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or any other person, permit the compounding or dispensing of prescriptions, or the 

 vending of drugs, medicines, or poisons, in his store or place of business, except by 

 or in the presence and under the supervision of a registered pharmacist, or except 

 by a registered assistant; or any person not being a registered pharmacist who shall 

 take charge of or act as manager of such pharmacy or store, or who, not being a 

 registered pharmacist or registered assistant, shall retail, compound, or dispense 

 drugs, medicines, or poisons, or any person violating any other provision of this act 

 to which no other penalty is herein attached, shall be deemed guilty of a misde- 

 meanor, and for every such offense, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a 

 fine of not less than ten nor more than one hundred dollars, and in default of pay- 

 ment thereof shall be imprisoned not less than ten days nor more than ninety days, 

 or both such line and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court. 



SEC. 10. Nothing in this act shall apply to, or in any manner interfere with, the 

 business of any practicing physician who does not keep open shop for retailing, 

 dispensing, or compounding of medicine and poison, or prevent him from supplying 

 to his patient such articles as may seem to him proper, nor with the vending of 

 patent or proprietary medicines by any retail dealer who lias been in such business 

 three years or more, nor with the selling 1>\ any person of drugs, medicines, chem- 

 icals, essential oils, and tinctures which are put up in bottles, boxes, packages, 

 bearing labels securely affixed, which labels shall bear the name of the pharmacist 

 or druggist putting up the same, the dose that may be administered to persons 

 three'months, six months, one year, three years, five years, ten years, fifteen years, 

 and twenty-one years of age, and, if a poison, the name or names of the most com- 

 mon antidotes; of copperas, borax, blue vitriol, saltpeter, pepper, sulphur, brim- 

 stone, Paris given, liroriee. MI-.-, senna leaves, castor oil, sweet oil, spirits of tur- 

 pentine, glycerin, Glauber salts, Epsom salts, cream tartar, bicarbonate of soda, 

 sugar of lead, and such acids as are used in coloring and tanning, nor with the sell- 

 ing of paregoric, essence of peppermint, essence of ginger, essence of cinnamon, 

 hive syrup, syrup of ipecac, tincture of arnica, syrup of tolu, syrup of squills, spirits 

 of camphor, number six, sweet spirits of nitre, laudanum, quinine, and all other 

 preparations of cinchona bark, tincture of aconite, and tincture of iron, compound 

 cathartic pills, or quinine pills, nor with the exclusively wholesale business of any 

 dealer: Provided, That every person who shall, within three, months after this act 

 takes effect, forward to the board of pharmacy satisfactory proof, supported by his 

 affidavit, that he was engaged in the business of a dispensing pharmacist on his own 

 account in this State, in the preparation of physicians' prescriptions, three years 

 next previous to the second clay of June, 1885, or that at such time he had been 

 employed or engaged three years or more as a pharmacist in the compounding of 

 physicians' prescriptions, and was at said t hue so employed in this State, shall, upon 

 the payment to the board of a fee of two dollars, be granted the certificate of a 

 registered pharmacist : And provided, further, That the said board may grant, at a 

 fee not exceeding one dollar, to such person not less than sixteen years of age who 

 shall pass a satisfactory examination touching his competency before the board of 

 pharmacy the certificate of registered "assistant," but such certificate shall not 

 entitle the holder to engage in business on his own account or to take charge of or 

 act as manager of a pharmacy or drug store. 



SEC. 11. No person shall add to or remove from any drug, medicine, chemical, 

 pharmaceutical preparation any ingredient or material for the purpose of adulter- 

 ation or substitution which shall deteriorate the quality, commercial value, or 

 medicinal effect, or which shall alter the nature or composition of such drug, medi- 

 cine, chemical, or pharmaceutical preparation so that it will not correspond to the 

 recognized tests of identity or purity. Any person who shall thus willfully adul- 

 terate or alter, or cause to be adulterated or altered, or shall sell or offer for sale, 

 any such drugs, medicine, chemical, or pharmaceutical preparation, or any person 

 who shall substitute, or cause to be substituted, one material for another, with the 

 intention to defraud or deceive the purchaser, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and 



