TEXAS. 



Full authority to enforce the drug law is given to the State health 

 officer, who is to direct the work of the public analysts, but as no 

 appropriation has ever been made to carry out the provisions of the 

 law it has never been enforced. 



REGISTERED PHARMACISTS. 



455. Conduct of pharmacy. It shall he unlawful for any person, unless a 

 qualified pharmacist within the meaning of this law to open or conduct any 

 pharmacy or store for compounding medicines, or for anyone not a qualified 

 pharmacist to prepare physicians' prescriptions or compound medicines, except 

 under the supervision of a qualified pharmacist as hereinafter provided. 



464. Proprietors must be rcyiKtcrcrt or o///>/o// a rci/ixlcrcd clerk. Proprietors 

 who are actually engaged in the preparation of physicians' prescriptions and 

 compounding and vending medicine in the state of Texas at the passage of this 

 law shall he exempt from examination ; also assistants who are likewise en- 

 gaged and have been so engaged for three years, and are twenty-one years old; 

 provided he, she, or they will register as specified in this law at the first meeting 

 of the board of pharmacy ; provided that the provisions of this bill shall not 

 prevent any person from engaging in the business herein described as proprie- 

 tors or owners thereof, provided such proprietor or owner shall have employed 

 in his business some qualified pharmacist to fill prescriptions and compound 

 drugs. 



466. Penalty. Any person not a qualified pharmacist, but who continues to 

 compound prescriptions, or retail medicines without complying with this law, 

 shall upon the first conviction be sentenced to pay a fine of not less than fifty 

 nor more than one hundred dollars, and upon the second and every subsequent 

 conviction shall be sentenced to a fine of not less than one hundred dollars nor 

 more than two hundred dollars. 



470. Small towns excepted from provisions of the law. This law shall not 

 apply to towns and cities containing less than one thousand inhabitants. Towns 

 and cities that arrive at one or more thousand inhabitants on and after the 

 passage of this law shall come within its provisions. The manner of ascer- 

 taining the census shall be the last official one, whether it be federal, state, 

 town, or city. 



471. Physicians excepted. Nothing in this law shall be construed to apply to 

 any practitioner of medicine who does not keep open shop for compounding, dis- 

 pensing, and selling medicines, nor so construed as to prevent any person or 

 persons from investing their means in a drug store or stores, provided they keep 

 employed qualified pharmacists for the direct supervision of vending and com- 

 pounding medicines. 



Wilson's Criminal Statutes, 1890, p. 171 et seq. (Penal Code). 



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