Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-03-23
10 REMAIN AT WORK.
ATroRNEY-GESERAL ADVISES MN
RICHARDSON TO HOLD ON.
WANT TO BECOME PHARMACISTS.
fiftS-one Applicants Examined NV
the state Board-PhHrr,aci.t. Like
'he new Lnw-income from Cbar-
ter Fees-worIx for Cour, ct.rt

N''oihey-Ieneral Montague has advised
MT ). w Richardson TO continue the dis
charge OF his duties as Register of the
Lana once and superintendent OF Cant
tol Building and Grounds.
Mr. Richardson recently asked Mr.
Montague's opinion as to whether he
should continue to discharge the duties
OF the office, pending the decision Of the
supreme Court as TO whether IT had
been abolished, and the duties transferred
TO the Secretary Of the Commonwealth.
MIR. MONTAGUES OPINION.
Mr.. Montague yesterday wrote Mr..
Richardson the following letter:
Oiiice OF Attorney-General of Virginia.
Richmond, March % 1898.
MI John w. Richardson, Register Of the
Land Office. Richmond, Va:
Sr'-ln response 20 your enquiry. /
would advise that you continue the dis
charge of the duties of Register Of the
Land Office, &c, until it is iudiclally de-
termined whether its duties have teen
conferred upon any other officer of the
state. Very respectfully,
"A. j. MONTAGUE,
Attorney General"
a great deal Of work has accumulated
IN the Land Office since the adjournment
OF the Legislature, requiring immediate
attention and official signature. There
Is also needed attention to the building
and grounds but Mr.. Richardson did not
care to act in either case without au-
thority owing to the diversity Of opinion
as to whether the Office had been abolish
ed. He therefore referred the matter
to the Attorney General Monday. with
tho result given above.
Mr.. Richardson will, therefore continue
TO discharge the duties OF the office. at
least until the Supreme Court decides
as TO who Is legally the Register. Mr..
Montague has not yet given an opinion
as TO the proper method of procedure to
determine the latter question.
Fffty-One Prospective Druggists.
The State Board Of Pharmacy yesterday
examined fifty-one applicants for certif-
Gates as Pharmacists. Thirty-three Of those
examined wished TO become registered
pharmacists. and eighteen assistant phar-
macists. The examination was held in
the han Of the House Of Delegates. There
was one lady examined. and one negro.
The result Of the examination will be
announced Thursday afternoon. the board
remaining in session until that time.
A member of the board was asked yes
terday If the examination was difficult
1t would not be proper for me TO say"
he replied THE applicants who will
get through all right say it is easy; those
who will fail say it is impossible, Un-
fair, and so on
LIKE THE NEW LAW.
The members Of the board are pleased
with the action of the last Legislature in
amending section 1853 of the Code Of Vir-
ginia in relation to the practice of phar-
macy. Formerly the law provided that i'm
towns where there is no resident phar-
macists, physicians might compound and
sell medicine and prescriptions, If they
have been practicing medicine for at
least five years. The members of the
State Board of Pharmacy and other
members of the profession were very anx-
ious to have the law so modified as to
prohibit physicians from compromising
and selling medicine within three miles
of a resident pharmacist.
This proposition, however, did not suit
the Senate for that body passed a bill
introduced by Senator Turnbull, Of Lunen-
burg, amending the existing law by
striking out the provision requiring ply
sicians TO have practiced medicine for
five years before they could be allowed
to sell and compound medicine. When SEN
dlOT luINDull Dill reached the House or
Delegates, Mr.. c. II. Jennings, of Wash |
inston county, offered an amendment to |
the bill providing that i'm rural districts |
and in towns having a population of 1900 |
or less, so long as there is no registered |
pharmacist in that town, any physician |
recognized by the Medical Society of Vir- |
ginia may act as pharmacist without |
examination, but subject To registration |
and removal as provided by law.
This amendment was agreed 10 by the |
House and subsequently concurred in |
by the Senate, and the act was approved |
by Governor Tyler on March I'd
Increases Their Work.
The last General Assembly did not make
many friends among the clerks of the va
riOus courts of record Of the State, as a
great amount Of additional work was put
upon them by a new law. This law is
found i'm Chapter 7OS of the Acts Of 1S97-'9S,
which amends section 1929 of the code so
as to require record to be kept of money
under the control of courts. The section
i'm question provides that whenever any
court shall order any money under its
control to be deposited in a banking in
stitution, the person making the deposit
shall deliver the certificate of deposit to
the clerk of the court in which the order
was entered.
This clerk shall file the certificate in the
papers of the suit i'm which the order was
made. and keep the record Of that money
in q book. showing the style of suit, the
7ote Of the order of the deposit, the