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other person authorized to administer an oath or affirmation in the county in which 

 the applicant resides. 



The form of application shall be subject to such regulations as the board may see 

 proper to adopt, but in no case shall the applicant be put to any unnecessary 

 expense in order to secure registration. 



SEC. 4. The said board shall be entitled to demand and receive from each appli- 

 cant for examination and registration and for the certificate hereinafter provided a 

 fee not to exceed two dollars, and for registration only a fee not to exceed one dol- 

 lar in the first instance, and for renewing the same every three years a fee not to 

 exceed one dollar; and the amount derived from this source shall be held by said 

 board and be applied to the expenses and salaries herein provided and such as may 

 arise under the provisions of this act, and they, the said board, shall report annu- 

 ally to the governor of the State of Pennsylvania all moneys received and disbursed 

 under the provisions of this act, together with the number of pharmacists regis- 

 tered under this act. 



SBC. 5. That it shall be the duty of said board to meet at least once every three 

 months in the city of Harrisburg, or at such other place as they may deem expe- 

 dient, and examine all persons who shall desire to carry on the business of a retail 

 apothecary, or that of retailing drugs, chemicals, or poisons, or of compounding phy- 

 sicians' prescriptions, touching their competency and qualifications, and they, the 

 said board, or a majority of them shall grant tosueh persons as may be qualified certifi- 

 cates of competency or qualification, which shall entitle the holders thereof either 

 to conduct or carry on the business or to act as a qualified assistant therein, as may 

 be expressed upon the said certificate, and such certificate, together \vith its renew- 

 als, shall be good and sufficient evidence of registration under this act. 



All persons applying for examination for certificate to entitle them to conduct and 

 carry on the retail drug or apothecary business must produce satisfactory evidence 

 of having had not less than tour years' practical experience in the business. And 

 those applying for examination for certificates as qualified assistants therein must 

 produce evidence of having not less than two years' experience in said business. 



SEC. 6. That no person shall hen-a 1 1 ci engage as manager in thebusiness of an apothe- 

 cary or pharmacist, or of retailing drugs, chemicals, and poisons, or of compounding 

 and dispensing the prescriptions of physicians, either directly or indirectly, with- 

 out having obtained such certificate as aforesaid. But nothing contained in this 

 act shall in any manner whatever interfere with the business of any practitioner of 

 medicine, nor prevent him from administering or supplying to his patients such 

 articles as to him may seem fit and proper, nor shall it interfere with the making 

 and dealing in proprietary remedies, popularly called patent medicines, nor prevent 

 storekeepers from dealing in and selling the commonly used medicines and poisons, 

 if such medicines and poisons conform in all respects to the requirements of section 

 9, provided the provisions of section 10 of this act be fully complied with. 



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 pun- 

 ished by a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars, or be imprisoned in the county 

 jail of the proper county for a term not exceeding one year, or either or both, at the 

 discretion of the court. 



SEC. 7. That the foregoing provisions of this act shall not apply to or affect any 

 person who shall be engaged in the retail drug and apothecary business as proprietor 

 of the same, or as qualified assistant therein at the passage of this act, except only 

 in so far as relates to registration and fees provided in sections 3 and 4 of this act. 



A qualified assistant, engaged in the business at the passage of this act, is one 

 who has had not less than two years' practical experience in the retail drug and 

 apothecary business. All other assistants actually engaged in the business at the 

 passage of this act shall, upon the completion of a like term of two years' experience,, 

 be entitled to registration as qualified assistants without examination. 



