ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR.                  301

CHAPTER 148.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Sections
229 and 240 of Article 43 of the Annotated Code of the
Public General Laws of Maryland, Edition of 1924, entitled
"Health, " sub-title "Commissioners of Pharmacy, " for the
purpose of more clearly defining a pharmacy and the prac-
tice of pharmacy within the meaning of said sub-title.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Sections 229 and 240 of Article 43 of the
Annotated Code of the Public General Laws of Maryland,
Edition of 1924, entitled "Health, " sub-title "Commissioners
of Pharmacy, " be, and the same are hereby repealed and re-
enacted, with amendments, so as to read as follows:

229. Every store or shop or other place where drugs, medi-
cines or medicinal chemicals are dispensed or sold at retail,
or displayed for sale at retail, or where physicians' prescrip-
tions are compounded, or which has upon it or displayed with-
in it or affixed to or used in connection with it, a sign bearing
the word or words, "Pharmacist, " "Pharmacy, " "Apothecary, "
"Drug Store, " "Druggist, " "Drugs, " "Medicines, " "Medicine
Store, " "Drug Sundries, " "Remedies" or any word or words;
of similar or like import, or where the characteristic show bot-
tles or globes filled with colored liquids or otherwise colored,
are exhibited or any store or shop or other place, with respect to
which any of the above words are used in any advertisement,
shall be considered a pharmacy within the meaning of this sub-
title.

240. Nothing in this sub-title shall be so construed as to
prevent, or in any way make unlawful, or interfere with, the
sale or display by general merchants, of any proprietary or
patent medicines; or the sale by such general merchants of
commonly used household or domestic remedies, in original, un-
opened packages, or farm remedies or ingredients for spray-
ing solutions, in bulk or otherwise, provided the said household
or domestic remedies are clearly labeled with the ordinary
name of the article or articles contained therein and the name
of the manufacturer or distributor thereof, or the sale by such
general merchants of doses of household or domestic remedies
to be consumed upon the premises.