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remainder of the term for which his or their predecessor or predecessors were 

 appointed. Before entering upon the discharge of their official duties the members 

 of said board shall be duly sworn or affirmed for the faithful and impartial perform- 

 ance of their duties as such members. Any three members shall constitute a quorum 

 for the transaction of business. The said board shall meet at least once in every three 

 mouths, and it shall be its duty to examine into the qualifications of all applicants 

 and register them accordingly, keeping correct record of all official transactions, 

 and to report annually to the governor prior to the first day of July of each year. 



SEC. 6. The members of said board shall receive no compensation, but may pay 

 the expenses incurred by them in the discharge of official duty out of any money 

 coming to said board under the provisions of this act. The said board before issu- 

 ing a certificate of registration to any pharmacist or assistant shall, if the appli- 

 cant be entitled to be registered without the passage of an examination, receive 

 from such applicant the sum of one dollar; but if the applicant be required, under 

 the provisions of this act, to pass an examination he shall pay to said board the sum 

 of five dollars. 



SEC. 7. Any person not being a registered pharmacist, or having in his employ one 

 who is not registered according to the meaning of this act, who shall, thirty days 

 after this act takes effect, keep a pharmacy or store for compounding or retailing 

 drugs or medicines, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction 

 thereof shall be fined the sum of fifty dollars. 



SEC. 8. Any person who shall violate any of the provisions of this act shall be 

 deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof in the court of gen- 

 eral sessions of the peace and jail delivery shall be fined, according to the amount 

 specified after the section violated, for each day whereon such violation occurs or is 

 continued. One-half of the fine imposed to go to the State board of pharmacy and 

 the balance to the county in which such violation occurs. 



SEC. 9. Nothing in this act contained shall be taken to render unlawful the com- 

 pounding by any physician of prescriptions to be used by him in his own practice. 



SEC. 10. That an act entitled "An act to regulate the practice of pharmacy in 

 the State of Delaware," passed at Dover, April 17, 1883, be and the same is hereby 

 repealed: Provided, however. That nothing in this act contained shall prevent the 

 registration of those pharmacists now already engaged in the drug business in towns 

 not affected by repealed act. Nor shall in any manner affect the right of any person to 

 whom a certificate of registration has heretofore been duly issued under said repealed 

 act: And provided further, That the State board of pharmacy, organized under the 

 repealed act, shall continue to exist in^the same manner and with the same power as 

 shall be possessed by board provided by this act until July first, eighteen hundred 

 and eighty-seven, any vacancy or vacancies now existing, or hereafter occurring, 

 during existence of old board shall be filled by appointment by the governor of a 

 person possessing like qualifications of his predecessor, who shall also be qualified 

 by oath; also that all money, records, and effects belonging to old board shall be 

 turned over to their successors. 



SEC. 11. Provided, also, That nothing in this act shall prohibit the sale of stand- 

 ard proprietary medicines by general stores. 



Passed at Dover, April 14, 1887. 



VOLUME xix, CHAPTER 123. 



AN ACT to amend chapter 36, volume 18, Laws of Delaware, entitled "An act to regulate the prac- 

 tice of pharmacy in the State of Delaware, and for other purposes," and to further amend chapter 

 549, volume 18, Laws of Delaware, entitled "An act to amend certain portions of the laws govern- 

 ing the practice of pharmacy in the State of Delaware." 



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

 General Assembly met : 



SECTION 1. Amend section 3, chapter 36, volume 18, Laws of Delaware, by strik- 

 ing out of said section the words "A registered assistant with one year continuous 



