CHAPTER 414.
AN ACT to prevent incompetent persons from con-
ducting business as pharmacists, or vending at
retail, drugs, medicines or chemicals, for medicinal
use, in the City of Baltimore, and repealing the
Act entitled " an Act to prevent incompetent per-
sons from conducting the business of druggist or
apothecary in the City of Baltimore, passed Jan-
uary session, eighteen hundred and seventy,
chapter one hundred and four.
WHEREAS, Many unskilled and unqualified per-
sons are engaged in vending at retail, mixing and
compounding drugs, medicines and chemicals, to the
great danger of the health and lives of the people of
the City of Baltimore, and as it is expedient that
legislation be had to remedy said evil, therefore,
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of'
Maryland, That the term or name " Pharmacists,"
in the meaning and scope of this Act, does mean,
embrace and apply to all persons engaged in vend-
ing at retail, drugs, medicines and chemicals for
medicinal use, and in compounding and dispensing
physicians' prescriptions, either as owners of stores
or as managing assistants in charge of stores.
SEC. 2. And be it enacted. That any person who,
after the passage of tills Act, does vend or retail i
drugs, medicines or chemicals for medicinal use, or
compound and dispense physicians' prescriptions in
the City of Baltimore, without complying with the
requirements of tins Act, unless he shall be employed
under the circumstances contemplated in section
nine, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and
subject to a penalty or fine of fifty dollars for each
and every week he shall continue to vend at retail,
drugs medicines or chemicals for medicinal use, or
compound and dispense physicians' prescriptions in
the City of Baltimore, without complying with all
the requirements of this Act; said penalty or fine to
be sued for in the name of the Commissioners of
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