Chap. 223.—An ACT providing for the registration of pharmacists who own
and operate drug stores and pharmacies in towns and cities of Virginia
which are divided and separated from other towns or cities in adjoining
States by the State line, and who are residents of Virginia, and lawfully
registered as pharmacists, and who own and operate drug stores or
pharmacies in the adjoining towns or cities of such adjoining States.

Approved March 15, 1910.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That in any
city or town (whether incorporated or not) in the State of Virginia, sit-
uated on and having for one of its boundaries the dividing line between
Virginia and some other State, and not any such natural barrier as would
make any adjoining town or city in another adjoining State a separate
and different community and people, it shall be lawful for any reputable
eitizen of Virginia who, while residing in such town or city in the State
of Virginia continuously for not less than five years, and has for not less
than five years been engaged in the conduct of a drug store or pharmacy
in such adjoining town or city of such other State, and as a lawfully
registered pharmacist under the laws of such adjoining State, been
engaged in selling, compounding and dispensing drugs, medicines and
prescriptions to the people of the towns or cities of both States for not
less than five years in such town or city, to remove his drug store from
such town or city of such adjoining State into such town or city in Vir-
ginia, or to buy or open and conduct a drug store or pharmacy in such
town or city in Virginia, and engage in the business of selling, com-
pounding and dispensing drugs, medicines and prescriptions, and upon
application to the State board of pharmacy of Virginia he shall be
granted a certificate as a registered pharmacist without examination on
the payment of the free prescribed by law, and on producing satisfac-
tory evidence of the reputable conduct of such pharmacy or drug store
by him, and the registration of such person as a registered pharmacist
in such other town or city of such adjoining State, and of having been
a resident of Virginia for at least five years while so engaged in conduct-
ing such pharmacy or drug store: provided, however, such certificate
shall entitle him to engage in the practice of pharmacy only in such town
or city, and shall not apply to any registered pharmacist or assistant reg-
istered pharmacist of another State who may come to Virginia to be em-
ployed by another person in selling, compounding and dispensing drugs,
medicines and prescriptions.

2. This being an emergency act under the Constitution of Virginia,
it shall be in force from its passage.