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PROCEEDINGS  OF  THE 
members  by  signing  the  Constitution  and  paying  the  annual  contri- 
bution. 
The  Committee  on  Credentials  reported  for  membership  J.  B. 
Lane,  of  Fitchburg,  and  A.  S.  Jones,  of  Newburyport,  Mass.,  and 
they  also  being  present,  complied  with  the  requirements  of  the 
Constitution. 
Joseph  Laidley  offered  the  following: 
Resolved,  That  a  Committee  of  three  be  appointed  to  consider 
the  feasibility  of  forming  a  benevolent  fund  for  the  relief  of  such 
members  of  this  Association  as  may  need  its  aid ;  and  if  they  con- 
sider it  feasible,  that  they  recommend  such  means  for  raising:,  and 
rules  for  governing,  the  proposed  fund,  as  they  may  deem  suitable, 
and  report  to  the  next  annual  meeting. 
A  motion  to  lay  on  the  table  was  decided  in  the  negative,  and 
the  resolution  was  lost. 
The  Report  of  the  Committee  on  the  Sale  of  Poisons,  being  now 
taken  up,  the  recommendations  of  the  Committee  were  embodied 
in  the  form  of  resolutions  by  its  Chairman.  A  motion  was  made  to 
lay  them  on  the  table,  and  lost.  They  were  discussed  by  several 
members. 
An  amendment  proposed  by  C  A.  Smith,  to  substitute  the  word 
arsenic  for  popular  poisons,  was  adopted. 
Thomas  Restieaux.  of  Boston,  moved  they  be  indefinitely  post- 
poned.   It  was  not  agreed  to. 
The  question  on  the  resolutions  being  taken,  they  w7ere  adopted, 
as  follows: 
Resolved,  That  this  Association,  in  view  of  the  loose  manner  in 
which  the  sale  of  arsenic  is  conducted  in  this  country,  earnestly 
recommend  to  the  pharmaceutical  bodies,  where  these  exist,  and 
to  druggists  and  pharmaceutists  in  general  in  other  places,  that  the 
several  Legislatures  in  those  States  where  no  law  on  the  subject 
exists,  be  petitioned  to  pass  laws  confining  the  sale  of  this  poison 
to  apothecaries,  druggists,  and  physicians,  or  to  such  other  persons 
as  shall  be  specially  licensed  by  law,  who  shall  be  required  to  keep 
a  record  of  such  sales.  That  such  sales  shall  not  be  made  to  minors 
or  servants  unless  they  be  properly  authorized  by  a  written  order 
from  a  responsible  person.  That  all  packages  or  bottles  shall  be 
distinctly  labelled  with  the  name  of  the  poison,  and  the  word  poison 
prominently  marked  on  it  ;  and  finally,  that  any  sale  of  arsenic 
followed  by  accident,  in  which  these  precautions  have  been  ne- 
glected, be  considered  a  misdemeanor  punishable  by  legal  process.'' 
C.  B.  Guthrie  offered  the  following,  which  was  adopted  : 
Resolved,  That  the  Executive  Committee  be  requested  to  pub- 
lish and  circulate  a  circular  address  to  druggists  and  apothecaries, 
announcing  the  time  of  our  next  meeting,  the  objects  of  the  Asso- 
