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be liable to prosecution under this act. If convicted he shall be liable to all the 

 costs of the action, and for the first offense be liable to a fine of not less than ten 

 dollars nor more than one hundred dollars, and for each subsequent offense a fine of 

 not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than one hundred and fifty dollars. On 

 complaint being entered, the board of pharmacy is hereby empowered to employ an 

 analyst or chemist, whose duty it shall be to examine into the so-called adultera- 

 tion, substitution, or alteration, and report upon the result of his investigation; 

 and if said report shall be deemed to justify such action, the board shall duly cause 

 the prosecution of the offender, as provided in this act. 



SEC. 12. The senior pharmacist of every house dispensing and compounding medi- 

 cines, registered under this act, shall be exempt and free from all jury duty in the 

 courts of this State. 



SEC. 13. All acts and parts of acts in conflict with the provisions of this act are 

 hereby repealed. 



Approved June 2. 1885. 



NOTE. Section 10 in this act is the amended section, entitled an "Act to amend 

 section 10," etc. Approved June 18, 1887. 



MmiSTESOTA. 



Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Minnesota: 



" SECTION 1. That except as in this act provided, it shall hereafter be unlawful for 

 any person to retail, compound, or dispense drugs, medicines, or poisons, or to insti- 

 tute or conduct any pharmacy, store, or shop for retailing, compounding, or dispens- 

 ing drugs, medicines, or poisons, unless such person shall be a registered pharmacist, 

 or shall employ, place, and keep in active charge and control of said pharmacy, store, 

 or shop a registered pharmacist, within the full meaning of this act." (As amended 

 in 1891.) 



SEC. 2. To be entitled to registration as a pharmacist within the full meaning of 

 this act the applicant must be a graduate in pharmacy, or a graduate in medicine, 

 within the requirements of this act, or he must be not less than twenty-one (21) 

 years of age, and have had four (4) years' practical experience in drug stores where 

 prescriptions of medical practitioners have been usually compounded, and have 

 sustained a satisfactory examination before the board of pharmacy of the State of 

 Minnesota, or he must be at the time of the passage of this act a registered 

 assistant. 



Nothing in this section contained shall impair the validity of any registration 

 heretofore granted by said board. But notwithstanding anything in this section 

 hereinbefore contained, any person who was on the 5th day of March, 1885, entitled 

 to registration as a registered pharmacist, and who is at the time of the passage of 

 this act engaged in the business of a dispensing pharmacist in the State of Minne- 

 sota, and who shall within thirty (30) days after the passage of this act file with 

 the secretary of said board an application for registration, accompanied with his 

 affidavit that he was on the 5th day of March aforesaid, as well as at the time of the 

 passage of this act, so engaged, shall be granted a certificate of registration without 

 examination. (As amended in 1891.) 



SEC. 3. A graduate in pharmacy or in medicine must, in order to be so registered, 

 have had four (4) years' practical experience in drug stores where prescriptions of 

 medical practitioners have been usually compounded and have a diploma from a col- 

 lege or school of pharmacy or medicine satisfactory to said board of pharmacy, as 

 sufficient guarantee of his attainments and proficiency, or he shall be legally enti- 

 tled to practice medicine in the State of Minnesota. (As amended in 1891.) 



SEC. 4. The said board of pharmacy may, at their discretion, grant registration 

 and a certificate thereof to any pharmacist licensed or registered by the board of 

 pharmacy of any other State, either after or without further examination. It shall 

 be the duty of said board to grant an assistant's certificate to any person not less 



