ART. 4.] HEALTH. 411

CHEMICAL LABORATORIES.

P L L., (1860,) art. 4, sec. 149.

387. No person shall erect or assist in erecting any chemical
laboratory within the limits oi said city without the consent of
the mayor and city council; and the mayor and city council may
provide by ordinance for preventing the erection of any such
laboratory, and for removing or preventing the use of any that
shall be erected.

COMMISSIONERS OF PHARMACY AND PRACTICAL CHEMISTRY.

1872, ch 414.

388. The term or name pharmacist, in the meaning and scope
of the ten following sections, shall mean, embrace and apply to
all persons engaged in vending 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.

1878, ch 91.

389. Any person who does or shall vend at retail, poisonous,
drugs for medicinal use, or compound and dispense physicians,
prescriptions in the city of Baltimore, without complying with
the requirements of said sections, 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 poisonous
drugs for medicinal use, or compound and dispense physicians'
prescriptions, in violation of said sections; said penalty or fine to
be sued for in the name of the commissioners of pharmacy and
practical chemistry, appointed under section 390, and before a
justice of the peace, as small debts are recoverable; one
half thereof to be paid to the board of public school commis-
sioners of said city, and the other half to the treasurer of the
Maryland college of pharmacy, for the use of said college; pro-
vided, however, that said sections shall not be so construed as to
apply to or restrict the sale at retail of patent and proprietary
medicines and compounds, prepared and compounded for medici-
nal use by wholesale dealers in drugs and medicines, when sold in