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The  President  now  read  his  annual  address,  as  follows  : — 
President's  Annual  Report  to  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association. 
Associates, — On  retiring  from  this  honorable  position,  it  is  iny  privilege 
to  thank  you  for  the  kindness  with  which  you  have  sustained  me  as  your 
presiding  officer. 
I  have  tried  to  fulfil  the  promise  made  to  you  on  assuming  its  responsi- 
bilities that  you  should  have  my  best  efforts  ;  and  the  consideration  and 
support  I  have  received  from  each  officer  and  member,  is  to  me  an  assurance 
that  my  successors  will  find  in  this  Association  every  attention  and  support 
in  an  honest  and  impartial  administration  of  its  affairs. 
It  gives  me  pleasure  to  congratulate  you  upon  the  very  prosperous 
condition  in  which  we  commence  the  ninth  year  of  our  labors.  Our 
rapidly  increasing  numbers,  and  the  amount,  variety  and  quality  of  talent 
now  at  our  disposal  and  continually  augmenting,  gives  promise  of  a 
bright  and  hopeful  future  ;  of  a  development  commenced  that  shall  place 
pharmacy  with  the  foremost  in  the  sanitary  reforms  of  the  day ;  performing 
an  active  part  in  removing  that  stigma  from  medicine  produced  by 
systematic  overdosing, — of  which  Homcepathy  and  the  prevailing  medical 
infidelity  is  a  counterpoise,  and  which,  like  the  services  of  counter-irritants, 
having  performed  their  uses,  should  be  abandoned. 
Your  order,  passed  at  our  last  meeting,  directing  me  to  forward  your 
petition  to  the  Secretary  of  the  Treasury  of  the  United  States,  for  the 
removal  of  restrictions  in  publishing  the  importation  of  drugs,  was 
promptly  followed.    In  reply  I  received  the  following  answer : — 
Treasury  Department,  | 
October  17,  1859.  j 
Sir, — In  reply  to  your  communication  of  the  1st  instant,  I  have  to  say, 
that  the  Collector  of  Customs  at  New  York  has  this  day  been  authorized 
to  continue  the  publication  of  a  schedule  of  the  importation  of  drugs  and 
chemicals  into  New  York — the  names  of  importers  to  be  omitted. 
I  am  very  respectfully,  Howell  Cobb, 
Secretary  of  the  Treasury. 
To  Samuel  M.  Colcord,  Esq., 
President  American  Pharmaceutical  Association. 
The  Treasurer,  will  lay  before  you  his  report  of  the  financial 
condition  of  the  Association.  For  the  past  two  years  the  receipts  have 
not  been  sufficient  to  publish  the  Proceedings,  and  the  printers  have 
been  obliged  to  wait  until  collections  were  made  on  the  dues  of  the 
succeeding  year,  or  the  Treasurer  has  been  obliged  to  borrow  money  to 
pay  the  bills.  Owing  principally  to  the  economical  management  of  the 
Executive  Committee  for  the  past  year,  the  Treasurer  is  enabled  to  report 
the  Association  not  now  in  debt. 
