Am'jJiy^8Sharm'}      Pharmacy  Law  of  Pennsylvania.  363 
PHARMACY  LAW  OF  PENNSYLVANIA. 
An  Act  to  regulate  the  practice  of  Pharmacy  and  sale  of  Poisons  and  to  pre- 
vent Adulterations  in  Drugs  and  Medicinal  Preparations  in  the  State 
of  Pennsylvania. 
WHEREAS  The  safety  of  the  public  is  endangered  by  want  of  care  in  the 
sale  of  poisons,  whether  to  be  used  as  such  for  legitimate  purposes  or  em- 
ployed as  medicines  and  dispensed  on  the  prescriptions  of  physicians ; 
And  Whereas  The  ability  of  physicians  to  overcome  disease  depends 
greatly  on  their  obtaining  good  and  unadulterated  drugs  and  properly  pre- 
pared medicines  ; 
And  Whereas  The  person  to  whom  the  preparation  and  sale  of  drugs, 
medicines  and  poisons  properly  belong,  known  as  apothecaries,  chemists 
and  druggists  or  pharmacists,  should  possess  a  practical  knowledge  of  the 
business  and  science  of  pharmacy  in  all  its  relations  ;  Therefore 
Section  1.  Be  it  enacted  by  the  Senate  and  House  of  Representatives  of  the 
Commonwealth  of  Pennsylvania  in  General  Assembly  met,  and  it  is  hereby  enacted 
by  the  authority  of  the  same  :  That  hereafter  no  person  whomsoever  shall  open 
or  carry  on  as  manager  in  the  State  of  Pennsylvania  any  retail  drug  or 
chemical  store,  nor  engage  in  the  business  of  compounding  or  dispensing 
medicines  or  prescriptions  of  physicians,  or  of  selling  at  retail  any  drugs, 
chemicals,  poisons  or  medicines,  without  having  obtained  a  certificate  of 
competency  and  qualification  so  to  do,  from  the  State  Pharmaceutical  Ex- 
amining Board,  and  having  been  duly  registered  as  herein  provided. 
Section  2.  That  there  shall  be  established  in  the  State  of  Pennsylvania  a 
Board  to  be  styled  The  State  Pharmaceutical  Examining  Board,  to  consist 
of  five  persons,  three  of  whom  shall  constitute  a  quorum,  who  shall  be  ap- 
pointed by  the  Governor  from  among  the  most  skillful  retail  Apothecaries 
actually  engaged  in  said  business  in  the  State  of  Pennsylvania,  and  who 
must  have  had  ten  years  practical  experience  in  the  same,  one  to  serve  five 
years,  one  four  years,  one  three  years,  one  two  years  and  one  one  year,  in 
the  first  instance;  and  thereafter  annually  the  Governor  shall  appoint  one 
person  to  serve  as  a  member  of  said  Board  for  the  term  of  five  years.  The 
said  persons  so  appointed  shall  be  and  constitute  the  said  The  State  Phar- 
maceutical Examining  Board,  and  shall  hold  the  office  for  the  term  for 
which  they  were  appointed  or  until  their  successors  are  duly  appointed  and 
qualified,  and  shall  receive  as  a  compensation  for  their  services  five  dollars 
for  each  day  actually  engaged  in  this  service,  and  all  legitimate  and  neces- 
sary expenses  incurred  in  attending  the  meetings  of  said  board  under  the 
provisions  of  this  act ;  and  no  part  of  the  salary  of  said  board  or  expenses 
thereof  shall  be  paid  out  of  the  state  treasury. 
The  said  board  shall  organize  by  electing  one  of  its  members  secretary, 
who  in  addition  to  his  compensation  as  a  member  of  said  board  shall  re- 
ceive a  further  sum  not  to  exceed  one  hundred  dollars  annually,  for  his  ser- 
vices as  secretary. 
They,  the  said  board  and  each  of  them  shall  within  ten  days  after  their 
appointment,  or  being  apprised  of  the  same,  take  and  subscribe  an  oath  or 
