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the article and the word "poison" distinctly shown, with the name and place of 

 business of the seller, who shall not deliver any of said poisons without satisfying 

 himself that said poisons are to be used for legitimate purpose : Provided, That 

 nothing herein contained shall apply to the dispensing of physicians' prescriptions 

 of auy of the poisons or articles aforesaid. Any person failing to comply with the 

 requirements of this section shall be liable to a fine in any sum less than three hun- 

 dred dollars for each and every such offense. 



SEC. 16. All acts or portions of acts regulating the practice of pharmacy and the 

 sale of poisons within this Territory, enacted prior to the passage of this act, are 

 hereby repealed. 



Approved March 10, 1892. 



VERMONT. 



Has no pharmacy law. 



VIRGINIA. 



CHAPTER 78, REVISED CODE, 1887. 

 A.N" ACT regulating the practice of pharmacy in the State of Virginia. 



SECTION 1. The Virginia pharmaceutical association, incorporated by an act of the 

 general assembly approved March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, shall 

 continue a corporation under the name of " The Virginia Pharmaceutical Associa- 

 tion." Said association shall not hold, at any one time, real estate in excess of ten 

 thousand dollars in value. 



SEC. 2. The object of said association is to unite the pharmacists and druggists of 

 this State for mutual aid, encouragement, and improvement; to encourage scientific 

 research, develop pharmaceutical talent, to elevate the standard of professional 

 thought, and ultimately restrict the practice of pharmacy to qualified pharmacists 

 and druggists. 



SEC. 3. It shall not be lawful for any person other than a registered pharmacist or 

 practicing physicinn to retail, compound, or dispense medicines or poisons, or to 

 open or conduct any pharmacy or store for retailing, dispensing, or compounding 

 drugs or medicines, unless such person shall be or shall employ or place in charge 

 of said pharmacy or store a pharmacist registered as hereinafter provided: Provided, 

 That nothing herein contained shall prevent the sale by merchants of quinine. 

 Epsomsalts, castor oil, essence of peppermint and other flavoring preparations, calo- 

 mel, camphor, iodide, bromide and chlorate of potassa, opium, paregoric and sweet 

 oil, and such other domestic and proprietary medicines as are usually kept by retail 

 dealers; but the sale of laudanum, morphine, and proprietary medicines must be 

 in original packages as obtained from druggists. 



SEC. 4. Any person, in order to be registered, shall be a graduate of some college 

 of pharmacy recognized by the Virginia pharmaceutical association or shall have 

 had three years' experience in a drug store where the prescriptions of medical prac- 

 titioners are compounded, or shall be a licentiate of pharmacy of the board of 

 pharmacy of Virginia. 



SEC. 5. The board of pharmacy of the State of Virginia shall be continued. It 

 shall consist of five members, to be appointed by the governor, each for the term of 

 five years. Their terms of office shall continue to be so arranged that one of them 

 shall go out of office every year. The Virginia pharmaceutical association shall 

 annually recommend five pharmacists, from whom the governor shall select and 

 appoint one to fill the vacancy thus annually occurring in the board. In case of 

 death, resignation, or removal of any member of the board from the State the gov- 

 ernor shall, from the names last submitted to him, appoint a pharmacist in his place 

 to serve as a member of the board for the remainder of the term. 



SEC. 6. Every person appointed a member of the board shall, before entering upon 

 the duties of his office, take the oath of office in the county or corporation in which 



