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CONNECTICUT. 



PHARMACY ACT. 



[Title LV, General Statutes, 1888. Chapter CLXXXVUI.J 

 AN ACT relating to medicines and poisons. 



Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened: 



SECTION 3118. There shall be three commissioners of pharmacy, consisting of one 

 reputable physician and two pharmacists, to be selected by the governor from six 

 persons to be annually nominated to him by the Connecticut Pharmaceutical Asso- 

 ciation. 



SEC. 3119. The governor shall, on or before the first day of June in the year 

 eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, and annually thereafter, appoint one such com- 

 missioner, who shall hold office for three years from the first day of June in the year 

 of his appointment; and vacancies may be filled by the governor for the uuexpired 

 portion of the term. 



SEC. 3120. Said commissioners shall keep a record of their proceedings, and may 

 give certified copies thereof, which shall be legal evidence. 



SEC. 3121. No person shall conduct or keep a shop, store, or place of any kind 

 for retailing drugs, medicines, poisons, or such chemicals as are used in compound- 

 ing medicines, or compound or dispense prescriptions of a physician, or vend medi- 

 cines or poisons, unless he shall have been licensed therefor, as hereinafter pro- 

 vided, or shall be under the supervision of a licensed pharmacist. 



SEC. 3122. The comptroller shall designate a room in the capitol for the meeting 

 of said commissioners, which shall be held in each year on the first Tuesdays of 

 March, April, June, September, and December, and at such other times and places 

 as they may deem necessary, to determine the qualifications of applicants forlicen.se 

 as pharmacists, and said commissioners shall license, by a certificate signed by 

 them, or by a majority of them, such persons as shall produce satisfactory evidence 

 to them of their qualifications and attainments, either by diploma granted to the 

 applicant by some reputable college of pharmacy, or by the certificate of some 

 reputable pharmacist that the applicant has, for not less than three years prior to 

 his application, received instruction in pharmacy and possesses the necessary quali- 

 fications of a pharmacist, or by other satisfactory evidence. 



SEC. 3123. All applicants for a license, other than a renewal of a license previously 

 granted by said commissioners, shall be personally examined by said commissioners: 

 Provided, however, That such examinations may be omitted in the cases of appli- 

 cants who exhibit to said commissioners a diploma granted by some reputable col- 

 lege of pharmacy, or a license in force within one year prior to the date of such 

 application, granted by the board of commissioners of pharmacy of another State, 

 if such license shall be deemed sufficient evidence of qualifications by the commis- 

 sioners of pharmacy of this State. Licenses shall specify the name of the person 

 licensed, the date when granted, the city or town in which he shall conduct his busi- 

 ness; and if in a city, the street and number of his place of business; and his license 

 shall be conspicuously exhibited in his place of business, and shall remain in force 

 until the first day of April next after said date, unless granted at a meeting of said 

 commissioners on the first Tuesday of March, in which case such license shall termi- 

 nate on the thirty-first day of March of the succeeding year, or a iless such person 

 shall remove his place of business without notice to the commissioners ; and a license 

 may be renewed upon the application of the person licensed, upon the terms here- 

 inafter provided. 



SEC. 3124. Every person conducting the business of pharmacy shall, on or before 

 the first Tuesday of March annually, apply to said commissioners for said license, 

 or for a renewal thereof, and establish his right thereto by such evidence as shall be 

 satisfactory to them ; and they shall adopt forms for application for license, and 



