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every person holding a diploma from a regular chartered and recognized college or 

 school of pharmacy, based upon a full apprenticeship of four years, as a pharmacist, 

 and who presents satisfactory evidence of these facts to the said commissioners of 

 pharmacy and practical chemistry, shall be deemed competent, and entitled to reg- 

 ister as a pharmacist. 



SEC. 393. That said commissioners of pharmacy and practical chemistry shall 

 demand and receive from each applicant for registration whom they examine five 

 (5) dollars for each examination, and shall likewise be entitled to demand and 

 receive one (1) dollar from every person whom they register or re-register, which 

 money so received under the provisions of this section shall be used and applied by 

 said board to defray the expenses accruing or arising under this act. And that 

 every pharmacist, managing assistant, and relief clerk in the city of Baltimore shall 

 re-register annually, after his first registration, during the term he shall continue 

 in the practice of his profession, on such date as the board of pharmacy may 

 determine, and shall pay to the said board the fee of one (1) dollar as provided in 

 this section, for which he shall receive a renewal of said registration. 



SEC. 394. That in case of the death of a registered pharmacist, doing business as 

 such in the city of Baltimore, his legal representative may continue said business 

 for the benefit of the estate of said deceased under the control and management of a 

 registered pharmacist, subject to all the requirements of this act. 



SEC. 395. That no person, unless he be registered as a pharmacist under this act 

 or unless he be an apprentice who has had at least two years' experience under a 

 pharmacist, or who has attended at least one full course of lectures on pharmacy, 

 chemistry and materia niedica, shall be permitted to compound and dispense the 

 prescriptions, except under the supervison of a registered pharmacist. Any regis- 

 tered pharmacist- violating this section, or permitting its violation in any store under 

 his charge or management, shall be subject to a penally or fine of not more than 

 fifty (50) dollars, which fines are to be disposed of as provided in section 393. 



SEC. 396. That all acts and parts of acts, so far as they maybe in conllict with this 

 act, are hereby declared void and of no effect. 



SEC. 397. Any person who shall mix with any substance or preparation used, or 

 intended to be used as an officinal medicine, any foreign or inert substance for 

 the purpose of adulterating or weakening the same, or shall knowingly sell or 

 knowingly offer for sale any officinal medicines so adulterated or deficient in stair) 

 ard strength, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and subject to a penalty 6ii 

 fine of fifty (50) dollars, as provided in the preceding section. 



MONTANA. 



Has no pharmacy law. 



MASSACHUSETTS. 



[Chapter 313, Acts of 1885.] 



AN ACT to establish a board of registration in pharmacy. 



Be it enacted, etc., as follows: 



SECTION 1. The governor of the Commonwealth, with the advice and consent of the 

 council, shall appoint, after the passage of this act, five skilled pharmacists, resident 

 in the Commonwealth, who have had ten consecutive years of practical experience 

 in the compounding and dispensing of physicians' prescriptions, who shall constitute 

 a board of registration in pharmacy. Such persons shall be appointed and hold office, 

 beginning on the first day of October next, one for one year, one for two years, one 

 for three years, one for four years, and one for five years, or until their successors 

 shall be appointed; and the governor shall appoint annually thereafter before the 

 first day of October in each year one skilled pharmacist, qualified as aforesaid, to 

 hold office for five years from the first day of October next ensuing. Not more than 



