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and every person that they examine orally, on whose answers to a schedule of ques- 

 tions are returned, subscribed under oath, the sum of three dollars, which shall be 

 in full for services ; and in case the examination of said person shall prove defective 

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

 himself for examination within any period not exceeding twelve months thereafter, 

 and no charge shall be made for such examination. 



SEC. 7. Be it further enacted, That every registered pharmacist, apothecary, and 

 owner of any store shall beheld responsible for the quality of all drugs, chemicals, 

 or medicines he may sell or dispense, with the exception of those sold in original 

 packages of the manufacturer, and also those known as proprietary, and should he 

 knowingly intermingle and fraudulently adulterate, or cause to be adulterated, 

 such drugs, chemicals, or medical preparations, he shall be deemed guilty of a mis- 

 demeanor, and upon conviction thereof be liable to a penalty not exceeding $100, 

 and, in addition thereto, his name shall be stricken from the register. 



SEC. 8. Be it further enacted, That it shall be unlawful for any person not a regis- 

 tered pharmacist, from and after sixty days after the passage of this act, to retail 

 any poisons enumerated below: Arsenic and its preparations, corrosive sublimate 

 white and red precipitate, biniodide of mercury, cyannide of potassium, hydrocyanic 

 acid, strychnine, and all other poisonous vegetable alkaloids, and their salts, and 

 the essential oil of almonds, opium and its preparations, except paregoric and other 

 preparations of opium containing less than two grains to the ounce; aconite, bella- 

 donna, colchium, conium. nux vomica, henbane, savin, ergot, cotton root, canthar- 

 ides, creosote, veratrum digitalis, and their pharmaceutical preparations ; croton oil, 

 chloroform, chloral hydrate, sulphate of zinc, mineral acids, carbolic and- oxalic 

 acids; and he shall label the box. vessel, or paper in which said poison is contained 

 with the name of the article, the word "poison," and the name and place of business 

 of the seller. Nor shall it be lawful for any persons to deliver or sell any poisons 

 enumerated above, unless upon due inquiry it be found that the purchaser is aware 

 of its poisonous character and represents that it is to be used for a legitimate pur- 

 pose. The provisions of this section shall not apply to the dispensing of poisons in 

 not unusual quantities or doses upon the prescription of practitioners of medicine. 

 Any violation of this section shall make the principal of said store liable to a fine 

 of not less than $10 or more than $100: Provided, hoiccver, That this section shnll not 

 apply to manufacturers making and selling at wholesale any of the above poisons: 

 And provided, That each box, vessel, or paper in which said poison is contained shall 

 be labeled with the name of the article, the word " poison," and the name and place 

 of business of the seller. 



SEC. 9. Be it further enacted, That any itinerant vendor of any drug, poison, oint- 

 ment, or appliance of any kind intended for treatment of any disease, or injury or 

 deformity, by any drug, nostrum, or manipulation or other expedient, shall pay a 

 license of $500 per annum to the State, to be paid in the manner for obtaining public 

 license according to the usual laws in force for that purpose. 



SEC. 10. Be it further enacted, That any person who shall procure, or attempt to 

 procure, registration for himself or for another under this act by making, or caus- 

 ing to be made, false representations, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall, 

 upon conviction thereof, be liable to a penalty of not less than $25 nor more than 

 $100, and the name of the person so falsely registered shall be stricken from the 

 register. Any person not a registered pharmacist, as provided for in this act, who* 

 shall conduct such a store, pharmacy, or other place for retailing, compounding, or 

 dispensing drugs, medicines, or chemicals for medical use, or for compounding or 

 dispensing physicians' prescriptions, or who shall take, use, or exhibit the title of 

 registered pharmacist, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction 

 thereof shall be liable to a penalty of not less than $100. 



SEC. 11. This act shall not apply to physicians putting up their own prescriptions. 



SEC. 12. Be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of every registered phar 

 macist to conspicuously post his certificate of registration in his place of business. 



