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county treasury. The expenses of the 

 State Board are defrayed out of the fees, 

 and the moiety of such penalties. 



In the matter of Ward 10 Misc Rep. 

 424, Judge Herrick, at Albany, held that 

 the act of 1893 was evidently intended to 

 take the place of all statutes theretofore 

 passed. Chas. W. Ward had failed to 

 appl}- within the 90 days provided for in 

 the act of 1893, and sought to compel the 

 State Board to license him notwithstand- 

 ing that fact. Judge Herrick denied his 

 motion, and held that no period is pre- 

 scribed within which a person must ap- 

 ply for a license who has had lour years' 

 experience in the practice ot pharmacy, 

 previous to January 1, 1893. But as to 

 those qualified under the act of 1884, who 

 failed to make application within 90 days 

 after the passage of the act of 1893, there 

 is no provision in the statute for obtain- 

 ing a license except by passing an exam- 

 ination. But we must take into con- 

 sideration the amendments passed by the 

 Legislature of 1895. By the act which 

 went into effect on June 4, 1895, any 

 person who has had four years' experi- 

 ence in the practice of pharmacy, or 

 holds a certificate of registration as a 

 pharmacist, is entitled to a license as 

 such, and two years' of experience will 

 entitle him to be an assistant pharmacist, 

 if otherwise qualified. The fees are made 

 $10 for a license as a pharmacist from the 

 State Board, five dollars for a license or 

 certificate of registration after examina^ 

 tion by other boards, and three dollars 

 for a license as an assistant. The license 

 from the State Board seems indispensable. 

 I also understand that the last Legisla- 

 ture passed an act introduced by Senator 

 Donaldson, requiring every licensee of the 

 State Board of Pharmacy who desires to 

 continue the practice of his profession to 

 pay, annually, within 30 days from Nov. 

 1, a fee of one dollar, for which he shall 



receive a renewal to be displayed with 

 the license. 



The regulations of the local boards are 

 readily ascertained, and they strive with 

 the State Board to maintain a high de- 

 gree of excellence as to the requisites of 

 admission to practice in pharmacy. Those 

 applicable to this city are found in the 

 Consolidation Act. It cannot be denied 

 that, as a consequence, the practice of 

 pharmacy in our city has been placed 

 upon a higher plane than it ever occupied 

 in the past. The result is that to day, 

 the pharmacists of our city are as a body, 

 well educated, skilled and courteous gen- 

 tlemen, devoted to their profession and 

 alive to its importance as the handmaid 

 of medicine, and the fruitful source of 

 weal or woe in the community. The 

 members of the profession, then, equally 

 with laymen, are interested in proper 

 legislative supervision of their calling, 

 and, in fact, to them, rather than to 

 others, is due the credit of existing legis- 

 lation. They are as anxious as other 

 citizens to surround the practice of 

 pharmacy with all proper and effective 

 safeguards for the protection of the pub- 

 lic and the conservation of professional 

 interests. It is, however, a matter of re- 

 gret that legislation has not gone far 

 enough to provide the means for keeping 

 out of the profession those who are in the 

 trade with their pelf as their, only capi- 

 tal, and who often bring reproach upon 

 the calling while contributing nothing 

 towards its elevation. 



The constitutionality of laws regulat- 

 ing the practice of pharmacy has been 

 affirmed by the Supreme Court of the U. 

 S. Judge Field in Dent vs. West Virginia, 

 129, U. S. 114, declared that "due con- 

 sideration for the protection of society 

 may well induce the State to exclude 

 from practice those who have not such a 



