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rules and regulations prescribing the manner in which the evidence in support of 

 such application shall be presented to them; and they shall furnish such forms and 

 such rules and regulations to any person upon his request. 



SEC. 3125. Each applicant shall pay to said commissioners three dollars for his 

 license and two dollars for each renewal thereof; and whenever a personal exami- 

 nation shall be made as provided in the preceding section, a fee of rive dollars; but 

 if upon such examination a license shall be refused, said fee shall be refunded to 

 said applicant; but if any such applicant shall make a new application, and a license 

 shall be again refused, said fee shall not in that case be refunded. And said com- 

 missioners shall account semiannually, on the first Tuesdays of December and June, 

 with the treasurer of the State, for the sums received by them for licenses, and 

 shall be paid by the State at the time of such accounting, the money necessarily 

 expended by them for stationery and printing, and compensation for their services 

 at the rate of three hundred dollars per annum to each commissioner: Provided, That 

 if the amounts received by said commissioners for said licenses shall not be sufficient 

 to pay them said sums for services in full, such amounts shall be apportioned pro rata 

 among said commissioners, and their charges for expenses for stationery and printing, 

 and for services, shall be audited and approved by the comptroller in the proportion 

 aforesaid, who shall draw his order upon the treasury therefor. 



SEC. 3126. Nothing contained in the preceding sections of this chapter shall be 

 construed to prevent a practicing physician from compounding his own prescrip- 

 tions, or to prevent the sale of proprietary medicines, or of any drugs, medicines, 

 or poisons, at wholesale to licensed pharmacists, or for use in manufactures or the 

 arts, or to prevent any person from becoming a partner in or the proprietor of a 

 pharmacy conducted by a licensed pharmacist, or any keeper of a country store 

 from keeping for sale and selling such domestic remedies as are usually kept and 

 sold in such stores, but such keeper shall not compound medicines, and medicinal 

 preparations so kept and recognized by the United States Dispensatory shall be 

 compounded by a licensed pharmacist and marked by his label. 



SEC. 3127. Any person who shall willfully violate any of the provisions of the pre- 

 ceding sections of this chapter shall forfeit five dollars for each day that he shall 

 continue such violation, one-half to him who shall prosecute to effect and one-half 

 to the town in which the offense was committed. 



SEC. 3128. Said commissioners shall have power to examine into all cases of 

 alleged abuse, fraud, and incompetence; cause the prosecution of all persons not 

 complying with the provisions of this chapter, and suspend and revoke the registra- 

 tion of any person legally convicted of violating the same. 



SEC. 3129. Every person who shall knowingly adulterate or cause any foreign or 

 inert substance to be mixed with any drug or medicinal substance or preparation 

 recognized by any pharmacopeia, or employed in medicinal or medical practice, so 

 as to weaken or destroy its medicinal effect, or shall sell such drug, compound, or 

 preparation knowing it to be so adulterated or mixed, shall be fined not less than 

 ten nor more than one hundred dollars, and upon conviction all such adulterated or 

 mixed articles in his possession may be seized upou a warrant issued by the court in 

 which such conviction is had, and destroyed by the officer by whom such seizure 

 shall be made. 



SEC. 3130. Every person who shall sell arsenic, strychnine, corrosive sublimate, 

 prussic acid, cyanide of potassium shall affix to the package sold by him a label 

 plainly marked with his name, date of sale, aud the word u poison," and shall enter 

 qn a book kept by him for that purpose the name of the purchaser, date of sale, and 

 the quantity sold; which book shall be kept open for .public inspection, carefully 

 preserved ; and when he shall close his business or remove from the town in which 

 such business Is carried on, or when said book shall be filled with such entries, it 

 shall be deposited by him in the office of the town clerk of the town in which he 

 may conduct his business; and any person who shall violate the preceding pro- 



