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SKC. 4614. Examination, liow made. The said board of pharmacy shall, upon appli- 

 cation, and at such time and place and in such manner as they may determine, exam- 

 ine each and every person who shall desire to conduct the business of selling at 

 retail, compounding or dispensing drugs, medicines, or chemicals for medicinal use, 

 or to compound and dispense physicians' prescriptions as pharmacists, and if a 

 majority of said board shall be satisfied that said person is competent and fully 

 qualified to conduct said business of compounding or dispensing drugs, medicines, 

 or chemicals for medicinal use, or to compound and dispense physicians' prescrip- 

 tions, they shall enter the name of such person as a registered pharmacist in the 

 book provided for in the preceding section; and that all graduates in pharmacy hav- 

 ing a diploma from an incorporated college or school of pharmacy, that requires a 

 practical experience in pharmacy of not less than four years before granting diplo- 

 mas, shall be entitled to have their names registered as pharmacists by said board 

 without examination: Provided, That any person not a pharmacist or druggist may 

 own or conduct such store, if he or they keep constantly in his or their employ a 

 competent pharmacist or druggist. (Laws, 1881, p. 130, amended.) 



SEC. 4615. Fees for registration. The board of pharmacy shall be entitled to 

 demand and receive, from each person whom they register and furnish a certificate 

 as a registered pharmacist without examination, the sum of one dollar; and for each 

 and every person whom they examine orally, or whose answers to a schedule of ques- 

 tions are returned subscril eu to under oath, the sum of three dollars, which shall 

 be in full for all services; ;md in case the examination of said person shall prove 

 defective ^Bd unsatisfactory, and his name not be registered, he shall be permitted 

 to present himself for re" lamination within any period not exceeding twelve 

 months thereafter, and no large shall be made for such reexamination. (Laws, 

 1881, p. 131.) 



SEC. 4616. Druggist responsible for quality of drugs, etc. Every registered phar- 

 macist, apothecary, or owner of any drug store shall be held responsible for the 

 quality of all drugs, chemicals, and medicines he may sell or dispense, with the 

 exception of those sold in original packages of the manufacturer, and also those 

 known as " patent medicines," and should he knowingly, intentionally, and fraudu- 

 lently adulterate, or cause to be adulterated, such drugs, chemicals, or medical prepa- 

 rations, he shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, 

 be liable to a penalty not exceeding one hundred dollars, and, in addition thereto, 

 have his name stricken from the register. (Laws, 1881, p. 131.) 



SEC. 4617. Druggists can sell, what. Apothecaries, registered as herein provided, 

 shall have the right to keep and sell, under such restrictions as herein provided, all 

 medicines and poisons authorized by the National American or United States Phar- 

 macopoeia as of recognized medical utility, except intoxicating liquors, which 

 shall only be sold by druggists and pharmacists as prescribed by section 4621 of this 

 chapter. (Laws, 1881, p. 131, amended. Laws, 1883, p. 89, amended.) 



SEC. 4618. Selling poisons; conditions, etc.; penalty. It shall be unlawful for any per- 

 son to retail any poisons enumerated in schedules <; A" and "B," except as follows: 

 Schedule "A" Arsenic and its preparations, biuiodide of mercury, cyanide of po- 

 tassium, hydrocyanic acid, strychnia, and all other poisonous vegetable alkaloids 

 and their salts, and the essential oil of bitter almonds. Schedule "B" Opium and 

 its preparations, except paregoric and other preparations of opium containing less 

 than two grains to the ounce; aconite, belladonna, colchicum, coniuin, nux vomica, 

 henbane, savin, ergot, cotton root, cantharides, creosote, veratrum, digitalis, and 

 their pharmaceutical preparations, croton oil, chloroform, chloral hydrate, sulphate 

 of zinc, corrosive sublimate, red precipitate, white precipitate, mineral acids, car- 

 bolic acid, oxalic acid, without labeling the box, vessel, or paper in which the said 

 poison is contained, and also the outside wrapper or cover, with the name of the 

 article, the word " poison," and the name and place of business of the seller. Nor 

 shall it be lawful for any person to sell or deliver any poisons enumerated in 

 schedules " A" and "B ; " unless upon due inquiry it be found that the purchaser is 



