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towns where the population is five thousand and over, the fee shall not exceed six 

 dollars, and where the population is from three thousand to five thousand, it shall 

 not exceed four dollars, and all under three thousand, shall not exceed two dollars. 



SEC. 7. Every application for registration shall he accompanied by the fee fixed 

 by the board. The fee fixed by the board shall, as far as necessary, bo devoted to 

 defraying the expenses of the board and paying its officers such compensation as 

 the board may fix. 



SEC. 8. It shall be unlawful for any person to retail, compound, or dispense medi- 

 cines or poisons for medical uses within this State, without first obtaining a certfi- 

 cate of registration as pharmacist from the State board of pharmacy, and causiug 

 the same to be recorded in the office of the clerk of the county court in the county 

 wherein said person proposes to carry on such business. 



SEC. 9. Before any person who may have registered as a pharmacist, and obtained 

 a certificate thereof, shall commence or continue the business of a pharmacist in 

 any county of this Commonwealth, he shall lodge said certificate with the county 

 clerk of the county wherein such business is carried on or is to be carried on, which 

 shall be recorded by said clerk in a book to be kept in his office for such purpose, 

 and indorse his certificate of such recording on the said certificate of registration, 

 and deliver the same to the owner thereof, within the first ten days of the next ensu- 

 ing January, and annually thereafter the said pharmacist, if he continue in business 

 or intends to continue in business, shall go before the county court in the county in 

 which he is doing business or intends to do business, and apply for a renewal of his 

 license, and upon producing his certificate of registration he shall be entitled to a 

 renewal certificate, under which he may conduct such business. For each record 

 of certificate of registration the county clerk shall be entitled to a fee of fifty cents, 

 which shall be paid by the pharmacist receiving same. It shall be the duty of each 

 county court clerk in this State to keep constantly at hand a correct list of the regis- 

 tered pharmacists in the county whose certificates are recorded in his office, and of 

 the renewals issued by him, and report same in writing to every grand jury impan- 

 eled at the regular term of the circuit court in his county, and during the month of 

 February of each year he shall make a full and correct list of the registered phar- 

 macists in his county and forward the same to the secretary of the State board of 

 pharmacy. For each failure to perform his duties under this act such clerk shall, 

 upon conviction, be fined fifty dollars by warrant, in any court having jurisdiction 

 thereof. 



SEC. 10. Any person not being a registered pharmacist, or who shall not have 

 complied with all the provisions of this act, who shall take, exhibit, or use the title 

 of pharmacist, or who proposes to or does compound or dispense prescriptions of 

 medical practitioners, or retail medicines or poisons to be used as medicines, or shall 

 in any way violate the provisions of this act, shall be subject to indictment for each 

 offense, and upon conviction shall be fined, for the first offense, twenty-five dollars 

 and the cost of prosecution, and upon indictment and conviction for a second offense 

 under this act shall be fined fifty dollars and the cost of prosecution, and for each 

 subsequent violation he shall be fined one hundred dollars and the cost of prosecu- 

 tion. 



SEC. 11. All prosecutions under this act shall be in the name of the Common- 

 wealth of Kentucky, and all fines imposed and collected under such prosecutions, 

 after payment of all costs and expenses of such prosecutions, including the usual 

 commission to the prosecuting attorney, shall be paid over to the trustee of the jury 

 fund in the county where such fines are imposed, and by him reported and paid to 

 the auditor of public accounts for the State, as other public moneys collected by 

 him are by law required to be reported and paid over. And all such sums thus 

 reported and paid over shall go into arid become a part of the common fund of t)ie 

 State. 



SEC. 12. Nothing in this act shall be construed to apply to the business of a 

 licensed practitioner of medicine, nor to prevent such practitioner from supplying 



