I have had prepared and will send copies for your entire board together with the annual report for 1886, just out. I noticed that there is a doubt of the constitutionality of the municipal act of 1887. Will you do me the favor to look over its board of health clause, which you will find in the compendium, and see what improvements you can suggest in it. If it must be re-enacted, it may as well be amended also. regards "depreciation of property" that is a matter which a board of health, as such, cannot consider. It is only as an indication of the well-founded belief that the contiguity of such establishments is dangerous to health that it should be allowed any weight.

I have the honor to be,

Yours respectfully,

BENJAMIN LEE, Secretary.

APPENDIX K.

REPORT OF THE STATE PHARMACEUTICAL EXAMINING BOARD.

A. Act establishing the board.

B. The sale of medicines and poisons by general country store keepers under the pharmacy act.

C. List of registered druggists and apothecaries in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

A. AN ACT TO REGULATE THE PRACTICE OF PHARMACY AND SALE OF POISONS, AND TO PREVENT ADULTERATIONS IN DRUGS AND MEDICINAL PREPARATIONS IN THE STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA.

WHEREAS, The safety of the public is endangered by want of care in the sale of poisons, whether to be used as such for legitimate purposes or employed as medicines and dispensed on the prescriptions of physicians;

And whereas, The ability of physicians to overcome disease depends greatly on their obtaining good and unadulterated drugs and properly prepared medicines;

And whereas, The persons to whom the preparation and sale of drugs, medicines and poisons properly belong, known as apothecaries, chemists, and druggists or pharmacists, should possess a practical knowledge of the business and science of pharmacy in all its relations; therefore,

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That hereafter no person whomsoever shall open or carry on as manager in the

State of Pennsylvania any retail drug or chemical store, nor engage in the business of compounding or dispensing medicines or prescriptions of physicians, or of selling at retail any drugs, chemicals, poisons or medicines, without having obtained a certificate of competency and qualification so to do from the state pharmaceutical examining board, and having been duly registered as herein provided.

SECTION 2. That there shall be established in the State of Pennsylvania a board, to be styled the state pharmaceutical examining board, to consist of five persons, three of whom shall constitute a quorum, who shall be appointed by the Governor from among the most skilful retail apothecaries actually engaged in said business in the State of Pennsylvania, and who must have had ten years' practical experience in the same-one to serve five years, one four years, one three years, one two years and one one year in the first instance, and thereafter annually the Governor shall appoint one person to serve as a member of said board for the term of five years. The said persons so appointed shall be and constitute the said the state pharmaceutical examining board, and shall hold the office for the term for which they were appointed, or until their successors are duly appointed and qualified, and shall receive as a compensation for their services five dollars for each day actually engaged in this service, and all legitimate and necessary expenses incurred in attending the meetings of said board under the provisions of this act, and no part of the salary of said board or expenses thereof shall be paid out of the state treasury. The said board shall organize by electing one of its members secretary, who in addition to his compensation as a member of said board shall receive a further sum, not to exceed one hundred dollars annually, for his services as secretary.

They, the said board, and each of them shall, within ten days after their appointment or being apprised of the same, take and subscribe an oath or affirmation before a properly qualified officer of the county in which they reside that they will faithfully and impartially perform the duties of their office.

Any vacancies occurring in said board shall be filled by the Governor of the State of Pennsylvania from among such only as are eligible for original appointment.

SECTION 3. The said the pharmaceutical examining board shall keep a book of registration open at some convenient place, of which due notice shall be given by advertisement in at least four newspapers in the state and so divided as to reach as nearly as practicable all parts thereof, in which book shall be registered the name and address of each and every person duly qualified under this act to conduct and carry on the retail drug and apothecary business or to hold the position of qualified assistant therein. And it shall be the duty of all per

sons now conducting, or who shall hereafter conduct, the business of retail apothecaries, or those acting in the capacity of qualified assistants therein in said state, to apply to said board and be registered as such within ninety days after such notice, and thereafter every three years. Application for registration only may be sent by mail to the secretary of the examining board after being properly attested before a notary public or any other person authorized to administer an oath or affirmation in the county in which the applicant resides.

