The Portland daily press., 1885-04-01
1885

IN a hrm need be q registered druggist r1rovided
the partner who compounds medicines be Registered
And any physician who has q diploma as the grsJ
uate or duly established medical college and i'm
active practice, may do the business of an orotbo
cary without being registered.
Section B. FOreach examination under tbe nro
visions Ofsthis act, the commissioners sha no antj
tied TO receive from the person examined ten dol
lars except as hereinafter provided, which shall he
IN full for all services and expenses In case the re-
suit OF the examination is unsatisfactory and no
t1Icate is granted the applicant shall have the right
TO announcer examination without charge after an in
t.rVal OF two months, and within twelve months
after the date of his first examination
Secton D. Certificates of two grades or kinds
may De issued, whereof one shall declare that the
holder is skilled in pharmacy as in section four of
TINS act, and the other kind which after the exam
natlOn OF the applicants therefor NAV be issued
to such shall be not less than eighteen wears of
age and who have served two full years in an
apothecary store where physicians prescriptions
are lnpounded, shall declare that the holder ia
qua1hed assistant and is competent to take
charge OF the business of an apothecary, during
eo temporary absence OF his employer, and the fee
lars. ~
Section Z. Itshal not be lawful for an apothe-
cary store to be kept open for the sale medicines or
polsons, or Tor compou ding physicians prescrip-
tohs unless the same is placed and kept under the
personal control and supervision of a registered
apOthecary qualified assistant who is satisfactory
to the owners or heirs, may be employed to super
intend the compromising of medicines.
Section ., Any person engaged in the business
OF an apOthecary on the eleventh day of March in
the year OF our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and seVenf y-seven may receive certificate and be
registered as aforesaid on application to said COM
mlsslOners, with proof of his competency
section 3. Ii any person who was not engaged
III Che business OF an apothecary on the eleventh
gay OF March, In the year of Lord eighteen
hundred and seventy-seven, shall hereafter en-
gage IN or carry on the business of an apothecarv
contrary to the provisions of this act he shall be
supJecC 10 penalty OF fifty dollars per month upon
CONVICTION OF the first Ofense; ana of one hundred
dollars per month upon each and every subseouent
conVlcelQn, whether of continuance in said bust
ness or Tor engaging anew therein in violation of
Tue provisions or this act. And it shall be the du-
ty OF the commissioners to prosecute all such cases
as may be brough hit to their notice accompanied by
testimony; the penalty to be recovered by an action
OF debt IN the name of the county ATTORNEY in any
court OF competent jurisdiction, to be paid into the
section1 TO- The provisions of this act shall ann1v
III Cne cases or women who shall hereafter enter
upon and carry on the business of apothecaries
oectlon IL. This act shall not apply in the case
or physicians who prepare and dispense their own
tons. = P
Section IL. All acts and parts of acts inconsis-
tent with this act are hereby repealed.
Section Is. Any person NAV enter upon the bus-
mess OF an apothecary without the certificate re-
CURED by the foregoing act; provided he does not
personally do the duties of an upothecary but en-
ploys duly registered apothecary who has sole
charge OF compromising, putting up and dispensing
euclnes and drugs under the provisions of this act
Section IA. No action now pending by virtue of
secton SIX OF chapter twenty-eight of the revised
statutes snail be maintained except as to COSTS or
lofIelture incurred prior to the approval of this
act.
Section 49,. The word apothecary as used in this
acC snall not include persons who do not compound
medlclnes put up prescriptions or sell pOisons
Section Is. This act shall take effect when ap-
proved. approved March 6, 1851
Chapter $50.
AN ACT to facilitate the abolition of school dis
tr1ctS by towns
BE 1t enacted, etc., as follows:
section |. Whenever any town shall have abol-
ished Its school districts, provided in section
Jnree or chapter eleven of the revised statutes
such action shall be held to abolish all union dis
tr1cts formed by said town in concurrence with
other towns as provided in section seventy-one of
said chapter, and all districts which may have
been specially chartered by act of legislature In
case of the abolition of any such union district
Wnen the sehool-house belonging thereto is situate
WlChln the town abolishing, such town shall take
possession OF said house with all the appurtenances
thereuntO belonging, in case of districts wholly
within the town, but shall pay to the town or
towns in which is situated the other part or parts
OF such district, for the benefit and use of such
Other part or parts, sum equal to such portion of
the value OF said house and appurtenances as such
part or parts shall be in equity entitled to- the
same to be determined by agreement of the munic-
lpal officers OF the towns out of which such union
district has been formed, or in case such officers
cannot so agree, by board of referees by them
agreed upon. In case the school-house belonging
TO such union district is not within the town abo-
lshng said town shall pay to the inhabitants of it's
part OF said district by abatement upon their taxes,
d sum equal to their equitable interest in such
scnool-nouSe and appurtenances, the same to be
determined by the municipal officers of said town.
section = Whenever any town shall have abol-
1shed its school DISTRICTS such districts shall not be
after
Section 8. All acts and part of acts inconsistent
herewith are hereby repealed. [App. Mar. g. 1851
Chapter 3sa.
AN ACT entitled an "Act amendatory to section
tWenty-four of chapter seventy eight, Revised
Statutes relating to the duties of County Com
mssiOners."
Be 1T enacted, etc as follows:
Section twenty-four of chapter seventy -eight of
the revised statutes is hereby amended by striking
out the word sCnmberland.,, in the first line. and