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SEC. 5. Assistants who have hc?d :i certificate of registration in this State for two 

 consecutive years may, upon application to the board of examiners, be granted a 

 certificate as a registered pharmacist by paying a fee of three dollars: Provided, 

 That the applicant has been continually in the practice of pharmacy for two year s 

 next preceding his registration as an assistant. 



SEC. 6. Every registered pharmacist who desires to' continue the practice of his 

 profession shall annually after the expiration of the first year of his registration 

 during the time he shall continue in such practice, on or^efore the 24th day of 

 March of each year, pay to the said board a registration fee of two dollars ($2.00), 

 for which he shall receive a renewal of said registration. Every person receiving a 

 certificate under this act shall keep the same conspicuously exposed in his place of 

 business. Every registered pharmacist shall, after changing his place of business 

 or employment, as designated by his certificate, notify the secretary of the board 

 of his new place of business. If any pharmacist shall fail or neglect to procure his 

 annual registration or comply with the other provisions of this section, his right 

 to act as such pharmacist shall cease at the expiration of ten days from the time of 

 notice of such failure to comply with the provisions of this section shall have been 

 mailed to him by the secretary of said board, and such pharmacist shall be barred 

 from the practice of pharmacy until he shall have made application and passed the 

 examination provided for in section 4 of this act. 



SEC. 7. Any registration obtained through false representations shall be void, and 

 the board of pharmacy may hear complaints and evidence and may revoke such cer- 

 tificates as it may deem improperly held. 



SEC. 8. Any proprietor of a pharmacy who, not being a registered pharmacist, or 

 anv such proprietor who shall, by himself or any person, permit the compounding 

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

 store or place of business, except by or in tin- presence of or in and under the super- 

 vision of a registered pharmacist; who shall retail, <-omi>oiind, or dispense drugs, poi- 

 sons, or medicines of any kind, or any person violating any provisions of this act to 

 which no other penalty is herein attached, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, 

 and for every such offense, and upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine 

 of not less than ten dollars nor more than $100,000, [$100?] or shall be imprisoned 

 not less than ten days nor more than ninety days : Provided, That nothing in this 

 act shall be construed so as to prohibit a registered pharmacist from taking an 

 apprentice to learn the business of pharmacy. 



SEC. 9. Nothing in this act shall prevent any wholesale or retail dealers in any 

 business from selling any patent or proprietary medicines, nor any resident registered 

 physician from dispensing his own medicines on his own prescriptions. 



SEC. 10. No person shall add to or remove from any drug, medicine, chemical, or 

 pharmaceutical preparation any ingredient or material for the purpose of adultera- 

 tion or substitution which shall deteriorate the quality, value, or medical effect, or 

 which shall alter the nature or composition of such drug, medicine, chemical, or 

 pharmaceutical preparation, so that it will not correspond to the recognized tests of 

 identity or purity. Any person who shall thus willfully adulterate or alter, or cause 

 to be adulterated or altered, or shall offer for sale any such drug, medicine, chemical, 

 or pharmaceutical preparation, or any person who shall substitute or cause to be 

 substituted one material for another, with the intention to defraud or deceive the 

 purchaser, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and 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 ($10.00) or more than one hun- 

 dred dollars ($100.00), end for each subsequent offense a fine of not less than twenty- 

 five dollars ($25.00) or more than one hundred dollars ($100.00). 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 adulteration, substitu- 

 tion, or alteration and report upon the result of his investigation, and if the said 



