80 MINUTES OF THE NEW YORK COLLEGE OE PHARMACY". 
H. Mitchell, M. D., Chenango county, New York, 
A Leavenworth, M, D., Cataraugus " " " 
A. Mclntyre, M. D., Warren " " " 
John Coats, M. D., Genesee " " " 
An Act to regulate the preparation and dispensing of medi- 
cines in the city of New York, passed March 11, 1839. 
The people of the state of New York, represented in Senate 
and Assembly, do enact as follows: 
Sec 1.— No person shall be hereafter allowed to commence 
or practice, in the city of New York, the business of an 
apothecary, or that of preparing and dispensing medicine, or 
of preparing or putting up physicians' prescriptions, without 
having previously obtained the diploma of the College of 
Pharmacy of the city of New York, or unless furnished with 
a diploma from some other regularly constituted College of 
Pharmacy or Medicine, or shall have passed an examination 
of the censors of the medical society of one of the counties of 
this state, and have been furnished by such censors with a 
certificate of his qualifications for the business of an apothe- 
cary, which diploma or certificate he shall produce to the Sec- 
retary of the said College of Pharmacy to be by him registered 
without charge. 
Sec. 2. — Any persons offending against the provisions of 
this law r , shall be subject to a penalty of fifty-one dollars for 
each and every offence, which may be recovered with costs, 
in the name of the people of the state of New York, in any 
civil court of record, and the said fines when collected, after 
deducting such reasonable counsel fees as the court shall allow, 
shall be paid by the district attorney to the Treasurer of the 
New York City Dispensary for the use of said Dispensary. 
Sec 3. — This law shall not apply to persons who now are 
in said business, nor to the preparation and dispensing of me- 
dicines by licensed physicians. 
