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AMENDMENT PROPOSED.

"Provided, none of the provisions of this Act shall ap-
ply to Somerset county. "

Which was rejected.

The bill was read a second time and ordered to be en-
grossed for a third reading.

House bill entitled "An Act to regulate the practice of
pharmacy in the State of Maryland. "

AMENDMENT PROPOSED.

Strike out Section 1 as offered and insert the follow-
ing:

"Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That persons on and after the first day of July
following the passage of this Act, shall open, conduct or
keep a pharmacy in this State, either as principal or
agent, unless such persons shall have obtained a pharma-
cist's license as hereinafter provided, and no pharmacy
shall, at any time, be left in charge of any person who is
not a licensed pharmacist, a licensed acting pharmacist or
a, licensed assistant pharmacist; it shall, however, be law-
ful for physicians to compound and dispense their own
prescriptions, but unlawful for any person, dealer or firm,
not a licensed pharmacist, a licensed acting pharmacist or
licensed assistant pharmacist, to compound a physicians'
prescription. "

Amend by inserting the following after the word "com-
pounded, " and before the word "and" in the 4th line:
"That any pers >n over the age of seventeen who, at the
passage of this Act, is employed as clerk or assistant in a
pharmacy in this State, and has been actively engaged
for two consecutive years in a pharmacy where physi-
cians' prescriptions are daily compounded, that any per-
son over the age of sixteen who, at the passage of this
Act, is employed as a clerk or assistant in a pharmacy in
this State, and has been actively engaged for three con-
secutive years in a pharmacy where physicians' prescrip-
tions are daily compounded. "

Add "Sec. t7. And be it further enacted, That this
Act shall take effect from the date of its passage. "

Which was adopted.

Mr. Linthicum proposed the following amendment:

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