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MINUTES  OF  THE  COLLEGE. 
Whereas,  by  the  terms  of  the  law  to  provide  internal  revenue,  and  to 
pay  the  interest  on  the  public  debt,  a  specific  stamp  tax  is  laid  on  all 
secret  or  proprietary  medicines,  and  an  exception  made  in  favor  of  prep- 
arations of  which  the  "  full  and  proper  formula  is  published  in  any  Phar- 
maceutical Journal  now  issued  by  any  incorporated  College  of  Pharmacy;" 
and 
Whereas,  attempts  will  probably  be  made  to  evade  this  tax  by  the  pub- 
lication of  formula  of  no  public  interest,  through  the  American  Journal 
of  Pharmacy,  which  was  established  with  an  exclusive  view  to  the  ad- 
vancement of  Pharmaceutical  knowledge,  and  discouragement  of  quack- 
ery and  empyricism;  therefore 
Resolved,  That  the  Editor  and  Committee  of  Publication  be  and  are 
hereby  instructed  to  decline  the  insertion  in  the  Journal  of  any  empyrical 
or  other  formula  not  adapted  to  increase  pharmaceutical  knowledge,  or 
to  promote  the  general  interests  of  the  profession,  and  that  we  will  dis- 
courage any  evasion  of  the  law  by  those  to  whom  it  was  designed  to  apply. 
Charles  Bullock  proposed  that  a  Committee  be  appointed  to  confer  with 
Commissioner  Boutwell,  with  reference  to  various  points  in  the  law  re- 
quiring some  explanation,  and  that  a  copy  of  the  foregoing  resolution  be 
enclosed  to  him,  and  that  the  Committee  have  power  to  use  the  seal  of  the 
College,  and  report  to  the  Board  of  Trustees  at  its  next  meeting.  Charles 
Bullock,  Alfred  B.  Taylor,  and  William  Procter,  Jr.,  were  appointed  on 
that  Committee.  On  motion,  Peter  Williamson  was  also  added  to  this 
Committee  as  Chairman. 
The  semi-annual  election  of  Trustees,  &c,  was  now  ordered,  John  C. 
Savery,  and  Samuel  S.  Bunting  acting  as  tellers,  who  reported  the  fol- 
lowing as  elected : 
Trustees. 
Wilson  H.  Pile,  Evan  T.Ellis, 
Charles  Bullock,  William  J.  Jenks, 
Alfred  B.  Taylor,  George  J.  Scattergood, 
William  Evans,  Jr.  William  C.  Bakes. 
Committee  on  Deceased  Members. 
Edward  Parrish.  William  Procter,  Jr., 
Charles  Bullock. 
Committee  on  Herbarium. 
George  J.  Scattergood,  William  R.  Warner, 
Thomas  P.  James. 
On  motion,  the  College  adjourned. 
William  C.  Bakes,  Secretary  pro  tern. 
