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CHAPTER 131. OF MEDICINES AND POISONS. 



SECTION 1. No person, unless a registered pharmacist or registered assistant phaiv 

 macist in the employ of a registered pharmacist, or unless acting as au aid under the 

 immediate supervision of a registered pharmacist or a registered assistant pharma- 

 cist, within the meaning of this chapter, shall retail, compound, or dispense medi- 

 cines or poisons, except as hereinafter provided. 



SEC. 2. Every person in order to be a registered pharmacist or a registered assist- 

 ant pharmacist, within the meaning of this chapter, shall be either a graduate in 

 pharmacy, a practising pharmacist or a practising assistant iu pharmacy. Graduates 

 in pharmacy shall be such as have obtained a diploma from a regularly incorporated 

 college of pharmacy and shall have presented satisfactory evidence of their qualifi- 

 cations to the State board of pharmacy. A practicing pharmacist shall be deemed 

 to be a person, who, on the twenty-fourth day of March, one thousand eight hundred 

 seventy-one, kept and continued thereafter to keep an open shop for compounding 

 and dispensing the prescriptions of medical practitioners and for the retailing of 

 drugs and medicines, and who shall give to the State board of pharmacy satisfactory 

 evidence of his qualifications, and shall have declared his intention in writing of 

 keeping open shop for the compounding of prescriptions and the retailing of drugs 

 and medicines, and such other persons as shall have given to the State board of phar- 

 macy satisfactory evidence of their qualifications, and shall have declared their inten- 

 tion in writing of keeping open shop for the compounding of prescriptions and the 

 retailing of drugs and medicines. A practicing assistant in pharmacy shall be 

 deemed to be a person who shall have served three years' apprenticeship in a shop 

 where the prescriptions of medical practitioners are compounded, and shall have 

 passed a satisfactory examination before the State board of pharmacy. 



SEC. 3. The State board of pharmacy shall consist of seven persons, to be appointed 

 by the governor from the registered pharmacists of the State, and shall hold office for 

 the term of three years and until their successors are appointed, and in case of vacancy 

 at any time, arising from resignation, death, or ren oval from tho State, the governor 

 may fill such vacancy from the registered pharm.-ieists of the State. Four members 

 of said board snail constitute a quorum. Said board shall organize by the election 

 of a president and secretary, both of whom shall sign all certificates and other official 

 documents. Said board shall meet twice a year, and may make by-laws and all neces- 

 sary regulations, not repugnant to law, for the proper fulfilment of their duties. The 

 presiding officer of said board may administer oaths in relation to all matters con- 

 nected with or in the administration of the duties of the board. The secretary of 

 said board shall also be registrar of pharmacists. The said board shall examine all 

 applicants for registration, shall direct the registration by the registrar of all per- 

 sons properly qualified or entitled thereto, and shall report annually to the general 

 assembly on the condition of pharmacy, together with the names of all registered 

 pharmacists and assistant pharmacists. The registrar of pharmacists shall keep a 



and medicinal preparations in the State of Pennsylvania," approved the twenty- 

 fourth day of May, anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and eighty-seven 

 which reads as follows: "Any graduate of au accredited medical college, who has 

 had not less than three years' continuous practice since the date of his diploma, and 

 who is registered as a practitioner of medicine and surgery under the act entitled 

 'An act to provide for the registration of all practitioners of medicine and surgery,' 

 approved the eighth day of June, anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and 

 eighty-one, may be registered under this act without examination, and be granted 

 a certificate which shall entitle him to conduct and carry on the retail drug or 

 apothecary business as proprietor or manager thereof, subject to fees provided in 

 sections 3 and 4 of this act," be, and the same is hereby, repealed. 





