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MISSISSIPPI. 



1. Duty to obtain license. Every person who desires to practice pharmaceutics 

 must obtain license to do so, as hereinafter provided. 



2. Board of examiners created. The board of pharmaceutical examiners is hereby 

 created, to consist of five (5) practicing pharmacists, who shall be appointed by the 

 governor and whose term of office shall expire with that of the governor appoint- 

 ing them. 



3. Oath of examiners. Each person appointed as a member of the board of phar- 

 maceutical examiners shall qualify by taking the oath prescribed by the constitu- 

 tion of the State officers, and shall file a certificate thereof in the office of the secre- 

 tary of the State within fifteen (15) days of his appointment. 



4. Organization of examiners. After the members of the board of pharmaceutical 

 examiners have qualified, they shall meet at the capitol of the State in pursuance of 

 a call to be made by the governor, and organize by electing a president and secre- 

 tary of the board, from amongst themselves. 



5. License for examination. Every person who desires to practice pharmaceutics 

 must apply in writing to the board of pharmaceutical examiners for a license to do 

 so, and unless exempted by the provision of the chapter, must appear before the 

 board and be examined by it, touching his learning and skill in pharmaceutics, and 

 if he be found to possess sufficent learning and skill therein, and be of good moral 

 character, the board shall immediately issue to him a license to practice pharmaceu- 

 tics, which shall be signed by each member of the board who attends the examina- 

 tion and approve of the issuing of the license. 



6. Examination : When, where, and hoiv conducted. The board of pharmaceutical 

 examiners shall meet at the capitol of the State on the first Tuesday in April of each 

 year, for the purpose of examining applicants for license, and shall remain in session 

 until all applicants for such license have been approved or disapproved. All exami- 

 nations, except as to character, shall be by and upon written questions and answers, 

 and three (3) members of the board is a quorum for business. 



7. Fee for examination. Applicants for license who require to be examined touch- 

 ing their learning and skill in pharmaceutics must each pay a fee of five (5) dollars 

 to the board of pharmaceutical examiners, as a condition precedent to the examina- 

 tion, which fee shall be distributed among the members of the board as their com- 

 pensation in such proportion as the board may allow. 



8. License to existing practitioners of pharmaceutics. Each person now engaged 

 in the practice of pharmaceutics in this State is entitled to a license therefor with- 

 out being examined touching his learning or skill, if he shall apply therefor within 

 six (6) months after this law becomes operative, and shall pay twenty-five (25) cents 

 for each issuance; if such application be made within time prescribed, and the 

 twenty-five cents be paid, the secretary of the board of examiners shall issue to the 

 applicant a license to practice pharmaceutics, which shall be signed in the name of 

 the board by him as secretary. 



9. Temporary license. Any member of the board of pharmaceutical examiners 

 may examine applicants orally or in writing, and issue a temporary license to him 

 to practice pharmaceutics, which shall authorize such practice and develop until the 

 next succeeding meeting of the board ; but only one temporary license shall be issued 

 to the same applicant. 



10. License must be recorded. Every person who receives a license to practice 

 pharmaceutics must file it for record in the office of the clerk of the circuit court of 

 the county in which he resides within thirty days after its issuance, and if he fails 

 to do so he shall thereafter be liable for practicing pharmacy without license, so long 

 as the same shall remain unrecorded. When such license shall be filed the clerk 

 shall record the same in the book in which the license of physicians are recorded, 

 upon the payment to him of the lawful fee, and when recorded the original shall be 

 delivered on demand of the license. 



