CHARTER  OFTHEPHARMACEUTICAL  SOCIETY. 
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by-laws  thereof,  or  under  this  Act,  shall  be  and  the  same  are 
hereby  declared  to  be  fit  and  proper  persons  to  conduct  all  such 
examinations  as  are  provided  for  or  contemplated  by  this  Act, 
and  shall  respectively  have  full  power  and  authority  and  are 
hereby  authorized  and  empowered  to  examine  all  persons  who 
shall  present  themselves  for  examination  under  the  provisions  of 
this  Act  in  their  knowledge  of  the  Latin  language,  in  Botany,  in 
Materia  Medica,  and  in  Pharmaceutical  and  general  Chemistry, 
and  such  other  subjects  as  may  from  time  to  time  be  determined 
by  any  by-law  ;  provided  always  that  such  examinations  shall  not 
include  the  Theory  and  Practice  of  Medicine,  Surgery,  or  Mid- 
wifery ;  and  the  said  examiners  are  hereby  empowered  to  grant 
or  refuse  to  such  persons,  as  in  their  discretion  may  seem  fit, 
certificates  of  competent  skill  and  knowledge  and  qualification  to 
exercise  the  business  or  calling  of  Pharmaceutical  Chemists,  or,  as 
the  case  may  require,  to  be  engaged  or  employed  as  Students, 
Apprentices,  or  Assistants  respectively. 
IX.  And  to  enable  the  said  Society  to  provide  for  the  examina- 
tion in  Scotland  of  such  Students,  Apprentices,  or  Assistants  in 
Scotland  as  may  desire  to  be  examined  there,  it  shall  be  law- 
ful for  the  Council  of  the  Society,  and  they  are  hereby  required,  to 
appoint  such  fit  and  proper  persons  in  Scotland,  to  meet  in  Edin- 
burgh or  Glasgow,  or  such  other  place  or  places  as  the  Council 
may  think  desirable,  and  to  conduct  there  all  such  examinations  as 
are  provided  for  and  contemplated  by  this  Act,  with  such  and  the 
like  powers  and  authorities  in  respect  thereof  as  are  herein  con- 
ferred, and  to  grant  to  the  persons  to  be  so  examined  such  and  the 
like  certificates  as  are  hereinbefore  specified  and  referred  to,  or  to 
refuse  the  same  ;  and  all  the  provisions  of  this  Act  shall  be  equally 
applicable  to  the  examiners,  examinations,  and  parties  examined 
in  Scotland,  as  to  the  examiners,  examinations  and  parties  exam- 
ined in  England. 
X.  Every  such  person  who  shall  have  been  examined  by  the 
persons  appointed  as  aforesaid,  and  shall  have  obtained  a  certifi- 
cate of  qualification  from  them,  shall  be  entitled  to  be  registered  by 
the  registrar  according  to  the  provisions  of  this  Act,  upon  the  pay- 
ment of  such  fee  or  fees  as  shall  be  fixed  by  the  by-laws;  and 
every  such  person  duly  registered  as  a  Pharmaceutical  Chemist 
shall  be  eligible  to  be  elected  as  a  Member  of  the  said  Society  $ 
