SUMMARY. Number of meetings held for hearings and miscellaneous business, Number of pharmacists reinstated, . Number of cases reopened and sentences changed, Number of new stores opened during the year, Number of stores found owned by unregistered proprietors, Number of druggists convicted in court, Number of cases continued for trial, Number of cases placed on file, Number found not guilty, 17 196 Number of formal complaints made to the Board by its agent, FRED A. HUBBARD, 1 1 1 $675 21 Secretary. LAWS RELATING TO PHARMACY. CHAPTER 76, REVISED LAWS. REGISTRATION OF PHARMACISTS. SECTION 10. There shall be a board of registration in pharmacy consisting of five persons, residents of the commonwealth, who shall be skilled pharmacists, and shall have had ten consecutive years of practical experience in the compounding and dispensing of physician's prescriptions, and shall be actually engaged in the drug business. Not more than one member shall have any financial interest in the sale of drugs, medicines and chemicals, and the compounding and dispensing of physician's prescriptions in the same councillor district. One member of said board shall annually in September be appointed by the governor, with the advice and consent of the council, for a term of five years from the first day of October following, and no person appointed after the twenty-fifth day of June in the year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine shall serve as a member of said board for more than five consecutive years. SECTION 11. Said board shall meet on the first Tuesday of October in each year at such time and place as it may determine, and shall organize by electing a president and secretary, who shall be members of the board and who shall hold their offices for the term of one year. The secretary shall give to the treasurer and receiver general a bond with sufficient sureties, to be approved by the governor and council, for the faithful performance of his official duties. The board shall annually hold regular meetings on the first Tuesday of January, May and October, and additional meetings at such times and places as it shall determine. SECTION 12. Each member of the board shall receive five dollars for every day actually spent in the performance of his duties and the amount actually paid by him, not exceeding three cents a mile each way, for necessary travelling expenses in attending the meetings of the board. The bills for such compensation and his incidental and travelling expenses shall be approved by the board and paid by the commonwealth. So much of the receipts from examinations as may be necessary for the com |