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DELAWARE. 



VOLUME 18, CHAPTER 36. 



AN ACT to regulate the practice of pharmacy in the State of Delaware, and for other purposes. 



Whereas the ability of the physicians to overcome disease depends largely upon 

 the obtaining of reliable medicines, intelligently arid skillfully prepared; and 



Whereas, from time to time, unskilled and incompetent persons engage in the com- 

 pounding and sale of drugs, medicines, and chemicals to the endangering of the 

 health and lives of the public. 



Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware in 

 General Assembly met: 



SECTION 1. That from and after the passage of this act it shall be unlawful for 

 any person to open, conduct, or manage within the corporate limits of any town in 

 this State any pharmacy, drug store, or other place for the retailing, compounding, 

 or dispensing of drugs, medicines, or poisons, unless such person shall be registered 

 as a pharmacist under the provisions of this act. Nor shall the sale of patent, 

 quack, or proprietary articles be lawful, except in regular licensed stores under a 

 penalty of ten dollars for each and every offense. 



SEC. 2. In order to become registered as a proprietor or manager of a pharmacy 

 the applicant must be a graduate of a college of pharmacy or medicine of good stand- 

 ing. Otherwise he shall have had three years' continuous practical experience in 

 the retail drug business, and shall submit to, and satisfactorily pass, an examination 

 before the State board of pharmacy. 



SEC. 3. No person who shall conduct or manage any pharmacy, drug store, or 

 other place for the retailing, compounding, or dispensing of drugs, medicines, or 

 poisons for medical use shall permit or suffer at any time any clerk or other employe" 

 to be left in charge of same unless said person be a registered assistant, with one 

 year's continuous practical experience or an examination certificate from the board 

 of pharmacy. Nor shall any proprietor or manager of any pharmacy permit any 

 clerk or other person who has had less than one year's practical experience in the 

 retail drug business to compound or dispense any physician's prescriptions, except 

 under the immediate directions of the proprietor or manager. Any person who 

 shall not comply with the provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of amis- 

 demeanor; and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not less than twenty dollars 

 nor more than fifty dollars for each day whereon such violation occurs or is con- 

 tinued, one-half of fine imposed to go to the State board of pharmacy and the bal- 

 ance to the county in which such violation qpcurs. 



SEC. 4. Every dispenser of drugs shall keep a record of all sales of strychnia, 

 arsenic, and corrosive sublimate, said record to be open to proper legal inspection. 

 Any person failing to comply with the provisions of this section shall be deemed 

 guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined five dollars 

 for each and every offense. 



SEC. 5. The Pharmaceutical Society of Delaware shall on or before^the first day of 

 June, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, recommend to the governor the names of 

 at least six graduates of a college of pharmacy of good standing and four graduates 

 of medicine, and it shall be the duty of the governor on or before the day and year 

 aforesaid to appoint, in writing, three of the former and two of the latter to consti- 

 tute the State board of pharmacy. The said board shall have authority to act from 

 and after the first day of July aforesaid. The members so appointed shall hold their 

 offices for five years: Provided, That the term of office for the first five appointed 

 shall be so arranged that the time of one shall expire on the first day of July of 

 each year, and the vacancies so created, as well as all vacancies occurring, shall, 

 with or without recommendation aforesaid, be filled by appointment by the gov- 

 ernor of a person or persons possessing the like qualifications as his or their prede- 

 cessors in office. The person or persons so appointed to hold office during the 



