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strued to prohibit the employment of apprentices or assistants under the personal 

 supervision of a registered pharmacist. 



SEC. 10. This act shall not apply to physicians putting up their own prescriptions 

 or dispensing medicines to their patients; nor to the sale of drugs, medicines, 

 chemicals, or poisons at wholesale only; nor to the manufacture or sale of patent 

 and proprietary medicines; nor to the sale of nonpoisonous domestic remedies 

 usually sold by grocers or others; nor shall any member of a copartnership be liable 

 to the penalties hereof if any other member of such copartnership is a registered 

 pharmacist: Provided, That such iion registered member shall not retail, compound 

 for sale, or dispense for medicinal purposes drugs, medicines, chemicals, or poisons 

 except under the personal supervision of a registered pharmacist. 



SEC. 11. For the purpose of the appointment of said board and of registration of 

 persons by them hereuuder this act shall take effect upon its passage, and shall take 

 full effect on the first day of January in the year eighteen hundred and eighty-six. 



Approved June 11, 1885. 



MICHIGAN. 



AN ACT to regulate the practice of pharmacy in the State of Michigan. 



SECTION 1. The people of the State of Michigan enact, That the governor, with the 

 advice and consent of the senate, shall, within thirty days after the passage of this 

 act, appoint five persons and annually thereafter one person from among such compe- 

 tent pharmacists in the State as have had ten years' practical experience in dispensing 

 physicians' prescriptions, who shall constitute the Michigan board of pharmacy. 

 The term of office of said five persons shall be so arranged that the term of one shall 

 expire on the thirty-first day of December of each year, and. all appointments made 

 thereafter shall be for the term of five years. 



SEC. 2. The said board shall, within thirty days after its appointment, meet and 

 organize by election of a president and secretary from its own members, who shall 

 be elected for the term of one year, and shall perform the duties prescribed by the 

 board. It shall be the duty of the board to examine all applications for registration 

 submitted in proper form ; to grant certificates of registration to such persons as 

 may be entitled to the same under the provisions of this act; to investigate com- 

 plaints and to cause the prosecution of all persons violating its provisions; to report 

 annually to the governor, and to the Michigan pharmaceutical association, upon the 

 condition of pharmacy in the State, which said report shall also furnish a record of 

 the proceedings of the said board, for the year, and also the names of all pharmacists 

 duly registered under this act. The board shall hold meetings for the examinations of 

 applicants for registration, and the transaction of such other business as shall per- 

 tain to its duties, at least once in four months, said meetings to be held on the first 

 Tuesdays of March, July, and November in each year; shall make by-laws for the 

 proper fulfillment of its duties under this act, and shall keep a book of registration 

 in which shall be entered the names and places of business of all persons registered 

 under this act, which book shall also specify such facts as said persons shall claim 

 to justify their registration. The records of said board, or a copy of any part thereof, 

 certified by the secretary to be a true copy, attested by the seal of the board, shall 

 be accepted as competent evidence in all courts of the State. Three members of 

 said board shall constitute a quorum. 



SEC. 3. The secretary of the board and treasurer thereof, if such separate officer 

 be created, shall receive a salary which shall be fixed by the board. They shall also 

 receive the amount of their traveling and other expenses incurred in the performance 

 of their official duties. The other members shall receive the sum of three dollars for 

 each day actually engaged in this service, and all legitimate and necessary expenses 

 incurred in the performance of their official duties. Said salaries, per diem, and 

 expenses shall be paid from the fees received under the provisions of this act. All 

 moneys received in excess of said per diem allowance, and other expenses provided 

 for, shall be paid into the State treasury at the end of each year, and so much thereof 



