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OKLAHOMA. 



CHAPTER LXI. PPIARMACY. 



AN ACT to regulate the practice of pharmacy in the Territory of Oklahoma and providing penalties 



for the violation of the same. 



[Took eftect Decemher 25, 1890 ; amended March 14, 1893.] 

 Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Oklahoma: 



(3624) SECTION 1. That it shall be unlawful for any person, unless a qualified 

 pharmacist within the meaning of this act, to open or conduct any pharmacy, or for 

 any one not a qualified pharmacist to prepare physicians' prescriptions or compound 

 medicines except under direct supervision of a qualified pharmacist, as hereinafter 

 provided. 



(3625) SEC. 2. Any person, in order to be qualified, shall be twenty-one years old, 

 and shall have passed a satisfactory examination before the board of pharmacy of 

 Oklahoma Territory, or shall be a graduate in pharmacy as hereinafter provided.* 



(3626) SEC. 3. Graduates in pharmacy within the meaning of this act shall be such 

 as have obtained a diploma from a recognized college of pharmacy. 



(3627) SEC. 4. Assistants in pharmacy must be eighteen years old, and haVe had 

 two years' experience in stores where prescriptions of medical practitioners have 

 been prepared, -and shall have passed a satisfactory examination before the board 

 of pharmacy of Oklahoma Territory. 



(3628) SEC. 5. Within thirty days after the approval of this act the governor shall 

 appoint a board of pharmaceutical examiners, who shall hold their offices for one 

 two, and three years, respectively, which appointments shall be in writing and 

 signed by the governor and secretary of the Territory, and delivered to the per- 

 sons appointed. Said board of pharmacy shall be composed of three qualified 

 pharmacists, who are residents of the Territory, no two of whom shall be residents 

 of the same county, and who shall have had at least five years' experience in the 

 actual practice of pharmacy, which three are to be selected from ten names recom- 

 mended by the Oklahoma pharmaceutical association. If a vacancy occur in said 

 board, another shall be appointed as aforesaid to fill the unexpired term. At the 

 expiration of each term of office of a member, the governor shall appoint his suc- 

 cessor, who shall hold his office for three years. Said board shall have power to 

 make by-laws and all necessary regulations consistent with the provisions of this 

 act, for the proper fulfillment of their duties.* 



(3629) SEC. 6. The board shall meet four times a year, to wit, on the first Tues- 

 day in the months of January, April, July, and October. The board shall organize 

 by electing a president, secretary, and treasurer, who shall hold their respective 

 offices for one year, and until their successors are elected. The duties of said board 

 shall be to examine all applicants for registration and to direct the registration, by 

 the secretary of all persons properly qualified or entitled thereto.* 



(3630) SEC. 7. The members of the board of pharmacy shall receive as compensa- 

 tion for their services five dollars a day and necessary expenses for each day actually 

 employed at meetings of said board, to be paid out of the Territorial treasury: Pro- 

 vided, Such compensation and expenses shall at each meeting of the board not exceed 

 the amount received by said board for examinations and certificates at such meeting. 



(3631) SEC. 8. It shall be the duty of the secretary of the board of pharmacy to 

 keep a book in which shall be entered under the supervision of the board of phar- 

 macy the name and place of business of every person who shall apply for registra- 

 tion, and a statemenf signed by the person making the application of such facts as 

 he or she may claim to justify his or her application. It shall also be the duty of 

 the secretary to duly note the fact against the name of any qualified pharmacist 

 who may have died, or removed from the Territory, or disposed of or relinquished 



* Act March 14, 1893. 



