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board shall elect a president and an officer to be known as the secretary and treas 

 urer, and in addition to its duties in holding examinations and granting certificate 

 it shall report to the prosecuting officer of the State of Louisiana all persons violating 

 the provisions of this act; it shall report annually to the governor of the State upon 

 the condition of pharmacy in the State, any recommendations for the improvemeu 

 of its practice, as well as a record of the proceedings of the board during the year 

 and the names of all pharmacists duly registered under this act ; and the fees collectet 

 under the provisions of this act shall be applied to the payment of the expenses o 

 the board in such manner as it shall direct. 



SEC. 7. Be it further enacted, etc., That all pharmacists, druggists, or apothecarie 

 shall label all bottles, vials, jars, boxes, parcels, packages, or other receptacles o 

 coverings, or wrappings of drugs, medicines, or chemicals sold or dispensed by them 

 with a label in legible writing or printed letters giving the name of the proprieto 

 of the store, the name of the physician prescribing, or shop and the place of sale o 

 said drug, medicine, or chemical; and in case the medicine, drug, or chemical be o 

 a nature poisonous to the human system or to animals said label shall have printe( 

 thereon a skull and crossbones, with the word " Poison" in large, heavy lettering 

 All prescriptions shall have in addition thereto a number, the name of the person 

 actually and personally compounding the same, the directions for its use internally 

 or externally, and the date of its compounding. 



SEC. 8. He it further enacted, etc., That any person offending against any provision 

 of this act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor against the State of Louisiana 

 and shall be prosecuted before any court of criminal jurisdiction, and if adjudge( 

 guilty shall pay a line of not less than fifty dollars ($50) nor more than one hundrec 

 dollars ($100), and in default of payment thereof shall be imprisoned in the parisl 

 jail for not more than thirty (30) days. 



SEC. 9. Be it further enacted, etc., That this act shall take effect thirty (30) day* 

 after its promulgation. 



S. P. HENRY, 

 Speaker of the House of Representatives. 



JAMES JEFFRIES, 

 Lieutenant- Governor and President of the Senate. 



Approved, July 11, 1888. 



FRANCIS T. NICHOLLS, 

 Governor of the State of Louisiana. 



OPINION OF HON. WALTER H. ROGERS, ATTORNEY-GENERAL OF .THE STATE OF 



LOUISIANA. 



Act 66 of 1888 does not repeal but modifies section 2, act 70 of 1877, in so far as to 

 fix the qualifications and determine who, under the law, is a licensed druggist. 



Act 27 of 1879, section 16, is a revenue act fixing the amount of license to be paid 

 as a privilege in pursuing the occupation. The proviso as to qualification is con- 

 trolled by act 66 of 1888. 



If a regular practitioner of medicine also engages in the practice of pharmacy, 

 institutes or conducts any apothecary or drug store or pharmacy shop, he cornea 

 under the provision of act 66, the exception as to him being simply as to furnishing 

 or administering drugs to his patients, the law evidently having in contemplation 

 the " saddle bags" of the doctor, and not a permanent establishment, as defined in 

 section 1 of act 66 of 1888. 



EXTRACT FROM ACT 70 OF 1877, LAWS OF LOUISIANA. 



SEC. 2. Be it enacted, That merchants, where there is no licensed drug store within 

 eightmiles of the place where such merchantis doing business, selling drugs in origi- 

 nal packages, prepared and labeled by any licensed druggist, shall not be required to 

 pay druggists' license. 



