1134 HEALTH. [ART. 43

Commissioners of Pharmacy.

1904, art. 43, sec. 141. 1902, ch. 179, sec. 2. 1906, ch. 585, sec. 2.

178. No person, on or after the 1st day of July, 1902, shall open,
conduct or keep a pharmacy in this State, either as a principal or
agent, unless such a person shall have obtained a pharmacist's certificate,
as hereinafter provided, and no pharmacy shall be at any time left
in charge of any person who is not a certified pharmacist, a certified
acting pharmacist, or a certified assistant pharmacist, to compound
prescriptions, or sell or dispense poisonous drugs; and, providing, that
in the case of a certified assistant pharmacist he shall not be left in
charge of any pharmacy in this State for a period of more than twenty-
four hours, and then acting only in the temporary absence of a certified
acting pharmacist, regularly and continuously employed in that phar-
macy. It shall, however, be lawful for physicians and dentists to
compound and dispense their own prescriptions, but unlawful for any
person, dealer or firm., not a certified pharmacist, a certified acting phar-
macist, or certified assistant pharmacist, to compound a physician's
prescription. Any person violating this section shall, upon conviction,
be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and fined not more than one hundred
dollars for each offense.
See notes to sec. 184.

Ibid. sec. 142. 1902, ch. 179, sec. 3.

179. Every store or shop where drugs, medicines or chemicals are
sold at retail, displayed for sale at retail, where physicians' prescrip-
tions are compounded, which has upon it or in it as a sign, the words
"Pharmacist," "Pharmacy," "Apothecary," "Drug Store," "Druggist,"
or any of these words or exhibits, the characteristic show bottles or
globes filled with colored liquids shall be considered a pharmacy within
the meaning of this sub-title.
See notes to sec. 184.

Ibid. sec. 143. 1902, ch. 179, sec. 4.

180. The governor shall appoint five persons who are skilled and
competent pharmacists, who have had ten years' active pharmaceutical
experience, are actively engaged in the retail drug business and not
connected with any school of pharmacy or medicine either as teachers,
instructors or members of the board of trustees, to be commissioners of
pharmacy, two or whom shall be residents of the city of Baltimore and
three residents of the counties of the State. Said commissioners shall
constitute the Maryland board of pharmacy, and shall hold office as
follows: One to serve five years, one four years, one three years, one
two years, and one one year from the first of May, 1902; in the first
instance the governor to- designate in the appointment who to serve
one, two, three, four and five years, and thereafter annually the gov-
ernor shall appoint one person to serve as a member of said board for
the term of five vears. The said commissioners shall within ten days