-M^XmT'}  The  Pharmacy  Act.  227 
Section  VI.  That  if  any  person  should  hereafter  engage  in  the  business  of 
an  Apothecary  or  of  retailing  Drugs  Chemicals  and  Poisons  or  of  compounding 
and  dispensing  the  prescriptions  of  Physicians  either  directly  or  indirectly 
without  having  obtained  such  certificate  as  aforesaid  such  person  shall  be  liable 
to  a  penalty  of  one  hundred  dollars  ($100)  for  each  and  every  week  during  which 
they  shall  continue  to  carry  on  such  business  without  such  certificate  as  afore- 
said to  be  recovered  by  a  suit  to  be  brought  before  any  Alderman  or  in  any 
competent  court  in  said  city  by  the  said  Board  or  by  any  other  person  for  the 
m  use  of  the  Guardians  of  the  Poor  for  the  City  of  Philadelphia  to  whom  the 
said  penalties  are  to  be  paid. 
Section  VII.  That  the  foregoing  provisions  of  this  Act  shall  not  apply  to  or 
affect  any  person  who  shall  have  a  diploma  or  certificate  from  any  incorporated 
College  or  School  of  Pharmacy  whose  diploma  or  certificate  is  based  upon  a 
regular  term  of  service  in  the  Drug  and  Apothecary  Business  or  who  shall  be 
engaged  in  the  Drug  and  Apothecary  Business  prior  to  the  passage  of  this  Act 
except  only  in  so  far  as  relates  to  registration  as  provided  for  in  Sections  III 
and  VI,  of  this  Act. 
Section  VIII.  That  no  person  not  a  Graduate  in  Pharmacy  shall  be  allowed 
by  the  proprietor  or  manager  of  any  store  to  compound  or  dispense  the  pre 
scriptious  of  Physicians  [except  as  an  aid  under  the  immediate  supervision  of 
said  proprietor  or  his  qualified  assistant]  unless  he  has  been  at  least  two  years 
apprenticed  in  a  store  where  medicines  are  compounded  and  dispensed  and  has 
attended  one' full  course  of  lectures  on  Chemistry  Materia  Medica  and  Phar- 
macy ;  and  no  proprietor  shall  leave  his  store  in  charge  of  any  but  a  qualified 
assistant.  Any  person  violating  the  provisions  of  this  Section  of  this  Act  shall 
be  deemed  guilty  of  misdemeanor  and  on  conviction  thereof  be  liable  to  a 
penalty  not  exceeding  one  hundred  dollars  ($100). 
Section  IX.  A  qualified  assistant  in  the  meaning  of  this  Act  shall  be  either 
a  Graduate  in  Pharmacy  holding  a  diploma  or  certificate  of  competency  based 
upon  a  regular  term  of  service  to  the  Drug  and  Apothecary  Business  from  an 
incorporated  College  or  School  of  Pharmacy  or  a  person  holding  a  certificate 
of  competency  and  qualification  from  The  Pharmaceutical  Examining  Board 
appointed  under  this  Act. 
Section  X.  That  any  person  who  shall  knowingly  wilfully  or  fraudulently 
falsify  or  adulterate  or  cause  to  be  falsified  or  adulterated  any  drug  or  medicinal 
substance  or  any  preparation  authorized  or  recognized  by  the  Pharmacopoeia 
of  the  United  States  or  used  or  intended  to  be  used  in  medical  practice  or 
shall  mix  or  cause  to  be  mixed  with  any  such  drug  or  medicinal  substance  any 
foreign  or  inert  substance  whatsoever  for  the  purpose  of  destroying  or  weaken- 
ing its  medicinal  power  or  effect  and  shall  wilfully  knowingly  or  fraudulently  sell 
or  cause  the  same  to  be  sold  for  medicinal  purposes  shall  be  guilty  of  a  misde- 
meanor and  upon  conviction  thereof  shall  pay  a  penalty  not  exceeding  five 
hundred  dollars  ($500)  and  shall  forfeit  to  the  Commonwealth  all  of  the  articles 
so  adulterated. 
