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who had four years' experience in the 

 practice of pharmacy, previous to Janu- 

 ary 1, 1893, or holds a certificate of 

 registration as a pharmacist by examina- 

 tion from any board of pharmacy legally 

 created under the laws of this State, is 

 entitled to become a pharmacist. Any 

 person who has had two years' experi- 

 ence in the practice of pharmacy is en- 

 titled to license as an assistant pharma- 

 cist, each upon passing the requis- 

 ite examinations. Any person who on 

 May 24, 1884, was entitled to a license, 

 but failed within 90 days to apply to the 

 State board for a license, might, within 

 go days after the passage of that act, on 

 eight days' notice to the Secretary of the 

 Board, have applied to the Supreme Court 

 for an order directing the Board to issue 

 such license, upon proof of good cause 

 for such neglect. No person is entitled 

 to a license as a pharmacist or assistant, 

 unless he furnishes proof by his own affi- 

 davit or otherwise, in addition to all the 

 other requirements of the law, that he is 

 a resident of the city, county or district 

 for which the Board to which he applies 

 is created, or, if a non-resident, that he 

 intends to practice therein, and that he 

 has not applied for a license to, or been 

 examined by, any other Board of Phar- 

 macy of the State, and has not been refus- 

 ed a license within six months preceding. 

 By that statute a fee of five dollars was 

 to be paid to the State Board tor a phar- 

 macist's license, and three dollars for 

 that of an assistant pharmacist. The 

 license must be conspicuously posted in 

 the licensee's place of business. No 

 license shall be revoked except for just 

 and sufficient cause, and no one may 

 hereafter practice as a pharmacist unless 

 a license has been granted by the State 

 Board. The statute does not apply to 

 practitioners of medicine who are not the 

 proprietors of stores, and does not prevent 

 them from supplying patients. Nor does 



it apply to wholesale dealers in medicines 

 or poisons, nor to the sale of insect poi- 

 sons, or substances for use in the arts, or 

 to the manufacture or sale of proprietary 

 medicines, or to the sale of the usual 

 domestic remedies by retail dealers in 

 rural districts. These remedies are de- 

 fined in the act as those, a knowledge of 

 the properties of which and dose, has 

 been acquired from common use, and in- 

 cludes only such remedies as may be safely 

 employed without the advice of a physi- 

 cian. A large number of them are named 

 in the act. But the term does not include 

 poisons requiring knowledge and phar- 

 maceutical skill to safely dispense, unless 

 they are sold in original packages or 

 such as bear the label of a licensed phar- 

 macist. This act itself also furnishes us 

 with a definition of the term "practice of 

 pharmacy" as meaning the compound- 

 ing of prescriptions, or of any U. S. phar- 

 macopoeial preparation or of any drug or 

 poison, to be used as a medicine, or to 

 the retailing of any drug or poison 

 except as in the act provided for. 

 The law does not prohibit the employ- 

 ment of apDrentices for the purpose of 

 being instructed in the practice of phar- 

 macy, but they are not permitted to dis- 

 pense prescriptions or sell or furnish 

 medicines or poisons, except in the pres- 

 ence and under the supervision of a 

 licensed pharmacist. The article does not 

 apply to the counties of New York, Kings 

 and Erie, but a license duly issued by 

 any legal board of pharmacy entitles the 

 holder to a license or certificate of regis- 

 tration from any other Board upon com- 

 plying with the formal requirements of 

 the law. Any person violating any pro- 

 vision of the article forfeits $50 for every 

 such violation to the county to be sued 

 for and recovered in the name of the 

 county by the State Board. It retains the 

 cost and expenses out of all penalties, 

 and one-half of the penalty goes to the 



