544    Recommendations  to  the  Boards  of  Pharmacy,  {^Vember  ^go?  * 
RECOMMENDATIONS  TO  THE  BOARDS  OF  PHARMACY. 
Adopted  by  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association  and  by  the  Joint 
Conference  of  Boards  and  Schools  of  Pharmacy  at 
Indianapolis,  September,  1906. 
(1)  All  laws  and  regulations  governing  the  licensing  of  pharma- 
cists should  make  due  distinction  between  apprentices,  clerks  and 
principals,  and  should  establish  definite  minimum  qualifications  and 
indicate  the  rights  and  duties  of  each  of  these  three  classes  of  phar- 
maceutical workers. 
(2)  No  person  should  be  licensed  to  practise  as  an  assistant  phar- 
macist who  has  not  attained  the  age  of  twenty-one  years. 
(3)  The  pharmaceutical  training  and  experience  required  for  the 
licensing  of  assistant  pharmacists  should  together  occupy  not  less 
than  four  years,  all  of  which  may  consist  of  drug-store  practice,  or 
which  may  consist  of  three  years'  drug-store  practice  and  one  aca- 
demic year's  work  in  a  pharmaceutical  school,  or  of  two  years'  drug- 
store practice  and  two  academic  years'  work  in  a  school  of  pharmacy. 
(4)  No  person  should  be  licensed  as  a  registered  pharmacist  and 
given  the  right  to  conduct  a  pharmacy  who  has  not  served  at  least 
two  years  as  an  assistant  pharmacist,  provided,  however,  that  when 
any  licensed  assistant  pharmacist  attends  upon  the  courses  of  instruc- 
tion at  a  school  of  pharmacy  subsequent  to  the  date  of  his  license 
as  such,  the  time  occupied  by  such  school  attendance  may  be  de- 
ducted from  that  two  years'  service. 
(5)  The  pharmaceutical  college  training  and  drug-store  experience 
required  for  the  licensing  of  registered  pharmacists  should  together 
occupy  not  less  than  five  years,  of  which  not  less  than  three  years 
should  be  drug-store  experience,  and  graduation  from  an  appr  oved 
school  of  pharmacy  should  be  required  of  all  candidates  for  license 
as  registered  pharmacists. 
(6)  All  candidates  for  license  to  practice  pharmacy  should  be  re- 
quired to  pass  such  examinations  as  may  in  the  opinion  of  the  Board 
of  Pharmacy  be  deemed  necessary.  Due  credit  should  be  given  for 
successfully  completed  courses  in  approved  pharmaceutical  schools, 
but  all  candidates  should  be  examined  upon  their  ability  to  correctly 
read  and  dispense  prescriptions. 
(7)  A  preliminary  general  education  of  not  less  than  one  year's 
satisfactorily  completed  high-school  work,  or  its  educational  equiva- 
