The daily gazette., 1883-04-30
THE LARGEST RETAIL STOCK OF DRY
GOODS.
sTRAwBRIDaR Il CLoTHIER,
DEALERS IN DRY GOODS EXCLUSIVELY,
EIGHTH AND MARKET STREETS,
PHILADELPHIA.
THE DRUGGISTS BILL.
An Act to Regulate the Practice of Phar
macy in the state of Delaware.

An Act to Regulate the Practice of Phar-
macy in the state of Delaware.
The following is the full text of the bill
passed at the last session of the Legislature
to regulate the practice of phamacy in this
State:
WHEREAS, The skill of the physician to over
come disease depends largely upon obtaining
reliable medicines skilltully and tntelligently
WHEREAS, Many unskilled and unqualified
persons are engaged in the sale and compound
ing of drugs, medicines and chemicals, endan-
gering thereby the health and lives of the pub
lie; therefore
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of REQ
resentatiUes Of the State Of DelaUGrc, in General
assembly met:
SECTION /. On and after the first day of
August, A, ID. eighteen hundred and eighty
three, 1t shall be unlawful for any person or
| persons. unless a registered pharmacist within
| the meaning of this act, to open thereafter
| conduct any pharmacy or store vending at re-
| tail dispensing or compOunding medicine or
| poisons within the corporate limits of any
town Of five hundred inhabitants or over ex-
| cept as hereinafter provided.
SIC. 2. Amy person in order TO be registered
must he either grad date OF some reputable
| college Of pharmacy or medicine, or have had
practical experience OF three years continuously
| 0rpass an examination before the State Board
| of Pharmacy, or who shall constantly have in
his employ or service IA chief clerk, partner, OF
| assistant, with like qualifications. That the
provisions Of this Sc ;tion shall apply to those
already conducting the business while those
| desiring hereafter to establish themselves in
| the business of vending and compOunding
| medicines as a pharmacist must pass an exami-
nation before the State Board of Pharmacy,
| unless they are graduates of some recognized
college of pharmacy or medicine, or have a
chief clerk, partner, or assistant, qualified as
aforesaid.
SEC. 3. That at the annual meeting of the
State Medical Association in June
recommend from among the most
skilled and intelligent Pharmacists in
this State, five persons graduates in phar
Macy, from whom the Governor shall appoint
before the first day of July next three men
who 5 hall constitute the State Board of Phar-
macy they sh II hold their offices for three
years or until their successors duly APP
pOnted; that each member within five days
after being nOtihe0 of his appointment take an
e oath for the impartial and faithful performance
s SEC. 4. The members of said Board shall re
S eeive no cOmppnsatOns but shall be entitled tC
pay necessary expences incurred out of any
funds coming to their hands, a detailed account
i | OF which shall be carefully kept. There shal
be collected by said Board from eact
e out examination, the sum of on
dollar, and from each person undergoing
an examination as provided in section second
/. 1ve do lars. All monies remaining in tn,
hands of said Board. after paying necessary ex
penses, shall be paid to the Public SchOo
: Fund of the State.
SEC 8. That ne proprietor or manager of ,
store shall permit any clerk who has had les
than one years practical experience, to com
n pound or dispense any physician's prescrip
n tions unless under the immediate eye of tn
proprietor a qualified assistant; qualihe,
e assistant being one who has had four years
IT practical experience, or who is registered
pharmacist.
is SEQ 8. Any person or persons found vending
q dispensing or cOmpOuuding medicine in viola
tiOn of this act after the time specified in Sec
l. tOn first, shall be deemed guilty of mlsde
lie meanOr, and be liable to Indictment with I'm
and costs not less than fifty dollars nor NOR
t. than one hundred dollars for each week the
| hot httafn I'm vi NJ
SEC I. Every dispenser Of drugs shall kee
record Of all sales of strychnine, arseni
opium, or Its preparations, unless prescribed b
te physician, and the said record shall be ope
a to inspection by proper legal authority, prC
- vided that nothing in this act shall prohibit tn
I'd sale OF commercial drugs In general stores, an
Il, this section shall not be deemed to require tn
~ keeping of record in such stores of the sale
the preparations of opium