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ninety (90) (lays after this act takes effect, be entitled to a certificate as "registered 

 assistant,'' which certificate shall entitle him to continue in such duties as clerk or 

 assistant ; but shall not entitle him to engage in business on his own account. 

 Thereafter he shall pay annually to the said secretary the sum of fifty cents, during 

 the time he shall continue in such duties, in return for which sum he shall receive 

 a renewal of said certificate : Provided, Any applicant who has had seven years' 

 experience in compounding and dispensing medicines immediately prior to the pas- 

 sage of this act may receive a certificate of a " registered pharmacist." 



SEC. 9 Every person claiming registration as a registered pharmacist under this 

 act shall, before a certificate is granted, pay to the secretary of the board of phar- 

 macy the sum of two (2) dollars ; and every applicant for registration upon exami- 

 nation, whether as a pharmacist or as an assistant, shall pay to said secretary the 

 sum of five (5) dollars before such examination shall be attempted : Provided, That 

 in case the applicant fails to sustain a satisfactory examination by the said board, 

 the said five (5) dollars shall be refunded to him. Every certificate hereafter issued 

 under this act shall have plainly written, printed, or stamped upon the face thereof 

 the words : " Revocable for the causes specified by law. " (As amended in 1891.) 



SEC. 10. Every registered pharmacist and every registered assistant who desires 

 to continue the practice of his profession, shall annually during the time he shall 

 continue such practice, on such date as the board of pharmacy may prescribe, pay 

 to said secretary a registration renewal fee, the amount of which shall be fixed by 

 said board, and shall in no case exceed two (2) dollars for a pharmacist, and one (1) 

 dollar for an assistant ; in return for which payment he shall receive a renewal of 

 his registration. (As amended in 1891.) 



SEC. 11. The secretary of the board of pharmacy shall receive a salary which 

 shall be determined by said board; he shall also receive his traveling and other 

 expenses incurred in the performance of his official duties. The other members of 

 said board shall receive the sum of five dollars for each day actually engaged in sucb 

 service, and all the legitimate and necessary expenses incurred in attending the 

 meetings of said board. Said expenses shall be paid from the fees, fines, and penal- 

 ties received by said board under the provisions of this act; and no part of the 

 salary or other expenses of said board shall be paid out of the public treasury. All 

 moneys received by said board in excess of said allowances and other expenses 

 hereinbefore provided for shall be held by the secretary of said board as a special 

 fund for meeting the expenses of said board, said secretary giving such bonds as the 

 said board shall from time to time direct. The said board shall, in its annual report 

 to the governor and to the Minnesota State pharmaceutical association, render an 

 account of all moneys received and disbursed by them pursuant to this act. (As 

 amended in 1891.) 



SEC. 12. Any person not being, or not having in his employ a registered pharma- 

 cist within the full meaning of this act, who shall, after this act shall take effect, 

 retail, compound, or dispense drugs, medicines, or poisons, or who shall take, use, or 

 exhibit the title of a registered pharmacist, shall for each and every such offense be 

 liable to a penalty of fifty (50) dollars. 



Any registered pharmacist or other person who shall permit the compounding or 

 dispensing of prescriptions, or the vending of drugs, medicines, or poisons in his 

 store or place of business, except under the supervision of a registered pharmacist 

 or by a registered assistant, and any pharmacist or registered assistant who, while 

 continuing in business, shall fail or neglect to procure annual registration, and any 

 person who shall willfully make any false representation to procure registration for 

 himself or any other person, or who shall violate any other provision of this act, 

 shall, except as otherwise provided, for each and every such offense be liable to a 

 penalty of fifty (50) dollars. 



Except as in this section hereafter provided, drugs, medicines, and poisons shgll, 

 for all purposes of this act, be construed to include all substances, animal, vegetable, 



