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prescriptions in the city of Baltimore without complying with the requirements of 

 this act, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and be subject to a penalty or 

 fine of fifty dollars ($50) for each and every week he shall continue to vend, at retail, 

 poisonous drugs for medicinal use, or compound or dispense physicians' prescriptions 

 in violation of this act; said penalty or fine to be sued for in the name of the State 

 of Maryland before a justice of the peace, as small debts are now recoverable; said 

 penalty or fine to go to the Maryland board cf pharmacy, appointed under this act, 

 to be used as a fund for carrying out the proi isions of this act; and it shall be the 

 duty of the State's attorney of the city of Baltimore, at the request of said board of 

 pharmacy, to prosecute any person who shall have violated any requirement of this 

 act: Provided, That nothing in this act shall be so construed as to prevent any 

 practicing physician from supplying medicines in connection with professional 

 practice, nor to restrict the sale, at retail, of patent and proprietary medicines and 

 compounds prepared and compounded for medical use by wholesale dealers in drugs 

 and medicines, when sold in original package box or bottle; and no penalty shall 

 hereafter be enforced against any person for the sale of patent or proprietary medi- 

 cines or compounds prepared by wholesale dealers in drugs and medicines when sold 

 as aforesaid; and no penalty shall hereafter be enforced against any person for the 

 sale of proprietary or patent medicines or drugs other than poisonous. 



SEC. 390. That the Maryland College of Pharmacy shall nominate, biennially, of 

 the most skilled and competent pharmacists of the city of Baltimore ten (10) persons, 

 from amongst whom the governor shall appoint three (3) commissioners, whose 

 duty it shall be to faithfully and impartially execute, or cause to be executed, all 

 the provisions and requirements of this act. They shall, upon application and in 

 such manner and in such place as they may determine, examine each and every per- 

 son who shall desire to engage in vending, at retail, drugs, medicines, or chemicals 

 for medicinal use, or in compounding and dispensing physicians' prescriptions in the 

 city of Baltimore, touching his competency and qualifications, and upon being sat- 

 isfied that the person so examined is competent and qualified to vend, at retail, 

 drugs, medicines, and chemicals for medicinal use, and compound and dispense 

 physicians' prescriptions safely, and without jeopardy to the health and lives of the 

 people of the city of Baltimore, they or any two of them shall grant such person a 

 certificate of competency and register him as a pharmacist. 



SEC. 391. That the commissioners appointed under this act shall be styled and 

 known as the " Commissioners of Pharmacy and Practical Chemistry," and shall 

 hold office for two years and thereafter, until their successors have been appointed 

 and have qualified. Said commissioners shall, within thirty (30) days after notifi- 

 cation of their appointment, each subscribe to an oath before the clerk of the 

 superior court of Baltimore city to impartially and faithfully discharge the duties 

 prescribed by this act. The position of any commissioner appointed under this act 

 who shall fail to qualify within the time and in the manner named shall be vacant. 

 The governor shall fill all vacancies occurring from amongst the persons nominated 

 by the Maryland College of Pharmacy under section 390 of this act. 



SEC. 392. That each and every person, before commencing to vend, at retail, drugs, 

 medicines, or chemicals for medicinal use, or to compound or dispense physicians' 

 prescriptions in the city of Baltimore, as managing owner of a store, or as managing 

 assistant of a store, or as relief clerk temporarily in charge of a store, shall register 

 as a pharmacist under the provisions of this act. That every person who shall at 

 the time that this act goes into effect be engaged in vending, at retail, drugs, medi- 

 cines, and chemicals for medicinal use, and compounding and dispensing physicians' 

 prescriptions in the city of Baltimore, and registered as pharmacist under an act 

 entitled " An act to prevent incompetent persons from conducting business as phar- 

 macists, or vending, at retail, drugs, medicines, or chemicals for medicinal use in 

 .the city of Baltimore," approved April 1st, 1872, and amended by the repeal and 

 reenactment of sections 2 and 9, chapter 91, passed at January session, 1876, shall be 

 deemed competent to register as a pharmacist within the meaning of this act. That 



