ART. 43. ] COMMISSIONERS OF PHARMACY. 81

Commissioners of Pharmacy.
1902, ch. 179, sec. 2. 1906, ch. 585, sec. 2.

141. No person, on or after the 1st day of July following
the passage of this sub-title, 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, provided, 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 unlaw-
ful for any person, dealer or firm, not a certified pharmacist, a
certified acting pharmacist, or certified assistant pharmacist, to
compound a physician's prescription. Any person violating
this section shall, upon conviction, be deemed guilty of a mis-
demeanor and fined not more than one hundred dollars for
each offense.

1902, ch. 179, sec. 13. Ibid. sec. 3.

149. Every person receiving a pharmacist's or assistant
pharmacist's certificate, shall keep the same conspicuously
posted in his place of business. Violation of this section shall
be punishable by a fine of $25 in each instance.

Ibid. sec. 14A.

151. It shall be within the power of the Maryland board of
pharmacy to enter into reciprocal relations with the boards of
pharmacy of such other States as do likewise, and whose require-
ments are satisfactory as regards the awards and interchanging
of certificates for registration of registered pharmacists. Appli-
cants for registration under this clause to produce satisfactory
documents bearing upon his previous examination from the
secretary of that board, and paying the secretary of the Mary-
land board of pharmacists the accustomed fee. Applicants,