JOHN WALTER SMITH, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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shall open, conduct or keep a pharmacy in this State, either as
a principal or agent, unless such person shall have obtained a
pharmacist's certificate, as hereinafter provided, and no
pharmacy shall at any time be 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. It shall, however, be
lawful for physicians and dentists to compound and dispense
their own prescriptions; but unlawful for any person, dealer
or firm, not a certified pharmacist, a certified acting phar-
macist 'or certified assistant pharmacist, to compound a
physician's prescription. Any person violating this section
shall, upon conviction, be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor,
.and fined not more than one hundred dollars for each offence.

SEO. 3. And be it further enacted. That every store or

CHAP. 179.

Who are
permitted to
open,
conduct or
keep a
pharmacy.

shop where drugs, medicines or chemicals are sold at retail,
displayed for sale at retail, where physicians' prescriptions are
compounded, which has upon it or in it as a sign, the words
"Pharmacist," "Pharmacy," "Apothecary," "Drug Store,"
" Druggist," or any of these words or exhibits, the character-
istic show bottles or globes tilled with colored liquids, shall be
considered a pharmacy within the meaning of this Act.

What is
considered a
pharmacy.

SEO. 4. And be it further enacted, That on or before the first
day of May following the passage of this Act, the Governor
shall appoint five persons who are skilled and competent phar-
macists, Who have had ten years' active pharmaceutical expe-
rience, 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 tive years, one four years, one three years, one two
years and one one year from the first of May next ; in the
first instance the Governor to designate in the appointment
who to serve one, two, three, four and tive years, and there-
after annually the Governor shall appoint one person to serve

Commis-
sioners of
pharmacy
appointed.

as a member of said board for the term of tive 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 of any county, to impartially and faithfully dis-
charge the duties prescribed by this Act. The position of any
commissioner appointed under this Act, who shall fail to
qualify within the time and in the manner hereinbefore

Oath to be
taken.