Query whether the better policy would not have been, to have subjected _all_ persons to examination; a lad may be very stupid and dangerously ignorant even after five years practice in a remote village. Footnote 129: These five should also have had the power of searching drugs, &c. under certain restriction, as calling to their assistance one member at least of the College of Physicians, or any Licentiate or regular Graduate being a justice of the peace. It is in the country that the worst drugs, &c. are most likely to be found. Footnote 130: An appeal to the President and Censors of the College of Physicians might have been a salutary check on this power of rejection. Footnote 131: We do not understand the policy of the exemption: it is surely as necessary to defend the public from unwholesome drugs, &c. whether sold by wholesale or retail, whether bought of a chemist or an apothecary. The censors of the college of physicians may search chemists and druggists wares in London, but as they have no power in the country, this point requires future consideration; for as prescriptions are now very generally prepared by persons who are nominally chemists, though in fact they exercise the ancient business of apothecaries, the public are as deeply interested in the goodness of the drugs kept by the one as by the other. Footnote 132: “Memoirs historical and illustrative of the botanic garden at Chelsea, belonging to the Society of Apothecaries of London.”—London, 1820. This memoir was printed at the expense of the society, for distribution amongst its members. Footnote 133: The most important covenants contained in this conveyance, are the following, viz.