other person authorized to administer an oath or affirmation in the county in which the applicant resides.

The form of application shall be subject to such regulations as the board may see proper to adopt, but in no case shall the applicant be put to any unnecessary expense in order to secure registration.

SEC. 4. The said board shall be entitled to demand and receive from each applicant for examination and registration and for the certificate hereinafter provided a fee not to exceed two dollars, and for registration only a fee not to exceed one dollar in the first instance, and for renewing the same every three years a fee not to exceed one dollar; and the amount derived from this source shall be held by said board and be applied to the expenses and salaries herein provided and such as may arise under the provisions of this act, and they, the said board, shall report annually to the governor of the State of Pennsylvania all moneys received and disbursed under the provisions of this act, together with the number of pharmacists registered under this act.

SEC. 5. That it shall be the duty of said board to meet at least once every three months in the city of Harrisburg, or at such other place as they may deem expedient, and examine all persons who shall desire to carry on the business of a retail apothecary, or that of retailing drugs, chemicals, or poisons, or of compounding physicians' prescriptions, touching their competency and qualifications, and they, the said board, or a majority of them shall grant to such persons as may be qualified certificates of competency or qualification, which shall entitle the holders thereof either to conduct or carry on the business or to act as a qualified assistant therein, as may be expressed upon the said certificate, and such certificate, together with its renewals, shall be good and sufficient evidence of registration under this act.

All persons applying for examination for certificate to entitle them to conduct and carry on the retail drug or apothecary business must produce satisfactory evidence of having had not less than four years' practical experience in the business. And those applying for examination for certificates as qualified assistants therein must produce evidence of having not less than two years' experience in said business.

SEC. 6. That no person shall hereafter engage as manager in the business of an apothecary or pharmacist, 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. But nothing contained in this act shall in any manner whatever interfere with the business of any practitioner of medicine, nor prevent him from administering or supplying to his patients such articles as to him may seem fit and proper, nor shall it interfere with the making and dealing in proprietary remedies, popularly called patent medicines, nor prevent storekeepers from dealing in and selling the commonly used medicines and poisons, if such medicines and poisons conform in all respects to the requirements of section 9, provided the provisions of section 10 of this act be fully complied with.

Any person who shall violate or fail to comply with the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction before any court shall be punished by a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars, or be imprisoned in the county jail of the proper county for a term not exceeding one year, or either or both, at the discretion of the court.

SEC. 7. That the foregoing provisions of this act shall not apply to or affect any person who shall be engaged in the retail drug and apothecary business as proprietor of the same, or as qualified assistant therein at the passage of this act, except only in so far as relates to registration and fees provided in sections 3 and 4 of this act.

A qualified assistant, engaged in the business at the passage of this act, is one who has had not less than two years' practical experience in the retail drug and apothecary business. All other assistants actually engaged in the business at the passage of this act shall, upon the completion of a like term of two years' experience, be entitled to registration as qualified assistants without examination.

SEC. 8. That no person shall be allowed by the proprietor or manager of any store or place where prescriptions are compounded to compound or dispense the prescriptions of physicians except under the immediate supervision of said proprietor or his qualified assistant, unless holding a properly certified certificate of registration or competency from the state pharmaceutical examining board as herein provided, and any person violating the provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars.

SEC. 9. That no person shall knowingly, willfully, or fraudulently falsify or adulterate, or cause to be falsified or adulterated, any drug or medical substance or any preparation authorized or recognized by the pharmacopoeia of the United States, or used or intended to be used in medicinal practice, nor 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 weakening its medicinal power and effect, and willfully, knowingly, or fraudulently sell or cause the same to be sold for medicinal purposes. Any person who shall violate this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, and shall forfeit to the commonwealth all articles so adulterated.

SEC. 10. Poisons. - A poison in the meaning of this act shall be any drug, chemical, or preparation which, according to standard works on medicine or materia medica, is liable to be destructive to adult human life in quantities of sixty grains or less. No person shall sell at retail any poisons except as herein provided, without affixing to the bottle, box, vessel, or package containing the same, a label, printed or plainly written, containing the name of the article, the word "poison," and the name and place of business of the seller; nor shall he deliver poison to any person without satisfying himself that such poison is to be used for legitimate purposes.

It shall be the further duty of anyone selling or dispensing poisons, which are known to be destructive to adult human life in quantities of five grains or less, before delivering them to enter in a book, kept for this purpose, the name of the seller, the name and residence of the buyer, the name of the article, quantity sold or disposed of, and the purpose for which it is said to be intended, which book of registry shall be preserved for at least two years, and shall at all times be open to the inspection of the coroner or courts of the county in which the same may be kept. The provisions of this section shall not apply to the dispensing of physicians' prescriptions specifying poisonous articles, nor to the sale to agriculturists of such articles as are commonly used by them as insecticides. Any person failing to comply with the provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not less than five nor more than fifty dollars for each and every offense.

* SEC. 11. Repealed.

