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with the name of the article and directions for its use on each bottle or box, or 

 with the exclusively wholesale business of any dealer. 



SEC. 2. The executive committee of the Tennessee State druggists' association 

 shall, immediately upon the passage of this act, submit to the governor the names 

 often persons, residents of this State, who have had at least ten years' experience 

 as pharmacists and druggists, and from the names so submitted to him the governor 

 may select and appoint five persons ^ ho shall constitute a board to be styled The 

 Tennessee board of pharmacy ; and any member of the board may be removed by 

 the governor for good cause shown him. One member of said board shall be 

 appointed and hold his office one year, one for two years, one for three years, one 

 for four years, and one for live years, and until their successors shall be appointed 

 and qualified; aud at its regular annual meeting in each and every year thereafter 

 the said Tennessee State druggists' association shall select and submit to the gov- 

 ernor the names of five persons, with the qualification hereinbefore mentioned, and 

 the governor shall select and appoint from the names so submitted, or other qualified 

 persons, one member of said board, who shall hold his office for five years, and until 

 his successor shall have been appointed and qualified. Any vacancy that may occur 

 in said board shall be filled for the unexpired term by the governor upon the 

 recommendation of the remaining members of the board. Each member of said 

 board shall, within ten days after his appointment, take and subscribe an oath or 

 affirmation before a competent officer to faithfully and impartially perform the 

 duties of his office. 



SEC. 3. The Tennessee board of pharmacy shall hold one regular meeting each 

 year at Nashville, and such additional meetings at such times und places as may be 

 determined upon by said board, at each of which meetings it shall transact such 

 business as is required by law; said board shall make such rules, by-laws, and regu- 

 lations as may be necessary for the proper discharge of its duties, and shall make 

 a report of proceedings, including an itcmi/ed account of all moneys received and 

 expended by said board, pursuant to this act, aud a list of the naniesof all the phar- 

 macists duly registered under this art to the secretary of state on or before the 15th 

 day of November, . and annually thereafter, and to the Tennessee State drug- 

 gists' association. Said board shall keep a book of registration open at some place 

 in Nashville, of which due notice shall be given in three or more newspapers of gen- 

 eral circulation in the State, in which the name and place of business of every per- 

 son duly qualified under this act to conduct or engage in the business mentioned and 

 described in section 1 shall be registered. Every person now conducting or engaged 

 in such business in this State as proprietor or manager of the same, or who, being of 

 the age of 21 years, has been employed or engaged for five years preceding the pas- 

 sage of this act as an assistant in any retail drug store in the United States in the 

 compounding and dispensing of medicines on the prescription* of physicians, who 

 shall furnish satisfactory evidence in writing and under oath of such facts within 

 three months after the publication of said notice, shall be registered as a pharmacist 

 without examination. Every person who has attained the age of 18 years, and who 

 has been continually engaged in the United States for three years prior to the pas- 

 sage of this act, who shall present satisfactory evidence of the same within three 

 months after the publication of said notice, shall be registered as an assistant phar- 

 macist without examination. Every person who shall desire hereafter to conduct 

 or engage in such business in this State shall appear before said board and be reg- 

 istered within ten days after receiving a certificate of competency and qualification 

 of said board. The said board shall demand and receive from each person registered 

 as a pharmacist a fee of not exceeding $2, and for a certificate as assistant pharma- 

 cist a fee of not exceeding $1, to be applied to the payment of expenses arising 

 under the provisions of this act. Every registered pharmacist or assistant pharma- 

 cist who desires to continue the practice of his profession shall annually thereafter 

 during the time he shall continue in such practice, on such date as said board may 

 determine, pay to the secretary of said board a registration fee, to be fixed by said 



