CHARTER. 
AN  ACT  TO  INCORPORATE  THE  PHILADELPHIA 
COLLEGE  OF  PHARMACY. 
Whereas,  to  dispense  and  prepare  drugs  and  medicines  for 
the  use  of  the  sick  requires  knowledge  and  skill  of  a  peculiar 
kind,  an  ignorance  of  which  opens  the  door  to  numerous  abuses 
and  evils,  and  is  pregnant  w^ith  serious  consequences  to  health 
and  life;  and  it  being  the  duty  of  every  good  government  to 
protect,  as  far  as  in  it  lies,  its  citizens  from  those  ills  and  dan- 
gers to  which  they  become  exposed  in  the  multiplied  relations  of 
society,  by  promoting  and  encouraging  wholesome  institutions 
and  regulations,  calculated  to  advance  the  well-being,  security 
and  interests  of  the  community ;  and  it  being  represented  to  the 
Legislature  that  an  institution  has  been  established  in  the  city 
of  Philadelphia  called  "  The  Philadelphia  College  of  Apothe- 
caries," for  the  purpose  of  cultivating,  improving,  and  making 
known  a  knowledge  of  Pharmacy,  its  collateral  branches  of 
science,  and  the  best  modes  of  preparing  medicines  and  their 
compounds,  and  of  giving  instruction  in  the  same  by  public  lec- 
tures : 
Now,  that  the  purpose  thereof  may  be  the  better  carried  into 
effect : 
Sect.  1.  Be  it  enacted,  by  the  Senate  and  House  of  Repre- 
sentatives of  the  Commonwealth  of  Pennsylvania,  in  general  as- 
sembly met,  and  it  is  hereby  enacted  by  authority  of  the  same, 
That  all  such  persons  as  now  are  members  of  the  Philadelphia 
College  of  Apothecaries,  or  may  hereafter  become  members  of 
the  same,  be,  and  they  are  hereby  made  and  constituted  a  cor- 
poration and  body  politic,  in  law  and  in  fact,  to  have  continuance 
forever,  by  the  name,  style  and  title  of  the  Philadelphia  Col- 
