1866 ARTICLE 43

of Health shall have the power to inspect in a lawful manner the medicines
or drugs or drug products or domestic remedies which are manufactured,
packed, packaged, made, sold, offered for sale, exposed for sale, or kept
for sale, in the state and for this purpose shall have the right to enter
and inspect during business hours any pharmacy or any other place in the
State of Maryland where medicines or; drugs or drug products or domestic
remedies are manufactured, packed, packaged, made, sold, offered for
sale, exposed for sale, or kept for sale.

Any person who shall in any manner hinder such entry or inspection
shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof,
be fined not more than one hundred ($100) dollars for each offense.

1935, ch. 165.

246. If any provisions of Sections 241-246, or the application thereof
to any person or circumstances, is held invalid, the remainder of the Sec-
tions and the application of such provision to other persons or circum-
stances, shall not be affected thereby.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 230. 1912, sec. 180. 1904, sec. 143. 1902, ch. 179, sec. 4.

247. The governor shall appoint five persons who are skilled and com-
petent pharmacists, who have had ten years' active pharmaceutical experi-
ence, 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
of 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 there-
after annually the governor shall appoint one person to serve as a member of
said board for the term of five years. The said commissioners shall within
ten days after notification of their appointment each subscribe to an oath
before the clerk of the superior court of Baltimore City, or the clerk of the
circuit court for any county, to impartially and faithfully discharge the
duties prescribed herein. The position of any commissioner so appointed,
who shall fail to qualify within the time and in the manner hereinbefore
named shall be deemed vacant. The governor shall fill all occurring vacan-
cies from such sections of the State as will cause the board to be constituted
as hereinbefore provided.

See notes to sec. 251.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 231. 1912, sec. 181. 1904, sec. 144. 1902, ch. 179, sec. 5.
1910, ch. 494 (p. 154).

248. Said board shall organize by the election of a president, secretary
and treasurer, who shall serve for the term of one year and who shall per-
form the duties prescribed by the board. Meetings for the examinations of
applicants for registration shall be held on the first Thursday in April and
October in each year, in the city of Baltimore, or at such times and places
as may be fixed upon by the board; provided, that ten days' public notice
of the hour and place of each meeting at which there is an examination of
candidates for registration shall be given. It shall be the duty of the board