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*SEC. 12. Any person not being or not having in his employ a registered pharmacist 

 within the full meaning of this [act], who shall retail, compound, or dispense medi- 

 cines, or who shall take, use, or exhibit the title of a registered pharmacist shall be 

 deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall, for each and every offense, 

 be liable to a penalty not to exceed fifty (50) dollars. Any registered pharmacist or 

 other person who shall permit the compounding and dispensing of prescriptions or the 

 vending of drugs, medicines, or poisons in his store or place of business except under 

 the supervision of a registered pharmacist, or any pharmacist who, while continuing 

 business, shall fail or neglect to procure his annual registration, or any person who 

 shall willfully make any false representation to procure registration for himself or 

 any other person, or who shall violate any other provision of this act shall be 

 deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall, for each and every offense, 

 be liable to a penalty not to exceed fifty (50) dollars : Provided^Th'dt nothing in this act 

 shall in any manner interfere with the business of any physician in regular practice, 

 nor prevent him from supplying his patients with such articles as may seem to him 

 proper, nor prevent him from receiving a certificate as a registered pharmacist upon 

 his pro<fcicing a statement from the North Dakota board of medical examiners that 

 he has answered at least 70 per cent of the questions asked at their examination in 

 chemistry, pharmacy, and materia medica: Provided, further, That physicians regis- 

 tered on account of residence in the State be registered as "registered pharmacists" 

 on presentation of their certificate from the North Dakota medical board ; nor with 

 the making of proprietary medicines or medicines placed in sealed packages with the 

 name of the contents and the pharmacist or physician by whom prepared or com- 

 pounded; nor prevent shopkeepers from dealing in and selling the commonly-used 

 medicines and poisons, if such medicines are put up by a registered pharmacist, or 

 from dealing in and selling of patent or proprietary medicines, nor with the exclusive 

 wholesale business of any dealers. 



SEC. 13. Every proprietor or conductor of a drug store shall be held responsible 

 for the quality of all drugs, chemicals, and medicines sold or dispensed by him 

 except those sold in the original packages of the manufacturer and except those 

 articles or preparations known as patent or proprietary medicines. Any person who 

 shall knowingly, willfully, or fraudulently falsify or adulterate, or cause to be falsified 

 or adulterated, any drug or medical substance, or any preparation authorized or 

 recognized by any standard work on pharmacy, or used or intended to be used in 

 medical practice, or shall mix or cause to be mixed with any such drug or medicinal 

 substance any foreign or inert substance whatsoever for the purpose of destroying 

 or weakening its medicinal power and effect, or of lessening its cost, and shall will- 

 fully, knowingly, or fraudulently sell, or cause the same to be sold for medicinal 



pounding and dispensing of prescriptions or the vending of drugs, medicines, or 

 poisons in his store or place of business except under the supervision of a registered 

 pharmacist, or any pharmacist who, while continuing business, shall fail or neglect 

 to procure his annual registration, or any person who shall wilfully make any false 

 representation to procure registration for himself or any other person, or who shall 

 violate any other provision of this act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, 

 upon conviction shall, for each and every offense, be liable to a penalty not to exceed 

 fifty (50) dollars: Provided, That nothing in this act shall in any manner interfere 

 with the business of any physician in regular practice, n.or prevent him from sup- 

 plying his patients with such articles as may seem proper, nor with the making of 

 proprietary medicines or medicines placed in sealed packages with the name of the 

 contents and the pharmacist or physician by whom prepared or compounded ; nor 

 prevent shopkeepers from dealing in and selling the commonly used medicines and 

 poisons, if such medicines are put up by a registered pharmacist, or from dealing in 

 and selling patent or proprietary medicines, nor with the exclusive wholesale busi- 

 ness of any dealers. 

 Approved, March 6, 1893. 



