tnore than 900 inhabitants, for selling at retail, compounding or dispensing^ drugs, 

 medicines, or chemicals for medical uses, or compounding or dispensing physicians' 

 prescriptions, and all assistant pharmacists eighteen years of age engaged in said 

 stores or pharmacies in any village, town, or city of more than 900 inhabitants in 

 the State of Alabama, at the passage of this act, and who have been engaged as 

 such in some store or pharmacy where physicians' prescriptions were compounded 

 and dispensed: Provided, however, That in case of failure or neglect on the part of 

 any person or persons to apply for registration within sixty days after they shall 

 have been notified by said board of pharmacy for the State of Alabama, they shall 

 undergo an examination as is provided for in section five of this act. 



SEC. 5. Be it further enacted, That the said board of pharmacy shall, upon applica- 

 tion, and at such time and place and in such manner as they may determine, either 

 by a schedule of questions to be answered and subscribed to under oath, or orally, 

 examine each and every person who shall desire to conduct the business of selling 

 at retail, compounding or dispensing drugs, medicines, or chemicals for medicinal 

 use, or compounding or dispensing physicians' prescriptions as pharmacists, and if 

 a. majority of said board shall be satisfied that said person is competent and fully 

 qualified to conduct said business of compounding or dispensing" drugs, niedieines 

 or chemicals foifTBediemal use, or to compound or dispense physicians' prescriptions, 

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

 vided for in section four of this act; and that all graduates of colleges of pharmacy 

 that require a practical experience in pharmacy of not less than four years before 

 granting a diploma shall be entitled to have their names registered by said board 

 without examination : Provided, however, That this act shall not be so construed as to 

 prevent any physician who is authorized to practice medicine or surgery under the 

 laws of this State from registering as a pharmacist or druggist, without examina- 

 tion: Provided, That any person or persons, not a pharmacist or druggist, may open 

 and conduct such store if he or they keep constantly in their employ a registered 

 pharmacist or druggist; but shall not himself or themselves sell or dispense drugs 

 or medicines except proprietary and patent medicines in original packages. 



SEC. 6. Be it further enacted, That the board of pharmacy shall be entitled to 

 demand and receive of each person whom they register, and furnish a certificate as 

 a registered pharmacist without examination, the sum of $2; and for each and every 

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

 returned, subscribed to under oath, the sum of $3, which shall be in full for all 

 services; and in case of examination of said person shall prove defective and unsat- 

 isfactory, and his name not to 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 be held 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 misde- 

 meanor, 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, from and 

 after the passage of this act, to retail any poison enumerated below : Arsenic and its 

 preparations, corrosive sublimates, white and red precipitate, beuiodide of mercury, 

 cyanide of potassium, hydrocyanic acid, strychnine, and all poisonous vegetable 

 alkaloids and their salts, and the essential oil of almonds; opium and its prepara- 

 tions, except paregoric and other preparations of opium containing less than two 

 grains to the ounce; aconite, belladonna, colchicum, conium, nux vornica, henbane, 

 savin, ergot, cotton root, cantharides, creosote, veratrum, digitalis, and their phar- 

 maceutical preparations j croton oil, chloroform, chloral hydrate, sulphate of zinc, 



