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All  persons  applying  for  examination  for  certificate  to  entitle  them  to 
conduct  and  carry  on  the  retail  drug  or  apothecary  business,  must  produce 
satisfactory  evidence  of  having  had  not  less  than  four  years'  practical  ex- 
perience in  the  business.  And  those  applying  for  examination  for  certifi- 
cates as  qualified  assistants  therein,  must  produce  evidence  of  having  not 
less  than  two  years'  experience  in  said  business. 
Section  6.  That  no  person  shall  hereafter  .engage  as  manager  in  the 
business  of  an  apothecary  or  pharmacist,  or  of  retailing  drugs,  chemicals, 
and  poisons,  or  of  compounding  and  dispensing  the  prescriptions  of  physi- 
cians, either  directly  or  indirectly,  without  having  obtained  such  certificate 
as  aforesaid.  But  nothing  contained  in  this  act  shall  in  any  manner  what- 
ever interfere  with  the  business  of  any  practitioner  of  medicine,  nor  pre- 
vent him  from  administering  or  supplying  to  his  patients  such  articles  as 
to  him  may  seem  fit  and  proper,  nor  shall  it  interfere  with  the  making  and 
dealing  in  proprietary  remedies  popularly  called  patent  medicines,  nor  pre- 
vent storekeepers  from  dealing  in  and  selling  the  commonly  used  medicines 
and  poisons,  if  such  medicines  and  poisons  conform  in  all  respects  to  the  re- 
quirements of  section  nine,  provided  the  provisions  of  section  ten  of  this 
act  be  fully  complied  with. 
Any  person  who  shall  violate  or  fail  to  comply  with  the  provisions  of 
this  section  shall  be  guilty  of  a  misdemeanor  and  on  conviction  before  any 
court,  shall  be  punished  by  a  fine  not  exceeding  one  hundred  dollars,  or  be 
imprisoned  in  the  county  jail  of  the  proper  county,  for  a  term  not  exceed- 
ing one  year,  or  either,  or  both,  at  the  discretion  of  the  court. 
Section  7.  That  the  foregoing  provisions  of  this  act  shall  not  apply  to,  or 
affect  any  person  who  shall  be  engaged  in  the  retail  drug  and  apothecary 
business,  as  proprietor  of  the  same,  or  as  qualified  assistant  therein,  at  the 
passage  of  this  act,  except  only  in  so  far  as  relates  to  registration  and  fees 
provided  in  sections  three  and  four  of  this  act. 
A  qualified  assistant  engaged  in  the  business  at  the  passage  of  this  act, 
is  one  who  has  had  not  less  than  two.years'  practical  experience  in  the  re- 
tail drug  and  apothecary  business.  All  other  assistants  actually  engaged 
in  the  business  at  the  passage  of  this  act  shall,  upon  the  completion  of  a 
like  term  of  two  years  experience  be  entitled  to  registration  as  qualified 
assistants  without  examination. 
Section  8.  That  no  person  shall  be  allowed  by  the  proprietor  or  manager 
of  any  store  or  place  where  prescriptions  are  compounded,  to  compound 
or  dispense  the  prescriptions  of  physicians,  except  under  the  immediate 
supervision  of  said  proprietor  or  his  qualified  assistant,  unless  holding  a 
properly  certified  certificate  of  registration  or  competency  from  the  State 
Pharmaceutical  Examining  Board  as  herein  provided,  and  any  person  vio- 
lating the  provisions  of  this  section  shall  be  deemed  guilty  of  misdemeanor, 
and  on  conviction  thereof,  shall  be  punished  by  a  fine  not  exceeding  one 
hundred  dollars. 
Section  9.  That  no  person  shall  knowingly,  willfully  or  fraudulently, 
falsify,  or  adulterate,  or  cause  to  be  falsified  or  adulterated,  any  drug  or 
medical  substance,  or  any  preparation  authorized  or  recognized  by  the 
