226  The  Pharmacy  Act.  {AVa°yu 
Section  I.  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  whatsoever  shall 
open  or  carry  on  in  the  City  of  Philadelphia  any  Retail  Drug  or  Chemical 
Store  as  the  proprietor  or  manager  thereof  nor  engage  in  the  business  of  com- 
pounding or  dispensing  Medicines  on  prescriptions  of  Physicians  or  of  selling 
at  retail  any  Drugs  Chemicals  Poisons  or  Medicines  without  having  obtained 
a  written  certificate  that  he  is  duly  competent  and  qualified  to  do  so  from  "  The 
Pharmaceutical  Examining  Board"  and  having  been  duly  registered  as  here- 
inafter provided. 
Section  II.  That  there  shall  be  established  in  the  City  of  Philadelphia  a 
Board  to  be  styled  The  Pharmaceutical  Examining  Board  to  consist  of  five 
persons  three  of  whom  shall  constitute  a  quorum  who  shall  be  appointed  by  the 
Mayor  of  the  City  of  Philadelphia  out  of  the  most  skilled  and  competent 
Pharmacists  [at  the  time  engaged  in  said  business]  in  the  said  City  who  shall 
be  and  constitute  the  said  The  Pharmaceutical  Examining  Board  as  aforesaid. 
The  said  persons  shall  hold  their  office  for  three  years  and  until  their  successors 
are  duly  appointed  and  qualified.  They  and  each  of  them  shall  within  ten  days 
after  their  appointment  take  and  subscribe  an  oath  or  affirmation  before  the 
Clerk  of  the  Court  of  Quarter  Sessions  of  the  Peace  for  the  County  of  Phila- 
delphia that  they  will  faithfully  and  impartially  perform  the  duties  of  their 
office  ;  and  any  vacancy  occurring  in  said  Board  shall  be  filled  for  the  unexpired 
term  by  the  Mayor  of  the  said  City. 
Section  III.  That  the  said  The  Pharmaceutical  Examining  Board  shall 
keep  a  Book  of  Registration  open  at  some  convenient  place  of  which  due 
notice  shall  be  given  by  advertisement  in  at  least  two  of  the  public  newspapers 
of  the  City  of  Philadelphia  in  which  Book  shall  be  registered  the  name  and 
address  of  every  person  duly  qualified  under  this  Act  to  conduct  the  retail 
Apothecary  business.  And  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  all  persons  now  conducting 
or  who  shall  hereafter  conduct  the  business  of  retail  Apothecaries  in  said  City 
to  appear  before  said  Board  and  be  registered  within  thirty  days  after  such 
notice. 
Section  IV.  The  said  Pharmaceutical  Examining  Board  shall  be  entitled 
to  demand  and  receive  from  each  applicant  for  such  registration  and  the  certi- 
ficate hereinafter  provided  for  a  fee  not  to  exceed  five  dollars  ($5)  to  be  applied 
to  the  payment  of  expenses  arising  under  the  provisions  of  this  Act. 
Section  V.  The  duty  of  the  said  The  Pharmaceutical  Examining  Board 
shall  be  to  examine  every  person  who  shall  desire  to  carry  on  the  business  of  a 
retail  Apothecary  or  that  of  retailing  Drugs  Chemicals  or  Poisons  or  of  com- 
pounding and  dispensing  Physicians'  prescriptions  touching  his  competency 
and  qualification  for  that  purpose ;  and  upon  the  said  Board  or  a  majority  of 
them  being  satisfied  of  such  competency  and  qualification  they  the  said  Board 
or  a  majority  of  them  shall  grant  to  such  person  a  certificate  of  his  competency 
and  qualification  which  certificate  shall  entitle  the  holder  thereof  to  conduct 
and  carry  on  the  business  as  aforesaid. 
