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olina and the medical faculty of the University of South Carolina in respect to 

 the license of pharmaceutists, apothecaries, and druggists. 



SEC. 5. That every pharmaceutist, apothecary, or retail druggist who carries on 

 and conducts the business of such occupation in this State after the expiration of 

 three months from the passage of this act must have a license therefor from one of 

 the above-named boards. And any person who shall, thereafter, carry on and con- 

 duct the business of said occupations, or any of them, without such license, shall 

 be liable to indictment as for a misdemeanor, and, on conviction, subject to a fine not 

 exceeding five hundred dollars, or imprisonment not exceeding six months. 



SEC. 6. That before granting said license, except in cases hereinafter excepted, 

 each applicant therefor shall undergo an examination, by and before that board to 

 which the application is made, and of such nature as they shall require; but such 

 examination must include the reading of manuscript prescriptions and explanation 

 thereof, the discovery or detection of unusual doses of drugs, and especially poisons, 

 the recognition and distinguishing of the various roots, barks, leaves, fruits, resins, 

 and gums in common use, and the proper antidotes and mode of administration thereof 

 for the different poisons. 



SEC. 7. That no examination shall be required in case the applicant is a regular 

 graduate in medicine or pharmacy of a school that is in the "ad eundem" of the 

 University of South Carolina or the Medical College of the State of South Carolina; 

 but such an applicant shall be entitled to a license upon furnishing evidence of his 

 graduation satisfactory to either of the said boards, and upon payment of a fee of 

 five dollars for the license. That in case the applicant undergoes examination, the 

 charge for the same and granting the licenses shall not exceed ten dollars; one-half 

 of which shall go, in case the applicant was examined before the Charleston board, 

 to the Medical College of the State of South Carolina, and in case the applicant was 

 examined in the city of Columbia, to the University of South Carolina; and the bal- 

 ance in both cases to the pharmaceutical association of the State of South Carolina. 



SEC. 8. That it shall be the sole duty of the Pharmaceutical Association of the 

 State of South Carolina to establish, carry on, and preserve in a book to be kept for 

 the purpose a register of all pharmaceutists, apothecaries, and retail druggists in the 

 State, including the names of persons registered, place of business, the fact whether 

 the person registered be a graduate in medicine or pharmacy, or whether under 

 license granted on examination, and any other matter of information the said associ- 

 ation may see fit to add. 



SEC. 9. That it shall be the duty of all licensed pharmaceutists, apothecaries, and 

 retail druggists, by whichsoever of the said boards licensed, to have their names 

 registered in manner aforesaid by the pharmaceutical association of the State of 

 South Carolina, and to report annually, on or before the first day of November, of 

 each year, to the said pharmaceutical association of the State of South Carolina, 

 whether any, and if yea, what change has occurred within the then preceding year 

 as to their respective places of business; and for omission or neglect of the require- 

 ments of this section, or any of them, they shall, respectively, incur a fine of twenty- 

 five dollars; and for each and every registration or change thereof, the party so 

 registered shall pay to the secretary of said association the sum of one dollar, which 

 shall be their compensation for the services performed, in accordance with the pro- 

 visions of this act. 



SEC. 10. That it shall be the duty of the pharmaceutical association of the State 

 of South Carolina to make a correct report to the general assembly of work done by 

 them, in accordance with the provisions of this act, on or before the first day in 

 December in each year. 



SEC. 11. That every pharmaceutist, or other person selling any poison, shall be 

 satisfied that the purchase is made for legitimate purposes, and shall keep a book in 

 which shall be recorded every sale of the following articles, viz : Arsenic and its 

 preparations, all metallic cyanides, and cyanides of potassium, tartar emetic, cor- 

 rosive sublimate, aconite and its preparations, strychnine, and all other poisonous 



