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drugs or medicines be exposed or displayed for sale in any such store, unless the 

 same is placed and kept under the personal control and supervision of a registered 

 apothecary or qualified assistant, but such store may be under the charge of a' quali- 

 fied assistant during the temporary absence of such registered apothecary. 



SEC. 8. Any person engaged in the business of apothecary in the State of Maine 

 on the eleventh day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred 

 and seventy- seven, may receive a certificate and be registered as aforesaid on appli- 

 cation to said commissioners with proof of his competency. 



SEC. 9. If any person who was not engaged in the business of an apothecary within 

 the State of Maine on the eleventh day of March, in the year of our Lord one thou- 

 sand eight hundred and seventy-seven, shall hereafter engage in or be found in charge 

 of or carrying on the business of an apothecary contrary to provisions of this act, 

 he shall upon indictment and conviction be subject to a penalty of fifty dollars per 

 month for the first offense, and one hundred dollars per month for each and every 

 subsequent offense whether for continuance in said business or for engaging anew 

 therein in violation of the provisions of this act. It is hereby made the duty of the 

 county attorney in each county, upon complaint made by any one of said commis- 

 sioners, to prosecute all violations of the provisions of this act. The treasurer of 

 each county shall pay to the treasurer of the law library association of his county 

 for the use and benefit of the county law library, twenty per cent of all fines actu- 

 ally paid into the county treasury for the violation of any of the provisions of this 

 act. 



SEC. 10. The provisions of this act shall apply in the cases of women who shall 

 hereafter enter upon and carry on the business of apothecaries. 



Sue. 11. This act shall not apply in the case of physicians who prepare and dis- 

 pense their own medicines, nor to the sale of proprietary preparations. 



SEC. 12. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act are hereby repealed. 



SEC. 13. Any person may enter upon the business of an apothecary without the 

 cartificate required by the foregoing act, provided lie does not personally do the 

 duties of an apothecary, but employs a duly registered apothecary who has sole 

 charge of compounding, putting up, and dispensing medicines and drugs under the 

 provisions of this act. 



SEC. 14. No action now pending by virtue of section six of chapter twenty-eight 

 of the revised statutes shall be maintained except as to costs, or shall hereafter be 

 commenced for any penalty or forfeiture incurred prior to the approval of this act. 



SEC. 15. The word apothecary as used in this act shall not include persons who do 

 not compound medicines, put up prescriptions, or sell poisons. 



SEC. 16. This act shall take effect when ap proved. 



[As amended by act approved March 25, 1893.] 



MARYLAND. 



AN ACT to repeal sections 388 to 396, inclusive, of article IV of the public local laws, title "City 

 of Baltimore," subtitle " Commissioners of pharmacy and practical chemistry," and to reenact the 

 same with amendments. 



SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, that sections 388, 

 389, 390, 391, 392, 393, 394, 395, and 396, inclusive, of article IV of public local 

 laws, title "City of Baltimore," subtitle "Commissioners of pharmacy and practical 

 chemistry," be, and the same are hereby, repealed and reenacted with amendments 

 so as to read as follows : 



SEC. 388. That the term or name pharmacist in the meaning and scope of this act 

 does mean, embrace, and apply to all persons engaged in vending, at retail, drugs, 

 medicines, and chemicals for medicinal use, and in compounding and dispensing 

 physicians' prescriptions, either as owner of stores, as managing assistants, or as 

 relief clerks in temporary charge of stores. 



SEC. 389. That any person who, after tiie passage of this act, does or shall vend, 

 at retail, poisonous drugs for medicinal use, or compound or dispense physicians' 



