LAW IN REFERENCE TO ADULTERATED DRUGS. 299 
in the Custom House and returns prepared therefrom must 
be rendered quarterly to the Department. 
Before the special Examiners appointed under this act 
can enter on the discharge of their duties, the following 
oath or affirmation, to be administered by the Collector, 
must be taken and subscribed by them, vi/: 
I, A. B., having been appointed by the Secretary of the 
Treasury special Examiner of Drugs, Medicines, Chemicals, 
&c., within and for the port and district of , do 
solemnly, sincerely, and truly swear (or affirm) that I will 
diligently and faithfully perform the duties of said office as 
prescribed by the act to prevent the importation of adul- 
terated and spurious drugs and medicines, approved 26th 
June, 1848, and will use my best endeavors to prevent and 
detect frauds upon the revenue of the United States. I 
further swear (or affirm) that I will support the Constitution 
of the United States. 
Signed, A. B. 
Sworn (or affirmed) before me this day o^ , 
A. D., 184 . C. D., Collector. 
These oaths or affirmations must be forwarded for file 
in the department. R. J. Walker, 
Secretary of the Treasury, 
Adulteration of Medicines. 
At a special meeting of the College of Pharmacy of the 
City of New York, held on Thursday evening, July 6lh 
1848, the following Preamble and Resolutions were unani- 
mously adopted : 
Whereas : upon the application of the College of Phar- 
macy of the City of New York to the Congress of the 
United States at its present session, seconded with one accord 
by the Medical and Pharmaceutical Institutions throughout 
