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board, but which shall in no case exceed, if a pharmacist, $1, if assistant pharma- 

 cist, 50 cents, for which he shall receive a renewal of said registration. Every 

 certificate of registration granted under this act shall be conspicuously exposed in 

 the drug or chemical store to which it applies, or in which the assistant is engaged. 

 The secretary of said board shall receive a salary which shall be fixed by the board; 

 he shall also receive his traveling and other expenses incurred in the performance of 

 his official duties. The other members of said board shall receive the sum of $3 for 

 each day actually engaged in the service thereof, and all legitimate and necessary 

 expenses incurred in attending the meetings of said board. Said salary, per diem 

 and expenses, shall be paid after an itemized statement of the same has been rendered 

 and approved by fhe board, from the fees and penalties received by said board under 

 the provisions of this act. All moneys received in excess of said per diem allowance 

 and other expenses above provided for shall be held by the secretary as a special 

 fund for meeting the expenses of said board, he giving such bond as said board may 

 from time to time direct. 



SEC. 4. The Tennessee board of pharmacy shall examine every person who shall 

 desire to carry on or engage in the business of a retail apothecary or of retailing 

 any drugs, medicines, chemicals, poisons, or pharmaceutical preparations, or of com- 

 pounding or dispensing the prescriptions of physicians as proprietor or manager, 

 touching his competency and qualifications for that purpose and upon a majority 

 of the board being satisfied of such qualifications, and upon fche payment by the 

 applicant of an examination fee of $5, they shall furnish the person a certificate of 

 his competency and qualification as a pharmacist, which certificate shall entitle the 

 person therein named to carry on the business aforesaid as proprietor or manager 

 thereof upon complying with the requirements of section 3 ; and such board shall 

 also examine each person who desires to engage in such business as assistant phar- 

 macist touching his competency and qualification, and upon such person passing a 

 satisfactory examination, and upon the payment by tfie applicant of an examination 

 fee of $3 they shall furnish him a certificate setting forth that he is a qualified 

 assistant in pharmacy, which certificate shall enable the person therein named to 

 engage in said business as an assistant pharmacist upon his complying with section 3. 



SEC. 5. The provisions of section 4 shall not apply to any person engaged in the 

 retail drug and apothecary business as proprietor or manager of the same at the 

 time of the passage of this act, or who, being of the age of 18 years, has been contin- 

 uously employed or engaged for three years immediately preceding the passage of 

 this act as an assistant in any retail drug store in the United States in the corn- 

 pounding or dispensing of medicines on the prescriptions of physicians, who have 

 complied with the provisions of section 3. 



SEC. 6. No person not a qualified assistant shall be allowed by proprietor or man- 

 ager of a retail drug or chemical store to compound or dispense the prescriptions of 

 a physician except as an aid under the supervision of a registered pharmacist or his 

 qualified assistant. 



SEC. 7. A qualified assistant within the meaning of this act shall be a clerk or an 

 assistant in a retail drug or chemical store, who shall furnish to the Tennessee board 

 of pharmacy such evidence of his employment as required in section 3, or a person 

 holding a certificate of said board as an assistant pharmacist, as provided by section 

 4, but it shall be unlawful for an assistant pharmacist or qualified assistant to 

 supervise or manage any pharmacy or retail drug or chemical store, or to engage in 

 the occupation of compounding or dispensing of medicines on the prescriptions of 

 physicians, or for selling at retail for medicinal purposes any drugs, chemicals, 

 poisons, or pharmaceutical preparations, except when engaged or employed in a 

 pharmacy, retail drug or chemical store which is in charge of and under the super- 

 vision and management of a regular pharmacist. 



SEC. 8. Any person owning a pharmacy, retail drug or chemical store, who, 11 

 violation of the provisions of section 1 of this act, causes or permits the same to be 

 conducted by a person not a registered pharmacist shall be deemed guilty of a mia- 



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