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a schedule of questions to be answered ami subscribed to under oath, or orally, each 

 and every person who shall desire** to conduct the business of selling at retail, com- 

 pounding or dispensing drugs, medicines, or chemicals for medicinal use, or com- 

 pounding or dispensing physicians' prescriptions as pharmacists, and if a majority 

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

 <iualified to conduct said business of compounding or dispensing drugs, medicines, 

 or chemicals for medicinal use, or to compound or dispense physicians' prescriptions, 

 they shall enter the name of such person as a registered pharmacist in the book pro- 

 vided for in section 4 of this act; and all graduates in pharmacy, having a diploma 

 from an incorporated college or school of pharmacy that requires a practical expe- 

 rience 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 without examination. 



SEC. 6. That the commissioners of pharmacy shall be entitled to demand and 

 receive from each person whom they register and furnish a certificate as a registered 

 pharmacist, without examination, the sum of two dollars; and from each and every 

 person whom they examine orally, or whose answers to a schedule of questions are 

 returned subscribed to under oath, the sum of five dollars, which shall be in full for 

 all services. And in case the examination of said person shall prove detective and 

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

 self for reexamination within any period not exceeding twelve months next there- 

 after, and no charge shall be made for such rci : \amination. 



SEC. 7. Every registered pharmacist shall bo 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 

 patent medicines, and should he knowingly, intentionally, and fraudulently adul- 

 terate, or cause to be adulterated, such drugs, chemicals, or medical preparations 

 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 

 be stricken from the register. 



SEC. 8. Pharmacists whose certificates of registration are in full force and effect 

 shall have the sole right to keep and to sell, under such regulations as have been or 

 may be established from time to time by the commissioners of pharmacy, all medi- 

 cines and poisons excepting intoxicating liquors. 



SEC. 9. 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, except as follows: 



SCHEDULE A. 



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

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

 all other poisonous vegetable alkaloids and their salts, essential oil of bitter 

 almonds, opium and its preparations, except paregoric and other preparations of 

 opium containing less than two grains to the ounce. 



SCHEDULE B. 



Aconite, belladonna, colchicum, conium, nux vomica, henbane, savin, ergot, cotton 

 root, cantharides, creosote, digitalis, and their pharmaceutical preparations; croton 

 oil, chloroform, chloral hydrate, sulphate of zinc, mineral acids, carbolic acid and 

 oxalic acid, without distinctly labeling the box, vessel, or paper in which the said 

 poison is contained, and also the outside wrapper or cover, 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 person to sell or deliver any poison enumerated in schedules 

 A and B 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 purpose. 

 Nor shall it be lawful for any registered pharmacist to sell any poisons included in 



