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SEC. 5. As soon as convenient after this act the presiding judge of the district 

 court of the several judicial districts shall as soon as practicable severally appoint 

 a board of pharmaceutical examiners for their respective districts, who shall hold 

 their office two years, which appointment shall be in writing and signed by the judge 

 making the same, and delivered to the person appointed. Said board of pharma- 

 ceutical examiners shall be composed of not less than three qualified pharmacists 

 who are residents of the districts of which they are appointed. If a vacancy occurs 

 in said board another shall be appointed as aforesaid to fill the unexpired terra. 

 Said board shall have power to make by-laws and all the necessary regulations for 

 the proper fulfillment of their duties under this act. 



SEC. 6. The board shall meet within ninety days after the passage of this act, and 

 once a year thereafter, in as central portions of the district as practicable, and shall 

 give one month's notice, through the public press, of the time and place of such 

 meeting. The board shall organize for business by electing a registrar of pharmacy. 

 The duties of said board shall be to examine all applicants for registration, to direct 

 the registration by the registrar of all persons properly qualified or entitled thereto. 



SEC. 7. The duties of the registrar of pharmacy shall be to keep a book in which 

 shall be entered, under the supervision of the. board of pharmacy, the name and 

 place of business of every person who shall apply for registration, and/a statement, 

 signed by the person making the application, of such facts in the case as may claim 

 to justify his or her application. It shall also be the duty of the registrar to duly 

 note the fact against the name of any qualified pharmacist who may have died or 

 removed from the State, or disposed of or relinquished his business. 



SEC. 8. Any person, in order to become a qualified pharmacist within the meaning 

 of this act, shall apply and appear for examination and registration, and shall pay 

 to the board of pharmacy five dollars; and on passing the examination required 

 shall be furnished, free of cost, a certificate of registration, signed by the said 

 board. Should said person fail to pass a satisfactory examination he may at any 

 one other meeting of the board of pharmacy, within twelve months, be permitted 

 to be examined without cost. 



SEC. 9. Graduates, as specified in section 3, shall apply for registration, and if 

 they produce satisfactory evidence to the bo^rd of pharmacy that they have a right 

 to be registered, shall, upon paying the said board three dollars, be furnished a cer- 

 tificate of registration, without examination. 



SEC. 10. Proprietors who are actively engaged in the preparation of physicians' 

 prescriptions and compounding and vending medicine in the State of Texas at 

 the passage of this act shall be exempt from examination; also assistants who are 

 likewise engaged and have been so engaged for three years, and are twenty-one 

 years old, provided he, she, or they will register, as specified in this act, at first 

 meeting of the board of pharmacy, and upon paying the board three dollars shall 

 be furnished with a certificate of registration: Provided, That the provisions of 

 this bill shall not prevent any person from engaging in the business herein described 

 as proprietors or owners thereof, provided such proprietor or owner shall have 

 employed in his business some qualified pharmacist to fill his prescriptions and 

 compound drugs. 



SEC. 11. All persons receiving a certificate of registration shall place it in a con- 

 spicuous place in their place of business. In failing, to do this, the board of phar- 

 marcy shall cancel their registration and deprive them of their certificate. 



SEC. 12. Any person not a qualified pharmacist, but continues to compound pre- 

 scriptions or retail medicine without complying with this act, shall, upon first con- 

 viction, be sentenced to pay a fine of not less than fifty nor more than one hundred 

 dollars; and upon the second and every subsequent conviction shall be sentenced 

 to a fine of not less than one hundred nor more than two hundred dollars. 



SEC. 13. Any person who shall procure registration for himself or for another 

 under this act by making or causing to be made any false representation shall bfl 



