Chap. 647.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1759 of the code of Virginia,
in relation to the practice of pharmacy, as amended and re-enacted by an act
approved March 5, 1894.

Approved March 2, 1898.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, that section
seventeen hundred and fifty-nine of the code of Virginia, in relation
to the practice of pharmacy, as amended and re-enacted by an act ap-
proved March fifth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, to be amended and
re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 1759. Qualification of members, and so forth.—It shall not be law-
ful for any person not a registered pharmacist to open or control as pro-
prietor or manager any retail drug or chemical store, or pharmaceutical
department thereof, in this state, unless he shall have in his employ and
place in charge of such store or pharmacy, or in the pharmaceutical
department thereof, a registered pharmacist within the meaning of this
chapter, who shall have the supervision and the management of that
part of the business requiring pharmaceutical skill and knowledge.
And it shall not be lawful for any person to engage in the business or
occupation of compounding or dispensing medicines on prescriptions of
physicians or otherwise, or of selling at retail any drugs, chemicals,
poisons or pharmaceutical preparations, within this state, without first
obtaining a certificate of registry, as provided in this chapter: provided,
nothing in this section shall apply to or in any manner interfere with
the regular practice of any physician or veterinary surgeon, or prevent
from supplying to his patients such articles as he may deem proper, un-
less such physician or veterinary surgeon keep open his shop for the dis-
pensing of such articles, or with the making or vending of patent or
proprietary medicines by any retail dealer in the original packages, or
with the manufacture or the exclusive wholesale business of any dealer;
and provided further, that in rural districts and in towns having a popu-
lation of fifteen hundred or less, so long ag there is no registered phar-
macist in said town, any physician recognized by the Medical society of
Virginia, may act as a pharmacist without examination, but subject to
such registration and removal as is provided for in this act.

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