SEC. 12. It shall be the duty of the State pharmaceutical examining board to investigate all complaints and charges of noncompliance or violation of the provisions of this act, and prosecute all persons so offending whenever there shall appear to the board reasonable ground for such action.

SEC. 13. That all acts and parts of acts, so far as they may be in conflict with this, are hereby declared void and of no effect.

Approved May 24, 1887.

*AN ACT to repeal Sec. 11 of an act entitled "An act to regulate the practice of pharmacy and sale of poisons, and to prevent adulterations in drugs and medicinal preparations in the State of Pennsylvania," approved the twenty-fourth day of May, anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and eighty-seven.

SECTION 1. 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 section 11 of an act entitled "An act to regulate the practice of pharmacy and sale of poisons, and to prevent adulterations in drugs

RHODE ISLAND.

CHAPTER 131.-OF MEDICINES AND POISONS.

SECTION 1. No person, unless a registered pharmacist or registered assistant pharmacist in the employ of a registered pharmacist, or unless acting as an aid under the immediate supervision of a registered pharmacist or a registered assistant pharmacist, within the meaning of this chapter, shall retail, compound, or dispense medicines or poisons, except as hereinafter provided.

SEC. 2. Every person in order to be a registered pharmacist or a registered assistant pharmacist, within the meaning of this chapter, shall be either a graduate in pharmacy, a practising pharmacist or a practising assistant in pharmacy. Graduates in pharmacy shall be such as have obtained a diploma from a regularly incorporated college of pharmacy and shall have presented satisfactory evidence of their qualifications to the State board of pharmacy. A practicing pharmacist shall be deemed to be a person, who, on the twenty-fourth day of March, one thousand eight hundred seventy-one, kept and continued thereafter to keep an open shop for compounding and dispensing the prescriptions of medical practitioners and for the retailing of drugs and medicines, and who shall give to the State board of pharmacy satisfactory evidence of his qualifications, and shall have declared his intention in writing of keeping open shop for the compounding of prescriptions and the retailing of drugs and medicines, and such other persons as shall have given to the State board of pharmacy satisfactory evidence of their qualifications, and shall have declared their intention in writing of keeping open shop for the compounding of prescriptions and the retailing of drugs and medicines. A practicing assistant in pharmacy shall be deemed to be a person who shall have served three years' apprenticeship in a shop where the prescriptions of medical practitioners are compounded, and shall have passed a satisfactory examination before the State board of pharmacy.

SEC. 3. The State board of pharmacy shall consist of seven persons, to be appointed by the governor from the registered pharmacists of the State, and shall hold office for the term of three years and until their successors are appointed, and in case of vacancy at any time, arising from resignation, death, or ren oval from the State, the governor may fill such vacancy from the registered pharmacists of the State. Four members of said board shall constitute a quorum. Said board shall organize by the election of a president and secretary, both of whom shall sign all certificates and other official documents. Said board shall meet twice a year, and may make by-laws and all necessary regulations, not repugnant to law, for the proper fulfilment of their duties. The presiding officer of said board may administer oaths in relation to all matters connected with or in the administration of the duties of the board. The secretary of said board shall also be registrar of pharmacists. The said board shall examine all applicants for registration, shall direct the registration by the registrar of all persons properly qualified or entitled thereto, and shall report annually to the general assembly on the condition of pharmacy, together with the names of all registered pharmacists and assistant pharmacists. The registrar of pharmacists shall keep a and medicinal preparations in the State of Pennsylvania,” approved the twentyfourth day of May, anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and eighty-seven, which reads as follows: "Any graduate of au accredited medical college, who has had not less than three years' continuous practice since the date of his diploma, and who is registered as a practitioner of medicine and surgery under the act entitled 'An act to provide for the registration of all practitioners of medicine and surgery,' approved the eighth day of June, anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and eighty-one, may be registered under this act without examination, and be granted a certificate which shall entitle him to conduct and carry on the retail drug or apothecary business as proprietor or manager thereof, subject to fees provided in sections 3 and 4 of this act," be, and the same is hereby, repealed.

book in which shall be entered, under the supervision of the State board of pharmacy, the name and place of business of every person who shall apply for registra tion. The registrar shall note the fact against the name of any registered pharmacist or assistant pharmacist who may have died or removed from the State or disposed of or relinquished his business, and shall make all necessary alterations in the location of persons registered under this chapter.

SEC. 4. The certificate of the secretary of the State board of pharmacy and registrar of pharmacists as to any matter of record of said board or of the nonexistence of any matter in the record of said board, as to which said secretary may be called upon to testify in his official capacity, shall be admissible evidence in any court in this State of the existence or nonexistence of such matter. Said secretary shall be paid the sum of twenty-five cents for every such certificate, which sum shall be taxed in the costs of any proceedings pending in any court in which the same shall be offered as evidence.

