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CHARTER  AND  LAWS  OF  THE  COLLEGE. 
ness  intercourse  with  him,  T  have  yet  to  discover  the  fust  transaction  that 
ought  to  cause  the  slightest  tinge  of  shame. 
Mr.  SchafTer's  manners  were  polite,  conciliating,  and  winning,  without  af- 
fectation. He  was  equally  prompt,  decided  and  energetic,  without  the  sha- 
dow of  bluntness.  Among  his  acquaintance  he  wras  esteemed  a  gentleman 
in  its  largest  sense.  With  these  qualifications  and  excellent  character  he 
was  prosperous  in  business;  the  success  of  competitors  excited  in  him  no- 
envy,  his  motto  was  'live  and  let  live/  He  was  eminently  generous,  and 
of  him  it  may  be  said  with  truth,  'large  was  his  bounty,  and  his  soul  sin« 
cere.7  v 
This  estimable  man  was  called  away  from  the  scene  of  his  active  pursuits 
in  the  prime  of  life.  He  died  in  the  52d  year  of  his  age,  leaving  to  sur- 
viving relatives  and  friends  the  rich  legacy  of  a  high  and  honorable 
example,  with  the  consoling  belief  that  he  has  exchanged  mortality  for  an 
immortality  of  bliss. 
CHARTER  AND  LAWS 
or  THE 
^IrilohWfijiifl  Collfgt  of  ^IjEtttiaft}- 
An  Act  to  Incorporate  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy. 
Whereas,  to  dispense  and  prepare  drugs  and  medicines  for  the  use  o5 
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  with 
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  dangers  to  which  they  become  exposed  in  the  multiplied  relations  of 
society,  by  promoting  and  encouraging  wholesome  institutions  and  regula- 
tions, 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  Apothecaries,"  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  lectures : 
Now,  that  the  purposes  thereof  may  be  the  better  carried  into  effect: 
Sect.  1.  Be  it  enacted,  by  the  Senate  and  House  of  Eepresentatives  of 
the  Commonwealth  of  Pennsylvania,  in  general  assembly  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  corporation  and  body  politic,  in  law  and  in  fact,  to  have  continuance  for- 
ever, by  the  name,  style,  and  title  of  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Phar- 
macy, with  power  to  make  one  public  and  common.  seal?,and  also  one  private? 
