San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-05-06
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MONDAY. MAY. a. 1899.
An Act

10 regulate the pracClce OF PHARMACY
in the State of Texas and providing
penalty for the enforcement of the
same.
Section /. Be it enacted by the
legislature of the state of Texas: That
it shall be unlawful for any person,
unless qualified pharmacist within
the meaning of this act, to open or
conduct any pharmacy or store for
compromising medicines, or for any.
one not q qualified pharmacist to pre-
pare physicians prescriptions or COM
pound medicines, except under the
direct supervision of a qualified
pharmacist, as hereinafter provided.
Sec. 2. Any person.. in order to be
qualified, shall be twenty-one years
old and shall have passed satisfact-
DRY examination before the board of
Of pharmacy of Texas, or shall be a
graduate in pharmacy or an assistant
in pharmacy.
Sec. 3. Graduates in pharmacy,
shall be such as have obtained a di-
ploma from regular Incorporated
college Of pharmacy, and thatrequires
not less than two years experience in
stores where prescriptions of medical
practitioners have been compounded.
Iefore said diploma is issued.
tSec. 4. Assistants in pharmacy
must be p years old, and have had
two years. experience in stores where
prescriptions of medical practitioners
have been prepared, and shall have
passed satisfactory examination be-
fore the board of pharmacy of Texas.
Sec: 5. AS soon as convenient after
this act, the presiding Judge of the
district court, of the several judicial
districts, shall as soon as practicable,
severally appoint board of pharma-
ceutical examiners for their respective
districts, who shall hold their office
two years, which appointment shall
be in writing and signed by the Judge
making the same and deliveoed to the
person appointed. Said board of the
pharmaceutical examiners shall DE
composed of not less than three quail
fled pharmacists, who are residents of
the districts of which they are ap-
pointed. If vacancy occurs in said
board, another shall be appointed, as
aforesaid, to fill the unexpired term
Said board shall have power to make
bylaws and all the necessary regula-
tions for the proper fulfil llment of their
duties under this act.
Sec. 6. The board shall meet within
ninety days after the passage of this
act, and once year thereafter, in as
central portions of the district as prac-
ticable, and shall give one months
notice, through the public press, of
the time ard place OF such meeting.
The board shall organize for business
by electing a registrar of pharmacy.
The duties of said board shall be to
examine all applicants for registra-
ton; to direct the registration by the
registrar of all persons properly quail
fed or entitled thereto
Sec. 7. The duties of the registrar
of pharmacy shall be to keep a book
in which shall be entered, under the
supervision of the Board of Pharmacy,
the name and place of business of
every person who shall apply for reg
istration, and a statement, signed by
the person making the application, of
such Facts in the case as may claim to
justify his or her application. 1t shall
also be the duty of the registrar to
duly note the fact against the name of
any qualified pharmacist who may
have died or removed from the state,
or disposed of or relinquished his bust
ness.
Sec. s. Any person, in order to be-
come a qualified pharmacist within
the meaning of this act, shall apply
and appear for examination and regis
tration, and shall pay to the Board of
Pharmacy five dollars; and on pass
ing the examination required, shall
be furnished, free of cost, a certificate
of registration, signed by the said
board. Should said person fail to mass
a satisfactory examination, he may at
any other one meeting of the Board OF
Pharmacy, within twelve months, be
permitted to be examined without
cost.
Sec 8. Graduates, as specified in
section 3, shall apply for registration,
and if they produce satisfactory evil
dence to the Board of Pharmacy that
they have a right to be registered,
shall, upon paying the said board
three dollars. be furnished a certifi-
cate of registration without examina-
ton.
Sec. 10. Proprietors who are active
ly engaged in the preparation of
physicians prescriptions and COM
pounding and vending medicine in
the state of Texas at the passage Of
this act, shall be exempt from exam
ination; also assistants who are like
wise engaged and have been so en-
gagged for three years, and are twenty
one years old, provided he, she or
they will register as specified in this
act, at first meeting of the Board Of
Pharmacy, and upon paying the board
three dollars, shall be furnished with
a. certificate of REGISTRATION PrOyid-