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in section four of this act; and that all graduates in pharmacy having a diploma 

 from an incorporated college or school of pharmacy that requires a practical expe- 

 rience in pharmacy of not less than four years before granting a diploma, shall be 

 entitled to have their names registered as pharmacist by said commissioners of phar- 

 macy without examination. 



SEC. 6. That the commissioners of pharmacy shall be entitled to demand and 

 receive from each person whom they register and furnish a certificate as a registered 

 pharmacist, without examination, the sum of two dollars, and from each and every 

 person whom they examine orally or otherwise, the sum of five dollars, which shall 

 be in full for services. And in case the said examination of said person shall prove 

 defective and unsatisfactory and his name not be registered, he shall be permitted 

 to present himself for reexamiuatiou within any period not exceeding twelve months 

 next thereafter, and no charge shall be made for such reexaminatiou. 



SEC. 7. Every applicant for registration as a pharmacist shall present to the com- 

 missioners of pharmacy satisfactory evidence that he is a person of good moral char- 

 acter and not addicted to drunkenness, and all persons, whether registered phar- 

 macists or not, shall be held responsible for the quality of all drugs, chemicals, and 

 medicines they may sell or dispense, with the exception of those sold in the original 

 packages of the manufacturer, and those known as "patent medicines." Any per- 

 son who shall knowingly, intentionally, and fraudulently adulterate or cause to be 

 adulterated any drugs, chemicals, or medical pi vpa rat ions, or knowingly sell any 

 adulterated drugs, chemicals, or medical preparations, shall be deemed guilty of a 

 misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof be fined not exceeding one hundred dol- 

 lars, and if he be a registered pharmacist his name shall be stricken from the register. 



SEC. 8. Apothecaries registered as in this act provided, shall have the right to 

 keep and sell, under such restrictions as heroin provided, all medicines and poisons, 

 authorized by the national, American, or United States dispensatory and phar- 

 macopoeia, as of recognized utility. 



SKC. 9. No druggist or registered pharmacist shall retail any of the poisons 

 enumerated in the following schedule except as hereinafter provided. 



SCHEDULE A. 



Arsenic and its preparations, corrosive sublimate, white precipitate, red precipi- 

 tate, biniodide of mercury, cyanide of pota-sinm. hydrocyanic acid, strychnia, and 

 all other poisonous vegetable alkaloids and their salts; essential oil of bitter almonds, 

 opium and its preparations, except paregoric and other preparations of opium con- 

 taining less than two grains to the ounce. 



SCHEDULE B. 



Aconite, belladonna, colchicum, conium, nux vomica, henbene, savin, ergot, cotton 

 root, cantharides, creosote, digitalis, and their pharmaceutical preparations; croton 

 oil, chloroform, chloral hydrate, sulphate of zinc, sulphate of copper, acetate of 

 lead, mineral acids, carbolic acid, and oxalic acid. 



Whenever any of the said poisons are sold, the box, vessel, or paper, in which the 

 same is put up shall be distinctly labeled with a device bearing the death's head 

 and crossbones, and also the name of the article, the word " poison," and the name 

 and place of business of seller. The seller shall also ascertain upon due inquiry 

 that the purchaser is aware of the poisonous character of the drug, and that it is to 

 be used for a legitimate and lawful purpose. He shall also, before delivering any of 

 the poisons named in schedule A to a purchaser, cause an entry to be made in a 

 book kept for the purpose, which entry shall show the date of the sale, the name 

 and residence of the purchaser, the name and quality of the poison sold, the pur- 

 pose for which it is to be used as represented by the purchaser, and the name of the 

 dispenser; such book to be always subject to the inspection of the proper author- 

 jties, and to be preserved for at least five years from the date of the last entry. 



