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ney for the District of Columbia to prosecute

ney for the District of Columbia to prosecute
all violations Of this act"
I assert. without fear of contradiction. that
the commissioners Of pharmacy have faithfully
performed all the duties required by this act.
Assistant Pharmacies" says that they have
only executed one provision, which is ''that of
registering" and that such registration was
only continued about two weeks. In answer,
have to say that II any one will refer to the files
Of THE EVENING STAR, the Republican or the
Post for August or September. q might also say
for the latter part Of july 1873 he will find an
advertisement notifying all pharmacists and
assistants liable to and entitled to registration
to present themselves within sixty days from a
certain date therein mentioned for registration
at the rooms Of the National College of Phar-
macy, Colonization building. The secretary and
perhaps one or more Of the commissioners were
present three days of each aceek for tpo months
receiving applications and registering all en-
titled to be registered without examination.
For every application. them three dollars had to
De paid, no more no less. When Assistant
Pharmacist" says he was ga victim" and had to
pay the commissioners Of pharmacy 1926 for
registration, he utters a falsehood. l do not
pretend to say that it did not cost him that
much, but do say that the secretary Of the
commissioners never received from him more
than three dollars. He defames the commits
slOnerS in so saying. The truth of the matter is
this. OF about three hundred and twenty phar-
macists to be registered it was necessarily to be
expected that some would be strangers to the
commissioners. To be just to all, it was resolved
by the commissioners that every one. young or
old, great or SMALL should be required to sub
scribe to an oath in answer to questions pro-
pounded to them as to their claims for regstra-
ton. To relieve all from the expense Of going
before ''nOtary public" the secretary, Mr..
Becker. was, at the solicitation of the cOmpis-
sloners OF pharmacy appointed a 'notarv pub
lie" and administered to all presenting them
selves. when necessary. the requisite oath NTH
out charge.
The registration Of poisons is not made duty
liable to inspection or interference by the COM
missioners of pharmacy. The law makes it the
duty of all pharmacists to register the sales of
certain pOsons
I'm conclusion have to say that it is as much
the duty of assistant Pharmacist and the pub
lie in general to attend to this business as any
one else. If assistant Pharmacist" will lodge
complaints with Col Corkhill or his assistant,
Mr.. Randolph Coyle. have no doubt that his
grievances will be redressed. Every one within
the District of Columbia is interested in having
the law executed. ! may say that in this case
the public is most to blame. We're only those
stores where either registered pharmacists are
employed or the proprietor gives his personal
supervision to the business patrOniZed the evil
would soon be remedied. The public can in
do so by either withdrawing patronage from
vlolatOrs of the law or seeing that they prose-
cuted as the law provides, then things must 60
on as now. 1t is hardly to be expected that the
commissioners of pharmacy will draw upon
themselves the Odium attaching to the spy and
infOrmer, when the law does not clearly require
them to do so. would like to see the law en-
forced in ali Details but do not feel it my duty
to demand its strict enforcement. l beg leave
to say that this is neither written nor inspired
by commissioner of pharmacy.
MEMBER OF NATL COLLEGE OF PHARMACY.