412 CITY OF BALTIMORE. [ART. 4.

the original package, box or bottle; and no penalty shall be
enforced against any person for the sale of proprietary or patent
medicines or compounds, prepared by wholesale dealers in drugs
and medicines when sold as aforesaid; and no penalty shall be
enforced against any person for the sale of proprietary or patent
medicines or drugs other than poisonous.

1873, ch. 414.

390. The Maryland college of pharmacy shall nominate
biennially, of the most skilled and competent pharmacists of the
city of Baltimore, ten persons, from amongst whom the governor
shall appoint three commissioners, whose duty it shall be to faith-
fully and impartially execute or cause to be executed, all the pro-
visions and requirements of said sections; they shall, upon appli-
cation, and in such manner and at such place as they may
determine, examine each and every person who shall desire to
engage in vending at retail, drugs, medicine or chemicals for
medicinal use, or in compounding and dispensing physicians' pre-
scriptions in the city of Baltimore, touching his competency and
qualifications; and upon being satisfied that the person so exam-
ined is competent and qualified to vend at retail, drugs, medi-
cines and chemicals for medicinal use, and compound and dispense
physicians' prescriptions safely and without jeopardy to the
health and lives of the people of the city of Baltimore, they, or
any two of them shall grant such person a certificate of compe-
tency, and register him as a pharmacist.

Ibid.

391. The commissioners so appointed shall be styled and
known as the commissioners of pharmacy and practical chemistry,
and shall hold office for two years, and thereafter until their suc-
cessors are appointed and qualified; within thirty days after
notification of their appointment they shall each subscribe to an
oath, before the clerk of the superior court of Baltimore city, to
impartially and faithfully discharge their duties; the position of
any commissioner who shall fail to so qualify within the time and
in manner named, shall be vacant, and the governor shall fill all
vacancies occurring from amongst the persons nominated by the
Maryland college of pharmacy, under the preceding section.