SEC. 5. Every person applying for examination and registration shall pay to the State board of pharmacy ten dollars, and on passing the examination required shall be furnished, free of expense, with a certificate of registration. Every registered assistant pharmacist may, with the consent of said board, be entitled to registration as a registered pharmacist and shall be furnished with a certificate of registration, for which certificate he shall pay the registrar one dollar. Every certificate issued by said board shall be renewed annually, for which renewal one dollar shall be paid to the registrar. The fees received for examinations, registration, and certificates shall be appropriated to defray the expenses of the State board of pharmacy. The registration of every person registered by the board shall expire on the first day of July next ensuing the granting thereof; and if any person so registered shall not apply for a renewal of his registration on or before the first day of July, annually, the registrar of pharmacists shall note the fact against the name of such person, who shall thereafter cease to be a registered pharmacist or registered assistant pharmacist. Said board may, in their discretion, refuse to renew any such registration, and may at any time, for good and sufficient cause, discontinue any registration previously granted.

SEC. 6. The certificate issued by said board shall be used by the person to whom issued in but one place of business; but said board may permit such person in removing to another place of business to continue the use of such certificate with the same force and effect as in the place for which such certificate was issued. Such person removing shall notify said board of the change of his place of business, and failing so to do shall cease to be a registered pharmacist. No registered pharmacist shall be the proprietor of more than one place of business unless he shall at each place of business of which he is the proprietor, at all times when open, keep one or more registered pharmacists.

SEC. 7. Every person, not a registered pharmacist, who shall keep open shop for the retailing and dispensing of medicines and poisons, or who shall take, use, or exhibit the title of registered pharmacist, and every person who shall violate any of the provisions of this chapter shall, upon the first conviction, be fined fifty dollars and, upon the second and every subsequent conviction, shall be fined one hundred dollars; and all fines recovered shall enure, one-half thereof to the use of the State and one-half thereof to the use of the complainant: Provided, however, That in towns or parts of towns where there is no registered pharmacist within three miles, any person may sell the usual domestic medicines put up by a registered pharmacist, and marked with his label, such person procuring annually a certificate from the State board of pharmacy therefor, and paying one dollar for such certificate.

SEC. 8. Nothing herein before contained shall apply to any practitioner of medicine who does not keep open shop for the retailing, dispensing, or compounding of medicines or poisons, nor prevent him from administering or supplying to his patients such articles as he may deem fit and proper; nor shall it interfere with the

making and dealing in proprietary medicines, popularly called patent medicines, unless such medicines be wholly or in part composed of some of the articles enumerated in schedule A of this chapter, nor with the business of wholesale dealers in supplying medicines and poisons to registered pharmacists and physicians, and for use in the arts; nor shall it apply to such wholesale dealers in drugs and medicines in the trade on the twenty-sixth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, as the State board of pharmacy shall in their discretion deem suitable persons, and who shall keep and maintain in their employ one or more registered assistant pharmacists, who shall have the sole charge and care of the compounding and dispensing of all medicines and poisons sold at retail.

SEC. 9. No person shall hereafter sell, either by wholesale or retail, any of the poisons enumerated in schedule A of this chapter, without distinctly labeling the bottle, box, vessel, or paper and wrapper or cover in which said poison is contained, with the name of the article, the word poison, and the name and place of business of the seller; and every registered pharmacist selling or dispensing any of said poisons shall first enter in a book, to be kept for that purpose only, and subject always to inspection by the State board of pharmacy or any officer or agent thereof or other proper authority, and to be preserved for at least five years, a record of the same in accordance with schedule B of this chapter: Provided, That if any of said poisons form a part of the ingredients of any medicine or medicines compounded in accordance with the written prescription of a medical practitioner, the same need not be labeled with the word poison; but all prescriptions, whether or not composed in part or in whole of any of said ingredients, shall be carefully kept by the pharmacist on a file or in a book used for that purpose only and numbered in the order in which they are received or dispensed, and every box, bottle, vial, vessel, or packet containing medicines so dispensed shall be labeled with the name and place of business of the registered pharmacist so dispensing said medicine, and be numbered with a number corresponding with that on the original prescription retained by said pharmacist on such book or file. Such prescriptions shall be preserved at least five years, and shall be open to the inspection of the writer thereof, and a copy shall be furnished free of expense whenever demanded by either the writer or the purchaser thereof.

SEC. 10. Every person who shall knowingly adulterate or cause to be mixed any foreign or inert substance with any drug or medicinal substance, or any compound medicinal preparation recognized by the pharmacopoeia of the United States or of other countries, as employed in medicinal practice, with the effect of weakening or destroying its medicinal power, or who shall sell the same knowing it to be adulterated, shall, in addition to the penalties prescribed in section seven hereof, forfeit to the use of the State all articles so adulterated found in his possession and shall be deprived of the right of practicing as a pharmacist in this State thereafter. Whenever complaint shall be made of any violation of the provisions of this section, the State board of pharmacy, on being notified thereof, shall make investigation of the same, employing competent persons when necessary to make analysis of the articles alleged to be adulterated; and if such complaint shall be substantiated said board shall assist in making prosecution against the respondent.