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SEC. 2. Any person in order to be a registered pharmacist, must be a graduate of 

 pharmacy, a licentiate in pharmacy, or a practicing pharmacist. 



SEC. 3. Graduates in pharmacy are persons .who have had four years' experience 

 in stores where the prescriptions of medical practitioners are compounded, and 

 each must have obtained a diploma from a legally constituted college of pharmacy. 

 Licentiates in pharmacy are persons who have had four years' experience in stores 

 where the prescriptions of medical practitioners are compounded, and shall have 

 passed an examination before the State board of pharmacy, or who shall present 

 satisfactory credentials or certificates of their attainments to the said board. 

 Practicing pharmacists are persons who, at the passage of this act, are conducting 

 pharmacies in this State for compounding and dispensing of prescriptions of medi- 

 cal practitioners, and for the sale of medicines and poisons. Assistant pharmacists 

 are persons of not less than eighteen years of age, who are employed by registered 

 pharmacists, have studied the art of pharmacy for two years, and have passed an 

 examination by the board of pharmacy, or who, prior to the passage of this act, 

 have had three years' experience in pharmacies. 



SEC. 4. Every pharmacist claiming the right of registration under this act shall, 

 on or before the first day of January next after its passage, forward to the board of 

 pharmacy satisfactory proof that he was engaged in the business of preparing and 

 dispensing medicines and physicians' prescriptions at the time of passage of this 

 act, or that he is otherwise entitled to registration under its provisions. The 

 board of pharmacy shall then issue to said applicant, upon his paying the sum of 

 five dollars, a certificate of registration. Any practicing pharmacist failing to 

 comply with the requirements of this section, within sixty days from and after the 

 first day of January, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, shall forfeiet his right to 

 registration, and shall appear for examination, as provided for in this act. 



SEC. 5. Every assistant pharmacist'claiming right of registration under this act, 

 without passing an examination by the board of pharmacy, shall, on or before the 

 first day of January next after the passage, forward to the board of pharmacy satis- 

 factory proof that he has had three years' experience in drug stores where physicians' 

 prescriptions are prepared ; the board of pharmacy shall then issue to said applicant, 

 upon his paying the sum of one dollar, a certificate of registration as assistant 

 pharmacist. Any assistant failing to comply with the requirements of this section, 

 within sixty days from and after the first day of January, eighteen hundred and 

 ninety-two, shall forfeit his right to registration without passing the examination 

 provided for in this act. No registered assistant shall conduct a pharmacy, or be 

 granted a certificate as a registered pharmacist, until he has passed the examination 

 for licentiate in pharmacy, as required by this act. 



SEC. 6. Within thirty days after the passage of this act, and every fourth year there- 

 after, the governor shall appoint seven competent pharmacists, residing in different 

 parts of the State, to serve as a board of pharmacy. The members of this board 

 shall, within thirty days after their appointment, individually take and subscribe, 

 before the county clerk in the county in which they individually reside, on oath, 

 faithfully and impartially to discharge the duties prescribed by this act. They 

 shall hold office for the term of four years, and until their successors are appointed 

 and qualified. In case of vacancy in the board of pharmacy, the governor shall fill 

 the same by appointing a member to serve for the remainder of the term only. The 

 office of said board shall be located in San Francisco. The board shall organize by 

 electing a president and a secretary, the latter to be ex-officio treasurer of the board 

 Four members of the board shall constitute a quorum. They shall meet at least 

 quarterly, and have the power to make by-laws for the proper fulfillment of their 

 duties. The duties of the board shall be to transact all business pertaining to the 

 legal regulations of the practice of pharmacy; to investigate all complaints respect- 

 ing noncompliance with, or violation of, the provisions of this act, and to bring the 

 same to the notice of the proper prosecuting officer, whenever there appears to the 

 board to be reasonable grounds for such action, and to examine and register aa 



