resumed 
the  Chair.  The  report  of  the  Committee  on  the  Inspection  of 
Drugs  was  now  on  motion  taken  up. 
Geo.  D.  Coggeshall,  of  New  York,  offered  a  letter  received  by 
him  from  Dr.  Bailey,  special  examiner  of  drugs  at  the  port  of 
New  York,  which  on  motion  was  read. 
