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obtained a certificate of competency and qualification so to do from the State 

 pharmaceutical examining board and having been duly registered as herein pro- 

 vided/' shall be amended so as to read as follows: 



SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Common- 

 wealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority 

 of the same, That hereafter no person whomsoever shall open, or carry on as mana- 

 ger, in the State of Pennsylvania, any retail drug or chemical store, nor engage in 

 the business of compounding or dispensing medicines or prescriptions of physicians, 

 or of selling at retail any drags, chemicals, poisons, or medicines, without having 

 obtained a certificate of competency and qualification so to do from the State 

 pharmaceutical examining board and having been duly registered as herein pro- 

 vided, but it shall be lawful for the widow or legal representatives of a deceased 

 person who was a manager and registered pharmacist to carry on or continue the 

 business of such deceased pharmacist: Provided, That the actual retailing, dispens- 

 ing, or compounding of medicines or poisons be done only by an assistant qualified 

 and registered as herein provided. Any person who shall violate or fail to comply with 

 the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction before 

 any court shall be punished by a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars. 



Approved June 16th, 1891. 



SEC. 2. That there shall be established in the State of Pennsylvania a board, to 

 be styled the State pharmaceutical examining board, to consist of five persons, 

 three of whom shall constitute a quorum, who shall be appointed by the governor 

 from among the most skillful retail apothecaries actually engaged in said business 

 in the State of Pennsylvania, and who must have had ten years' practical experi- 

 ence in the same one to serve five years, one four years, one three years, one two 

 years, and one one year in the first instance, and thereafter annually the governor 

 shall appoint one person to serve as a member of said board for the term of five 

 years. The said persons so appointed shall be and constitute the said the State 

 pharmaceutical examining board, and shall hold the office for the term for which 

 they were appointed, or until their successors are duly appointed and qualified, aud 

 shall receive as a compensation for their services five dollars for each day actually 

 engaged in this service and all legitimate "and necessary expenses incurred in attend- 

 ing the meetings of said board under the provisions of this act, and no part of the 

 salary of said board or expenses thereof shall be paid out of the State treasury. 



The said board shall organize by electing one of its members secretary, who in 

 addition to his compensation as a member of said board shall receive a further sum, 

 not to exceed one hundred dollars annually, for his services as secretary. 



They, the said board, and each of them, shall, within ten days after their appoint- 

 ment or being apprised of the same, take and subscribe an oath or affirmatior before 

 a properly qualified officer of the county in which they reside that they will faith- 

 fully and impartially perform the duties of their office. 



Any vacancies occurring in said board shall be filled by the governor of the State 

 of Pennsylvania from among such only as are eligible for original appointment. 



SEC. 3. The said pharmaceutical examining board shall keep a book of registra- 

 tion open at some convenient place, of which due notice shall be given by advertise- 

 ment in at least four newspapers in the State, and so divided as to reach as nearly 

 as practicable all parts thereof, in which book shall be registered the name and 

 address of each and every person duly qualified under this act to conduct and carry 

 on the retail drug and apothecary business or to hold the position of qualified assist- 

 ant therein. And it shall be the duty of all persons now conducting, or who shall 

 hereafter conduct, the business of retail apothecaries, or those acting in the capac- 

 ity of qualified assistants therein in said State, to apply to said board and be reg- 

 istered as such within ninety days after such notice, and thereafter every three 

 years. Application for registration only may be sent by mail to the secretary of 

 the examining board after being properly attested before a notary public or any 



