AmAprn?i9oiarm'}     Pharmacy  Laws  and  Legislation.  201 
PHARMACY  LAWS  AND  LEGISLATION. 
Contributed  by  Professor  J.  H.  Beai,,  Scio,  O. 
Under  this  title  it  is  designed  to  give  each  month  a  brief  resume 
of  proposed  and  accomplished  pharmacy  legislation,  and  of  deci- 
sions of  importance  to  pharmacy  boards  and  pharmacists.  On 
account  of  space  limitations,  proposed  legislation  cannot  be  more 
than  briefly  mentioned,  but  bills  enacted  into  law  will  be  discussed 
and  their  principal  features  pointed  out.  Pharmacy  boards  and 
members  of  legislative  committees  and  others  are  requested  to  send 
copies  of  such  measures  and  news  of  this  kind  either  to  the  editor 
of  this  Journal  or  to  Prof.  J.  H.  Beal,  Scio,  O. 
MINNESOTA  STATE  BOARD  OF    PHARMACY  REPORT. 
The  citizens  of  Minnesota  are  fortunate  in  having  a  fairly  good 
pharmacy  statute,  and  a  Board  of  Pharmacy  that  is  more  than 
fairly  good,  in  fact  one  of  the  most  efficient  boards  in  the  United 
States,  the  sixteenth  annual  report  of  which  is  a  model  of  what 
pharmacy  board  reports  should  be. 
The  report  shows  591  pharmacists  enrolled  on  experience  at  the 
time  the  law  was  passed,  714  pharmacists  enrolled  by  examination, 
and  169  assistant  pharmacists. 
During  the  year  the  board  conducted  forty-one  prosecutions  to  a 
successful  issue.  Thirty-eight  were  for  failure  to  keep  a  registered 
pharmacist  in  charge  of  the  store,  the  fine  being  $50  in  each  case. 
Two  were  for  failure  to  expose  certificate  of  registration,  with  a 
fine  of  $10  each.  In  one  case,  cause  of  complaint  not  stated,  the 
fine  assessed  was  $150.  The  total  of  fines  assessed  was  thus  $2,070, 
which,  with  the  costs  added,  shows  it  to  be  rather  expensive  to 
violate  the  pharmacy  law  in  Minnesota. 
The  report  also  contains  the  minutes  of  the  several  meetings  of 
the  board  for  the  year,  the  lists  of  questions  asked,  and  an  illus- 
tration showing  the  portable  dispensing  cabinets  used  in  examining 
students  in  compounding  and  prescription  work. 
The  finances  of  the  board  are  in  flourishing  condition,  the  cash 
balance  on  hand  at  the  close  of  1900  being  nearly  twice  that  at  the 
end  of  the  preceding  year. 
NEW  YORK. 
Proposed  pharmacy  legislation  is  a  live  topic  in  New  York  State 
at  present,  a  number  of  measures  affecting  pharmacy  having  been 
already  introduced  into  the  legislature. 
