CHARTER  OF   THE  PHARMACEUTICAL  SOCIETY. 
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knowledge  by  competent  persons,  and  that  a  register  should  be 
kept  by  some  legally  authorized  officer  of  all  such  persons  :  And 
whereas,  for  the  purpose  aforesaid,  and  for  extending  the  bene- 
fits which  have  already  resulted  from  the  said  Charter  of  Incor- 
poration, it  is  desirable  that  additional  powers  should  be  granted 
for  regulating  the  qualifications  of  persons  who  may  carry  on  the 
the  business  of  Pharmaceutical  Chemists  :  be  it  enacted,  by  the 
Queen's  most  excellent  Majesty,  by  and  with  the  advice  and  con- 
sent of  the  Lords  spiritual  and  temporal,  and  Commons,  in  this 
present  Parliament  assembled,  and  by  the  authority  of  the  same; 
I.  That  the  said  Charter  of  Incorporation,  granted  to  the  said 
Society  on  the  18th  day  of  February,  1843,  save  and  except  such 
part  or  parts  thereof  as  are  hereby  altered,  varied,  or  repealed, 
shall  be  and  the  same  is  hereby  confirmed  and  declared  to  be  in 
full  force  and  virtue,  and  shall  be  as  good  and  effectual  to  all  in- 
tents and  purposes  as  if  this  Act  had  not  been  passed. 
II.  The  Council  of  the  said  Pharmaceutical  Society  shall  be 
and  the  same  are  hereby  authorized  and  empowered  to  alter  and 
amend  the  by-laws  of  the  said  Society,  made  and  established 
under  or  in  pursuance  of  the  said  Charter  of  Incorporation,  and 
to  make  and  establish  such  new  or  additional  by-laws  as  they 
shall  deem  proper  and  necessary  for  the  purposes  contemplated 
by  the  said  charter  or  by  this  Act ;  provided  always,  that  all  such 
original  by-laws,  and  all  altered,  amended,  or  additional  by-laws, 
shall  be  confirmed  and  approved  by  a  Special  General  Meeting 
of  the  members  of  the  said  Pharmaceutical  Society,  and  by  one 
of  her  Majesty's  principal  Secretaries  of  State ;  provided  also, 
that  the  existing  by-laws  of  the  said  Society  shall  continue  in 
force  until  the  next  Annual  Meeting  of  the  said  Society,  to  be 
held  in  the  month  of  May,  1853. 
III.  At  all  meetings  of  the  said  Society,  at  which  votes  shall 
be  given  for  the  election  of  officers,  all  members  entitled  to  vote 
may  give  their  votes  either  personally,  or,  in  cases  of  residence 
exceeding  five  miles  from  the  General  Post  Office,  St.  Martin's- 
le-Grand,  London,  by  voting  papers  authorized  by  writing,  in  a 
form  to  be  defined  in  the  by-laws  of  the  said  Society,  or  in  a  form 
to  the  like  effect,  such  voting  papers  being  transmitted  under 
cover  to  the  secretary  not  less  than  five  clear  days  prior  to  the 
day  on  which  the  election  is  to  take  place. 
