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book in which shall be entered, under the supervision of the State board of phar- 

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

 tion. The registrar shall note the fact against the name of any registered pharmacist 

 or assistant pharmacist who may have died or removed from the State or disposed of 

 or relinquished his business, and shall make all necessary alterations in the location 

 of persons registered under this chapter. 



SEC. 4. The certificate of the secretary of the State board of pharmacy and regis- 

 trar of pharmacists as to any matter of record of said board or of the nonexistence 

 of any matter in the record of said board, as to which said secretary may be called 

 upon to testify in his official capacity, shall be admissible evidence in any court in 

 this State of the existence or uonexistence of such matter. Said secretary shall be 

 paid the sum of twenty -five cents for every such certificate, which sum shall be taxed 

 in the costs of any proceedings pending in any court in which the same shall be 

 offered as evidence. 



SEC. 5. Every person applying for examination and registration shall pay to the 

 State board of pharmacy ten dollars, and on passing the examination required shall 

 be furnished, free of expense, with a certificate of registration. Every registered 

 assistant pharmacist may, with the consent of said board, be entitled to registration 

 as a registered pharmacist and shall be furnished with a certificate of registration, 

 for which certificate he shall pay the registrar one dollar. Every certificate issued 

 by said board shall be renewed annually, for \vhich renewal one dollar shall be paid 

 to the registrar. The fees received for examinations, registration, and certificates 

 shall be appropriated to defray the expenses of the State board of pharmacy. The 

 registration of every person registered by the board shall expire on the first day of 

 July next ensuing the granting thereof; and if any person so registered shall not 

 apply for a renewal of his registration on or before the first day of July, annually, 

 the registrar of pharmacists shall note the fact against the name of such person, who 

 shall thereafter cease to be a registered pharmacist or registered assistant pharma- 

 cist. Said board may, in their discretion, refuse to renew any such registration, and 

 may at any time, for good and sufficient cause, discontinue any registration previously 

 granted. 



SEC. 6. The certificate issued by said board shall be used by the person to whom 

 issued in but one place of business ; but said board may permit such person in remov- 

 ing to another place of business to continue the use of such certificate with the same 

 force and effect as in the place for which such certificate was issued. Such person 

 removing shall notify said board of the change of his place of business, and failing 

 so to do shall cease to be a registered pharmacist. No registered pharmacist shall 

 be the proprietor of more than one place of business unless he shall at each place of 

 business of which he is the proprietor, at all times when open, keep one or more 

 registered pharmacists. 



SEC. 7. Every person, not a registered pharmacist, who shall keep open shop for 

 the retailing and dispensing of medicines and poisons, or who shall take, use, or 

 exhibit the title of registered pharmacist, and every person who shall violate any 

 of the provisions of this chapter shall, upon the first conviction, be fined fifty dol- 

 lars and, upon the second and every subsequent conviction, shall be fined one hun- 

 dred dollars; and all fines recovered shall enure, one-half thereof to the use of the 

 State and one-half thereof to the use of the complainant: Provided, however, That 

 in towns or parts of towns where there is no registered pharmacist within three 

 miles, any person may sell, the usual domestic medicines put up by a registered 

 pharmacist, and marked with his label, such person procuring annually a certifi- 

 cate from the State board of pharmacy therefor, and paying one dollar for such 

 certificate. 



SEC. 8. Nothing hereinbefore contained shall apply to any practitioner of medi- 

 cine who does not keep open shop for the retailing, dispensing, or compounding of 

 medicines or poisons, nor prevent him from administering or supplying to his 

 patients such articles as he may deem fit and proper ; nor shall it interfere with the 



