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said commissioners of pharmacy to register, without examination, as registered 

 pharmacists all pharmacists and druggists who are engaged in business in the Dis- 

 trict of Columbia at the passage of this act as owners or principals of stores or 

 pharmacies for selling at retail, compounding, or dispensing drugs, medicines, or 

 chemicals for medicinal use, or for compounding and dispensing physicians' pre- 

 scriptions, and all assistant pharmacists, twenty-one years of age, engaged in said 

 stores or pharmacies in the District of Columbia at the passage of this act, and 

 who have been engaged as such in some store or pharmacy where physicians' pre- 

 scriptions were compounded and dispensed for not less than five years prior to the 

 passage of this act: Provided, however, That in case of failure or neglect on the 

 part of any such person or persons to present themselves for registration within 

 sixty days after said public notice, they shall undergo an examination such as is 

 provided for in section five of this act. 



SEC. 5. That the siad commissioners of pharmacy shall, upon application and at 

 such time and place as they may determine, examine each and every person who 

 shall desire to conduct the business of selling at retail, compounding, or dispensing 

 drugs, medicines, or chemicals for medicinal use, or compounding and dispensing 

 physicians' prescriptions within the District of Columbia as pharmacists; and if a 

 majority of said commissioners shall be satisfied that said person is competent and 

 fully qualified to conduct said business of compounding or dispensiug drugs, medi- 

 cines, or chemicals for medicinal use, or to compound and dispense physicians' pre- 

 scriptions, they shall enter the name of such person as a registered pharmacist in 

 the book provided for in section four of this act. 



SEC. 6. That no person shall be entitled to an examination by said commissioners 

 of pharmacy for registration as pharmacist unless he presents satisfactory evidence 

 of being twenty-one years of age and having served not less than four years in a 

 store or pharmacy where physicians' prescriptions were compounded and dispensed, 

 or is a graduate of some respectable medical college or university. 



SEC. 7. That all graduates in pharmacy having a diploma from an incorporated 

 college or school of pharmacy that requires a practical experience in pharmacy of 

 not less than four years before granting a diploma, shall be entitled to have their 

 names registered as pharmacists by said commissioners of pharmacy. 



SEC. 8. That the commissioners of pharmacy shall be entitled to demand and 

 receive from each person whom they register as pharmacists, without examination, 

 the sum of three dollars, and from each person whom they examine the sum of ten 

 dollars. And in case the examination of said person should prove defective and 

 unsatisfactory, and his name not be registered, he shall be permitted to present 

 himself for reex animation within any period not exceeding twelve months next 

 thereafter, and no charge shall be made for such reexamination. The money 

 received under the provisions of this section shall be applied to payment of such 

 expenses as the commissioners may incur in executing the provisions of this act. 



SEC. 9. Every registered pharmacist shall be held responsible for the quality of 

 all drugs, chemicals, and medicines he may sell or dispense, with the exception of 

 those sold in the original packages of the manufacturer, and also*those known as 

 11 patent medicines;" and should he knowingly, intentionally, and fraudulently 

 adulterate, or cause to be adulterated, such drugs, chemicals, or medical prepara- 

 tions, he shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, be 

 liable to a penalty not exceeding one hundred dollars, and, in addition thereto, his 

 name shall be stricken from the register. 



SEC. 10. It shall be unlawful for any person, from and after the passage of this 

 act, to retail any poisons enumerated in schedules A and B, as follows, to wit: 



SCHEDULE A. 



Arsenic and its preparations, corrosive sublimate, white precipitate, red precipi- 

 tate, biniodide of mercury, cyanide of potassium, hydrocyanic acid, strychnia, and 



