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pharmacy for retailing, dispensing, or compounding drugs, medicines, or poisons, or 

 for any one not a registered pharmacist to prepare and dispense physicians' prescrip- 

 tions, or to retail or dispense medicines or poisons, except under the immediate 

 supervision of a registered pharmacist. 



SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That on or before the first day of June next the New 

 Jersey pharmaceutical association shall submit to the governor the names of fifteen 

 pharmacists doing business within this State, from which number the governor shall 

 appoint five persons, who shall constitute the board of pharmacy of the State of New 

 Jersey, and who shall hold office for the terms of one, two, three, four, and five 

 years, as designated in their respective appointments, and until their successors 

 shall have been appointed and qualified. The New Jersey pharmaceutical association 

 shall annually thereafter nominate to the governor five pharmacists, of whom the 

 governor shall appoint one to fill the vacancy annually occurring in the said board, 

 who shall hold office for five years and until his successor shall have been appointed 

 and qualified. Any vacancy occurring in said board shall be filled by the governor 

 for the unexpired term from among the persons last nominated to him. Each person 

 so appointed shall, within thirty days after appointment, take and subscribe an oath, 

 before any officer authorized to administer oaths in the State, that he will faithfully 

 and impartially discharge the duties prescribed by this act. 



SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the board of pharmacy shall organize by electing a 

 president, a secretary, and a treasurer, and shall have power to make by-laws and 

 rules for the proper fulfillment of its duties under this act; it shall meet at least 

 once in three months alternately in the cities of Patersou, Newark, Trenton, and 

 Camden, and shall give thirty days' notice of the time and place of such meetings; it 

 shall examine into all applications for registration, and grant certificates of registra- 

 tion topharmacistshaving diplomas from colleges of pharmacy, or regularly chartered 

 medical colleges, granted on four years' practical experience, and to such other persons 

 as it shall j udge, on examination, to be properly qualified to practice pharmacy ; it shall 

 keep a book of registration, in which shall be entered the names and places of business 

 of all persons registered under this act, and shall also keep a book of record of all its 

 official transactions, which book shall be legal evidence of such transactions in any 

 court of law ; it shall have power to examine into all cases of alleged abuses, fraud, 

 and incompetence, cause the prosecution of all persons not complying with the pro- 

 visions of this act, and suspend and revoke the registration of any person legally con- 

 victed of violating the same; it shall report annually to the governor and to the 

 president of the New Jersey pharmaceutical association upon the condition of 

 pharmacy in the State, which report shall embrace a detailed statement of the 

 receipts and expenditures of the board; the members of such board shall receive 

 the sum of five dollars for each day actually engaged in this service, to be paid 

 from the fees and penalties collected under the provisions of this act, and all moneys 

 thus collected by said board in excess of said per diem allowance and of the neces- 

 sary expense of said board, shall be paid to the treasurer of the New Jersey phar- 

 maceutical association at its annual meeting; three members of the board shall 

 constitute a quorum. 



SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That every person applying for registration under this 

 act shall furnish satisfactory evidence that he has had at least four years' experi- 

 ence in the practice of pharmacy, and pay to the treasurer of the board of phar- 

 macy a fee of five dollars, and, upon passing an examination satisfactory to said 

 board, he shall receive from said board a certificate of registration; in case of fail- 

 ure to pass a satisfactory examination, the applicant shall be granted a second exam- 

 ination (without the payment of another fee) at any time within six months from 

 his first examination; the registration fee to pharmacists having the diplomas men- 

 tioned in section three shall be two dollars; every pharmacist owning or conducting 

 a pharmacy or store shall conspicuously display his certificate of registration in said 

 pharmacy or store, and any failure to do so shall be prima facie evidence that such 

 person is not a registered pharmacist. 



