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SEC. 3. The Kentucky pharmaceutical association shall, at each annual meeting, 

 nominate four (4) registered pharmacists, from whom the governor shall fill the 

 vacancy annually occurring in said hoard, and the person so appointed shall qualify, 

 as provided in section 1, and hold his office for five years. In case of a vacancy occur- 

 ring in the hoard from any other cause than expiration of time, the governor shall fill 

 the vacancy by appointment from the list of nominations last made. Removal from 

 the State or permanent discontinuance of business shall be considered a vacation of 

 this office. 



SEC. 4. It shall be the duty of said board to examine all applications for regis- 

 tration submitted in proper form, to grant certificates of registration to such per- 

 sons as may be entitled to the same under the provisions of this act; to report 

 annually to the governor, and to the Kentucky State pharmaceutical association, 

 upon the condition of Pharmacy in the State, which report shall furnish a record of 

 the proceedings of said board for the year and also the names and residences of the 

 pharmacists duly registered under this act. 



SEC. 5. The following classes of persons shall be entitled to registration as phar- 

 macists, upon the terms and conditions hereinafter expressed: 



First. Any person who, at the time of the passage of this act, is carrying on the 

 business of pharmacist on his own account, that is, retailing drugs, medicines, and 

 poisons, and dispensing and compounding prescriptions of medical practitioners, 

 and who shall within six months after the passage of this act forward to said board 

 of pharmacy his affidavit, accompanied by the affidavit of two disinterested persons 

 who are certified, by a county judge or justice of the peace of this State to be 

 reputable oiti/cns, that the applicant was so engaged in business onhis own account 

 in this State at the time of the passage of this act. 



Second. Any person who, at the time of his application, shall have had three 

 years' experience as pharmacist, and who shall pass a satisfactory examination 

 before the State board of pharmacy. 



Third. Any person who, at the time of the passage of this act, holds a certificate 

 of registration as assistant pharmacist, or who has, for three consecutive years 

 immediately preceding the passage of this act, been engaged as clerk in a retail 

 drug store where prescriptions are compounded, may, with the consent of the board 

 of pharmacy, and without examination, be registered as a pharmacist, and receive 

 a Certificate thereof. 



Fourth. Graduates of any school or college of pharmacy duly incorporated by the 

 general assembly of Kentucky, which shall, in addition to a theoretical course of 

 study, require at least three years' practical experience in the drug business as a 

 requisite for graduation. 



Fifth. Any graduate of a regularly incorporated school of medicine who is prac- 

 ticing and compounding medicines in this State, and who, at the time of the passage 

 of this act, had been practicing and compounding medicines" in this State for five 

 years immediately preceding the passage of this act. 



Sixth. Any regular practitioner of medicine who is practicing and compounding 

 medicines in this State, and who, at the time of the passage of this act, had been 

 practicing and compounding medicines in this State for ten years immediately pre- 

 ceding the passage of this act. No person under eighteen years of age shall be 

 entitled to registration under this act as a pharmacist. 



SKC. 6. Every applicant for registration under this act shall make written appli- 

 cation to the said board of pharmacy for such registration, accompanied by a writ- 

 ten statement signed by the applicant in his own baud, and duly verified before an 

 officer authorized to administer oaths in this State, fully setting forth the grounds 

 upon which such application is made. The board of pharmacy shalt have power to 

 make such rules and regulations for the examination of applicants for registration, 

 and the granting of certificates and the payment of license fees, as it may see 

 proper, not inconsistent with the provisions of this act: Provided, That in cities and 



