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SEC. 2017. Graduates of pharmacy, with in the moaning of this title, shall be those 

 persons who have had at least four years' experience in stores where prescriptions of 

 medical practitioners have been compounded, and who have obtained a diploma 

 from any college of pharmacy within the United States, or from some authorized 

 foreign institution or examining board; and licentiates in pharmacy shall be those 

 persons who have had at least four years' experience in stores where prescriptions 

 of medical practitioners are compounded, and who shall have passed an examination 

 either before the board for the examination of and licensing druggists and prescrip- 

 tion clerks in the city of New York, established by an act passed March twenty- 

 eight, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, or before the board of phar- 

 macy created by chapter eight hundred and seventeen of the laws of eighteen hun- 

 dred and seventy-two, and continued by this title, or such foreign pharmacists as 

 shall present satisfactory credentials or certificates of their competency and qualifica- 

 tions to the said board of pharmacy. Junior assistants or apprentices in pharmacy 

 shall not be permitted to prepare physicians' prescriptions until they have become 

 graduates or licentiates in pharmacy. 



SEC. 2018. The members of the College of Pharmacy of the City of New York shall, 

 on the first Monday of April, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-four, and on 

 the same day every third year thereafter, at a special meeting held for that purpose, 

 elect five competent pharmacists, three of whom shall !>< graduates of some legally 

 constituted medical college, and the remaining two graduates of some legally consti- 

 tuted college of pharmacy of the city of New York, and who shall form and be known 

 as the board of pharmacy. The members of this board shall, within thirty days 

 after their election as aforesaid, individually take and subscribe, before the clerk of 

 the county of New York, an oath faithfully and impartially to discharge the duties 

 prescribed for them by this title. Tln-y shall hold office for the term of three years 

 and until their successors are duly elected and <|iialiiird; and in case of any vacancy, 

 the trustees of the College of Pharmacy shall lill the same from two or more nominees 

 elected at a special meeting of the college of pharmacy. The said board shall organ- 

 ize for the transaction of business by the election, by them, from tljeir number, for 

 the whole term, of a president and secretary. The board shall meet at least once 

 every three months, and three members shall constitute a quorum. The duties of 

 the said board shall be to transact all business pertaining to the legal regulation of 

 the practice of pharmacy in the city of New York, and to examine and register 

 pharmacists. Any pharmacist applying for examination shall pay to the secretary 

 a fee of five dollars, and should he pass such examination satisfactorily he shall be 

 furnished with a certificate as to his competency and qualifiation, signed by the said 

 board of pharmacy. 



SEC. 2019. It shall be the duty of the secretary to keep a book of registration at 

 some convenient place, of which due notice shall be given through the public press, 

 in which book shall be entered, under the supervision of the said board, the names 

 and places of business of all persons coming under the provisions of this title. It 

 shall be the duty of all such persons to appear before the said board of registration 

 and the fee for the registration of pharmacists shall not exceed two dollars, and for 

 assistants shall not exceed one dollar. The secretary shall give receipts for all 

 moneys received by him, and pay over the same to the treasurer of the College of 

 Pharmacy aforesaid, taking his receipt therefor, which moneys shall be used for the 

 purpose of defraying the expenses of the board of pharmacy, and any surplus shall 

 be for the benefit of the College of Pharmacy. The salary of the secretary shall be 

 fixed by the board, and shall be paid out of the registration fees. 



SEC. 2020. Every registered pharmacist 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 the original packages of the manufacturer, and also those known as 

 "patent medicines," and should he knowingly, intentionally, and fraudulently adul- 

 terate, or cause to be adulterated, such drugs, chemicals, or medical preparations, 

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



