Chap. 159.—An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 6 and 12 of an act
approved March 3, 1886, entitled an act to incorporate the Virginia
Pharmaceutical Association, and to regulate the practice of Phar-
macy and to guard the sale of poisons in the State of Virginia.

Approved May 6, 1887.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
sections six and twelve of an act approved March three, cigh-
teen hundred and eighty-six, entitled an act to incorporate
the Virginia Pharmaceutical association, and to regulate the
pr actice of pharmacy, and to guard the sale of poisons in tbe
State of Virginia, be amended and re-enacted so as to gead as
follows:
§6. Pharmacists claiming the rights of registration under
this act on account of practical experience, shall, on or before
the first day of June, eighteen hundred and eighty -seven,
show to the satisfaction of the board of pharmacy to be created
by this act, that they have bad not less than three years prac-
tical experience in the preparation of physicians’ prescriptions
and in compounding and rending medicines and poisons: pro-
vided nothing in this’ section shall apply to any person or per-
sons in business on their own account upon the passage of
this act. Licentiates in pharmacy must have had not less
than three years experience previous to the passave of this
act, in stores where prescriptions of medical practitioners
have been prepared, or shall have passed an examination be-
fore the board of pharmacy of the State, and in all cases two
years of expericnce shall be required. The board may regis-
ter without further examination, the licentiates of such other
board of pharmacy as they may deern proper.

§ 12. Any pharmacists failing to comply with the require-
ments of sections six and cight on or before June first, eigh-
teen bundred and eighty-seven, shall forfeit his rigbt to regis-
tration, and shall appear before the board of pharmacy for
examination as provided in this act.

2. This act shall be in force from its passage.