440 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

492. Whenever the Commissioner of Health shall certify
in writing to the Mayor that it is necessary for the health of
the City to alter the grade of any street, lane or alley on low or
made ground, the Mayor shall proceed to act in the manner
specified in this Article relating to streets.

Chemical Laboratories.

493. No person shall erect or assist in erecting any chemi-
cal laboratory within the limits of said City without the con-
sent of the City, and the City may provide by ordinance for
preventing the erection of any such laboratory, and for remov-
ing or preventing the use of any that shall be erected.

Commissioners of Pharmacy and Practical Chemistry.

494. The term or name pharmacist in the meaning and
scope of this sub-division of this Article does mean, embrace
and apply to all persons engaged in vending, at retail, drugs,
medicines and chemicals for medicinal use, and in compound-
ing and dispensing physicians' prescriptions, either as owners
of stores, as managing assistants, or as relief clerks in tempo-
rary charge of stores.

495. Any person who, after the passage of this Article, does
or shall vend at retail poisonous drugs for medicinal use, or
compound or dispense physicians' prescriptions in the City of
Baltimore, without complying with the requirements of this
sub-division of this Article, shall be deemed guilty of a misde-
meanor, and be subject to a penalty or fine of fifty dollars for
each and every week he shall continue to vend, at retail, pois-
onous drugs for medicinal use, or compound or dispense
physicians' prescriptions in violation of this sub-division of
this Article ; said penalty or fine to be sued for in the name
of the State of Maryland before a Justice of the Peace, as small
debts are now recoverable; said penalty or fine to go to the
Maryland Board of Pharmacy, appointed under this sub-di-
vision of this Article, to be used as a fund for carrying out the
provisions of this sub-division of this Article ; and it shall be
the duty of the State's Attorney of the City of Baltimore, at the
request of said Board of Pharmacy, to prosecute any person