564  PROPOSED  LAW  REGULATING  PHARMACY,  ETC. 
be  the  duty  of  every  registered  pharmacist  to  communicate  by  letter  to  the 
Registrar  each  year,  on  the  first  day  of  December,  whether  he  still  continues 
practising  pharmacy  at  his  registered  place  of  business,  and  to  enclose  a  fee 
of  one  dollar  for  the  insertion  of  his  name  and  business  address  in  the  register 
for  the  ensuing  year  ;  and  on  or  before  the  tenth  day  of  January  in  each  year, 
commencing  with  January,  18  ,  said  Registrar  shall  notify  every  registered 
pharmacist  who  shall  not  have  written  to  hira  as  aforesaid  ;  and  in  case  an 
answer,  enclosing  an  additional  fee  of  fifty  cents,  shall  not  be  received  by  the 
Registrar  within  fourteen  days,  such  registered  pharmacist  shall  be  stricken 
from  the  register,  and  his  name  be  at  once  reported  by  the  Registrar  to  the 
President  of  the  Pharmaceutical  Board.  Provided  ahvai/s,  that  his  name  shall 
be  restored  to  the  register  on  payment  to  the  Registrar  of  a  fee  of  five  dollars, 
and  in  case  more  than  one  year  has  elapsed  since  the  date  of  sending  the  afore- 
said notification,  he  shall  also  produce  proper  evidence  of  being  entitled  to 
registration,  in  like  manner  as  if  his  name  had  never  been  registered.  All 
aforesaid  notifications  sent  by  said  Registrar  shall  have  printed  on  the  outside 
an  inscription  directing  their  return  to  the  office  of  the  Registrar,  in  case  the 
persons  to  whom  they  are  addressed  cannot  be  found. 
Graduates  and  practising  assistants  in  pharmacy  shall,  upon  application  to 
the  Registrar  in  the  form  set  forth  in  Schedule  D  to  this  Act,  be  entitled  to  be 
entered  as  registered  assistants  in  pharmacy  at  an  annual  fee  of  twenty-five 
cents. 
The  Registrar  shall,  on  the  written  demand  of  any  registered  pharmacist  or 
registered  assistant,  accompanied  by  a  fee  of  twenty-five  cents,  give  him  a 
certificate  under  his  own  hand,  setting  forth,  in  the  manner  presented  in  Sche- 
dule H  to  this  Act,  that  such  person  is  so  registered. 
No  name  shall  be  entered  on  the  register  except  of  persons  authorized  by 
this  Act  to  be  thus  registered,  nor  unless  the  Registrar  be  satisfied  by  proper 
evidence  in  accordance  with  this  Act,  that  the  applicant  is  entitled  to  be  reg- 
istered. 
The  Registrar  shall,  in  the  month  of  March  of  each  year,  cause  to  be  printed 
and  published,  as  nearly  as  may  be  in  the  form  of  Schedule  B  of  this  Act,  a 
correct  list  of  the  names  of  all  registered  pharmacists  and  registered  assist- 
ants, arranged  in  the  alphabetical  order  of  their  surnames,  with  their  respec- 
tive places  of  business,  and  such  printed  list  shall  be  entitled  the  Opcial 
Register  of  Pharmacists  within  the  State  of  ;  a  copy  of  which,  or  a 
certificate  under  the  hand  of  the  Registrar,  shall  be  evidence  in  all  the  courts 
of  this  State  that  the  persons  therein  specified  are  registered  according  to  the 
provisions  of  this  Act,  and  the  absence  of  the  name  of  any  person  from  such 
printed  register  shall  be  presumptive  evidence  that  such  i)erson  is  not  regis- 
tered according  to  the  provisions  of  this  Act ;  and  each  and  every  registered 
pharmacist  within  the  State  shall  be  supplied  by  the  Registrar  with  a  copy  of 
said  official  register  of  pharmacists,  to  be  sent  by  mail  free  of  charge,  and  the 
postage  thereon  prepaid. 
Sect.  9.  Any  Registrar  who  shall  wilfully  make  or  cause  to  be  made  any 
falsification  in  any  matter  relating  to  the  said  oflicial  register  of  pharmacists, 
and  any  person  who  shall  wilfully  procure  or  attempt  to  procure  himself  to  be 
registered  under  this  Act,  by  making,  or  producing,  or  causing  to  be  made  or 
produced,  any  false  or  fraudulent  representation  or  declaration,  either  verbally 
or  in  writing,  and  any  person  aiding  or  assisting  him  therein,  shall  be  deemed 
guilty  of  misdemeanor,  and  shall,  on  conviction  thereof,  be  sentenced  to  be 
imprisoned  for  a  term  not  exceeding  twelve  months,  nor  less  than  three 
months,  and  in  addition  thereto  may  be  fined  a  sum  not  exceeding  one  thou- 
sand dollars,  to  be  paid  into  the  State  Treasury. 
Sect.  10.  And  be  it  further  enacted,  that  any  person  not  a  registered  pharma- 
cist, who  shall  after  the  day  of  18  ,  keep  open  shop  for 
the  retailing  or  dispensing  of  medicines  and  poisons,  or  who  shall  take,  use, 
or  exhibit  the  title  of  Reaistered  Pharmacist,  shall  for  every  such  offence  be 
liable  to  a  penalty  of  fifty  dollars,  to  be  paid  to  the  Pharmaceutical  Board  to 
