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one member of said board shall be interested in the sale of drugs, medicines, and 

 chemicals, and the compounding and dispensing of physicians' prescriptions in the 

 same city or town. All vacancies occurring in said board shall be filled in accord- 

 ance with the provisions of this act for the establishment of the original board. Any 

 member of said board may be removed from office for cause by the governor with the 

 advice and consent of the council. 



SEC. 2. The members of said board shall meet on the first Tuesday of October next, 

 at such time and place as they may determine, and shall immediately proceed to 

 organize by electing a president and secretary who shall be members of the board 

 and who shall hold their respective offices for the term of one year. The secretary 

 shall give to the treasurer and receiver-general of the Commonwealth a bond with 

 sufficient sureties, to be approved by the governor and council, for the faithful dis- 

 charge of the duties of his office. The said board shall hold three regular meetings 

 in each year, one on the first Tuesday of January, one on the first Tuesday of May, 

 and one on the first Tuesday of October, and such additional meetings at such times 

 and places as they may determine. 



SEC. 3. Repealed May, 1887; such repeal not to impair or affect the rights or priv- 

 ileges of any person hitherto registered as a pharmacist under the provisions of said 

 section. 



SEC. 4. Any person not entitled to registration as aforesaid shall, upon payment 

 of a fee of five dollars, be entitled to examination, and if found qualified shall be 

 registered as a pharmacist, and shall receive the certificate thereof provided for in 

 section three. Any person may be reexamined at any regular meeting of the board 

 upon the payment of a fee of three dollars. All fees received by the board under 

 this act shall be paid by the secretary of the board into the treasury of the Com- 

 monwealth once in each month. 



SEC. 5. The compensation, incidental and traveling expenses of the board shall 

 be paid from the treasury of the Commonwealth. The compensation of the board 

 shall be five dollars each for every day actually spent in the discharge of their 

 duties, and three cents per mile each way for necessary traveling expenses in 

 attending the meetings of the board, but in no case shall any more be paid than 

 was actually expended. Such compensation and the incidental and traveling ex- 

 penses shall be approved by the board and sent to the auditor of the Commonwealth 

 \o shall certify to the governor and council the amounts due as in case of all other 

 >ills and accounts approved by him under the provisions of law: Provided, That the 

 amount so paid shall not exceed the amount received by the treasurer and receiver- 

 general of the Commonwealth from the board in fees as herein specified, and so 

 much of said receipts as may be necessary is hereby appropriated for the compensa- 

 tion and expenses of the board as aforesaid. 



SEC. 6. The board shall keep a record of the names of all persons registered here- 

 under, and a record of all moneys received and disbursed by said board, a duplicate 

 whereof shall always be open to inspection in the office of the secretary of the 

 Commonwealth. Said board shall annually report to the governor, on or before the 

 first day of January in each year, the condition of pharmacy in the State, which 

 report shall contain a full and complete record of all its official acts during the year, 

 and shall also contain a statement of the receipts and disbursements of the board. 



SEC. 7. It shall be the duty of the board to investigate all complaints of disregard, 

 noncompliance, or violation of the provisions of this act, and to bring all such cases 

 to the notice of the proper prosecuting officers. 



SEC. 8. Every person who has received a certificate of registration from the 

 board shall conspicuously display the same in his place of business. 



SEC. 9. Whoever not being registered as aforesaid shall, by himself or his agent 



or servant, unless such agent or servant is so registered, retail, compound for sale, or 



dispense for medicinal purposes drugs, medicines, chemicals, or poisons shall be 



punished by a fine not exceeding fifty dollars. But nothing in this act shall be con- 



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