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CHAPTER 58, REVISED STATUTES OF MISSOURI, 1889, SECTIONS 4610-4625, INCLUSIVE. 



SECTION 4610. Druggist must be registered. It shall be unlawful for any person 

 not a registered pharmacist within the meaning of this chapter, to conduct any 

 pharmacy, drug store, apothecary shop or store, for the purpose of retailing, com- 

 pounding or dispensing, medicine or poisons for medical use, except as hereinafter 

 provided. (Laws, .1881, p. 130.) 



SEC. 4611. Registered pharmacist to compound, etc.; physicians may register; pen- 

 alty. It shall be unlawful for the proprietor of any store or pharmacy to allow any 

 person, except a registered pharmacist, to compound or dispense the prescriptions 

 of physicians, or to retail or dispense poisons for medical use, except as an aid to 

 and under the supervision of a registered pharmacist: Provided, That nothing in 

 this chapter shall be construed to require any physician duly authorized to practice 

 medicine in this State to submit to an examination as a condition precedent to a 

 license as a pharmacist, but that the same shall be issued upon the presentation of 

 his diploma as a physician. Any person violating the provisions of this section 

 shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be liable 

 to a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than one hundred dollars for 

 each and every offense. (Laws, 1881, p. 130, amended.) 



SEC. 4612. Board of pharmacy. The governor, with the approval of the senate, 

 shall appoint three persons from among the most competent pharmacists of the State, 

 not connected with any school of pharmacy, all of whom shall have bfpn residents 

 of the State for at least five years, and of at least five years' practical experience in 

 their profession, who shall be known and styled "board of pharmacy for the State 

 of Missouri," one of whom shall hold his office for one year, one for two years, and 

 one for three years, and each until his successor shall be appointed and 

 qualified; and each year thereafter another member shall be appointed for three 

 years, or until his successor be appointed and qualified. If a vacancy occur in said 

 board another shall be appointed, as aforesaid, to fill the unexpired term thereof. 

 Said board shall have power to make by-laws and all necessary regulations, and 

 create tuuxiliary boards, if necessary, for the proper fulfillment of their duties under 



this chapter, without expense to the State. (Laws, 1881, p. 130.) 



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12. Special attention is called to the amendment of section 4613 of the pharmacy law 

 enacted by our last general assembly. Said section now reads (the portion in italics 



being the amendment ) : 



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SECTION 4613. Duties of board. The board of pharmacy shall register in a suit- 

 able book, a duplicate of which shall be kept in the secretary of State's office, the 

 names and places of residence of ail persons to whom they issue certificates, and 

 dates thereof; and no person having received, or who may hereafter receive, a certificate 

 of registration as a pharmacist, shall engage in business as a pharmacist in any 

 county of this State in which he shall locate, or into which he shall afterward remove, until 

 he shall have had such certificate recorded in the office of the clerk of the county court of 

 such county, and it is hereby made the duty of such county clerk to record such certificate in 

 a book to be provided and kept for that purpose; and the county clerk is authorized to 

 charge a fee of 50 cents for the recording of each certificate, to be paid by the person 

 offering such certificate for record. Every pharmacist now holding a certificate of regis- 

 tration as a pharmacist, and being engaged in business as a pharmacist, shall have such 

 certificate recorded, as is in this section provided, within thirty days after the taking effect 

 of this act. The record of each certificate required by this act, or a certified copy thereof, 

 shall be evidence in all courts that the person holding it is a registered pharmacist. Any 

 pharmacist failing to comply with the foregoing provisions shall be deemed guilty of a mis- 

 demeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not less than $25 nor more than 

 $100. 



Approved, March 31, 1893. 