The form of application shall be subject to such regulations as the board may see proper to adopt, but in no case shall the applicant be put to any unnecessary expense in order to secure registration.

SECTION 4. The said board shall be entitled to demand and receive from each applicant for examination and registration and for the certificate hereinafter provided a fee not to exceed two dollars, and for registration only a fee not to exceed one dollar in the first instance, and for renewing the same every three years a fee not to exceed one dollar; and the amount derived from this source shall be held by said board and be applied to the expenses and salaries herein provided. and such as may arise under the provisions of this act, and they, the said board, shall report annually to the Governor of the State of Pennsylvania all moneys received and disbursed under the provisions of this act, together with the number of pharmacists registered under

this act.

SECTION 5. That it shall be the duty of said board to meet at least once every three months in the city of Harrisburg, or at such other place as they may deem expedient, and examine all persons who shall desire to carry on the business of a retail apothecary, or that of retailing drugs, chemicals or poisons, or of compounding physicians' prescriptions, touching their competency and qualifications, and they, the said board, or a majority of them, shall grant to such persons as may be qualified certificates of competency or qualification, which shall entitle the holders thereof either to conduct or carry on the business or to act as a qualified assistant therein, as may be expressed upon the said certificate, and such certificate, together with its renewals, shall be good and sufficient evidence of registration under this act.

All persons applying for examination for certificate to entitle them to conduct and carry on the retail drug or apothecary business must produce satisfactory evidence of having had not less than four years' practical experience in the business. And those applying for exami nation for certificates as qualified assistants therein must produce evidence of having not less than two years' experience in said business. SECTION 6. That no person shall hereafter engage as manager in the business of an apothecary or pharmacist, or of retailing drugs, chemicals and poisons, or of compounding and dispensing the prescriptions

of physicians, either directly or indirectly, without having obtained such certificate as aforesaid. But nothing contained in this act shall in any manner whatever interfere with the business of any practitioner of medicine, nor prevent him from administering or supplying to his patients such articles as to him may seem fit and proper, nor shall it interfere with the making and dealing in proprietary remedies. popularly called patent medicines, nor prevent storekeepers from dealing in and selling the commonly used medicines and poisons, if such medicines and poisons conform in all respects to the requirements of section 9, provided the provisions of section 10 of this act be fully complied with.

Any person who shall violate or fail to comply with the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction before any court shall be punished by a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars, or be imprisoned in the county jail of the proper county for a term not exceeding one year, or either or both at the discretion of the court.

SECTION 7. That the foregoing provisions of this act shall not apply to or affect any person who shall be engaged in the retail drug and apothecary business as proprietor of the same or as qualified assistant therein at the passage of this act, except only in so far as relates to registration and fees provided in sections 3 and 4 of this act.

A qualified assistant, engaged in the business at the passage of this act, is one who has had not less than two years' practical experience in the retail drug and apothecary business. All other assistants actually engaged in the business at the passage of this act shall, upon the completion of a like term of two years' experience, be entitled to registration as qualified assistants without examination.

SECTION 8. That no person shall be allowed by the proprietor or manager of any store or place where prescriptions are compounded to compound or dispense the prescriptions of physicians, except under the immediate supervision of said proprietor or his qualified assistant, unless holding a properly certified certificate of registration or competency from the state pharmaceutical examining board as herein provided, and any person violating the provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars.

SECTION 9. That no person shall knowingly, wilfully, or fraudulently falsify or adulterate, or cause to be falsified or adulterated, any drug or medical substance or any preparation authorized or recognized by the pharmacopoeia of the United States, or used or intended to be used in medicinal practice, nor mix or cause to be mixed with any such drug or medicinal substance any foreign or inert substance whatsoever, for