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him at any meeting of the board within six months, without further payment. No 

 registered assistant pharmacist shall open or conduct a pharmacy on his own account, 

 or he granted a certificate as registered pharmacist until he has passed an examina- 

 tion as herein provided. 



SEC. 6. Nothing in this act or of the acts of which this is supplemental and 

 amendatory shall he so construed as to prohihit the employment in any pharmacy 

 of an apprentice for the purpose of being instructed in the practice of pharmacy, but 

 such apprentice shall not be permitted to prepare and dispense physicians' prescrip- 

 tions, or to sell or furnish poisons, except in the presence and under the supervision 

 of a registered pharmacist or a registered assistant pharmacist. 



SEC. 7. It shall be the duty of the State board of pharmacy to investigate all 

 complaints of disregard, noncompliance with or violations of the provision's of this 

 act, aud the act to which this is supplemental and amendatory, and to bring all 

 such cases to the notice of the county attorney of the county where such person is 

 doing business, and it shall be the duty of such county attorney to diligently prose- 

 cute to effect any such violation. 



SEC. 8. Said State board of pharmacy shall, on or before the 10th day of January 

 of each year, make annual report to the governor of its proceedings for the pre- 

 ceding calendar year, together with an account of all moneys received and dis- 

 bursed by them in pursuance of this act. 



SEC. 9. The secretary of the State board of pharmacy shall, on the application of 

 any party, issue to such applicant a certificate or statement showing that the person 

 named m the application is a registered pharmacist, a registered assistant pharma- 

 cist, or either, as the case may be. The secretary shall be entitled to and receive 

 a fee of twenty -five cents for each such certificate or statement which he may issue, 

 such fee to accompany the application. 



SEC. 10. Original sections two, four, five, six, nine, and twelve of chapter one 

 hundred and fifty of the session laws of 1885 are hereby repealed. 



SEC. 11. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its publication 

 in the official State paper. 



KENTUCKY. 



CHAPTEII 492. 



AN ACT to establish a State board of pharmacy, defining its duties and powers, and to regulate 

 the practice of pharmacy in the Commonwealth of Kentucky. 



Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky : 

 SECTION 1. That within sixty days after the passage of this act the governor 

 shall appoint five persons from among the pharmacists of the State, who have been 

 recommended by the Kentucky pharmaceutical association, which recommendation 

 shall include not less than ten of said pharmacists, who shall constitute the Ken- 

 tucky board of pharmacy. It shall be the duty of each member of said board, before 

 entering upon the discharge of his duties, to appear before an officer authorized to 

 administer oaths in this State, and make oath to properly and faithfully discharge 

 the duties of a member of the board. 



SEC. 2. One of the said members shall hold office for one year, one for two years, 

 one for three years, one for four years, and one for five years, which term shall be 

 determined by vote at the first meeting of said board of pharmacy.* The members of 

 the board shall meet at such time and place as may be designated by the member 

 whose name is first on the list of appointments, and shall first proceed to determine 

 by vote the respective terms for which they shall serve, and shall organize by elect- 

 ing a president, treasurer, and secretary, who shall hold their offices for the term 

 of one year, or until their successors are elected and qualified. They shall receive 

 such compensation as the board may fix. Thereafter the board shall meet at least 

 twice in each year, and any three members of the board shall constitute a quorum. 

 The board shall have power to make such by-laws as it may deem necessary, not 

 inconsistent with the constitution of this State or with the provisions of this act. 



