ART. 43] COMMISSIONERS OF PHARMACY. 1251

of any person who is not a certified pharmacist, a certified
acting pharmacist or a certified assistant pharmacist, to com-
pound prescriptions or sell or dispense poisonous drugs. It
shall, however, be lawful for physicians and dentists to com-
pound and dispense their own prescriptions; but unlawful for
any person, dealer or firm, not a certified pharmacist, a certi-
fied acting pharmacist or certified assistant pharmacist, to com-
pound a physician's prescription. Any person violating this
section shall, upon conviction, be deemed guilty of a misde-
meanor, and fined not more than one hundred dollars for each
offense.
Henkel v. Millard, 97 Md. 25 and 26.

1902, ch. 179, sec. 3.

142. Every store or shop where drugs, medicines or chemi-
cals are sold at retail, displayed for sale at retail, where physi-
cians' prisciptions are compounded, which has upon it or in
it as a sign, the words "Pharmacist," "Pharmacy," "Apothe-
cary," "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.

Ibid. sec. 4.

143. 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 mem-
bers of the board of trustees, to be commissioners of phar-
macy, two of whom shall be residents of the city of Baltimore
and three residents of the counties of the State. Said com-
missioners 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 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 impar-
tially and faithfully discharge the duties prescribed herein