§ 16. The provisions of this Act shall not apply to the commissioned surgical officers of the United States Army, Navy or Marine Hospital service when in the actual performance of their official duties, or to any physician duly registered under the laws of this State, or to legally registered chiropodists of another state taking charge of the practice of a legally registered chiropodist of this State temporarily during the latter's absence therefrom, by permission of the Director of Registration and Education.

17. The Circuit Court of the county where any of the parties defendant may be found shall, by writ of certiorari, to the Department of Registration and Education, have power to review any decision or order refusing or revoking a permit under the provisions of this Act. Such writ shall be issued by the clerk of such court upon praecipe. Service may be had upon the Director of Registration and Education, and service upon other parties, if any in interest, shall be by scire facias; or service may be had upon the Director of Registration and Education and other parties in interest, by mailing notice of the commencement of the proceedings and the return day of the writ, to the office of the Department of Registration and Education, and the last known place of residence of the other parties, if any in interest, at least ten days before the return day of said writ, or any party in interest may commence a suit in chancery in the Circuit Court of the county where any of the parties defendant may be found to review the decision of the Director of Registration and Education. Such suit of writ of certiorari or in chancery shall be commenced within ten days after the receipt of notice of the decision of the Director of Registration and Education.

It shall be competent for the Supreme Court to review any final decision of the Circuit Court under this Act, upon certiorari, in accordance with the provisions of section 121 of an Act entitled: "An Act in relation to practice and procedure in courts of record," approved June 3, 1907, in force July 1, 1907, as subsequently amended.

AN ACT to amend section 4 of an Act entitled, “An Act to regulate the practice of pharmacy in the State of Illinois, to make an appropriation therefor, and to repeal certain Acts therein named," approved May 11, 1901, in force July 1, 1901, and to add thereto a new section to be known as section 4a.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That section 4 of an Act entitled, "An Act to regulate the practice of pharmacy in the State of Illinois, to make an appropriation therefor, and to repeal certain Acts therein. named," approved May 11, 1901, in force July 1, 1901, be amended and

that said Act be further amended by adding thereto a new section to be known as section 4a, which said section as amended and said additional section shall read as follows:

4. Any person shall be entitled to registration as a registered pharmacist who is of the age of twenty-one years or over, of good moral character and temperate habits, a graduate from a college of pharmacy, school of pharmacy, or department of pharmacy of a university which is recognized by the Department of Registration and Education, and who shall furnish proofs of four years' experience and who shall have passed a satisfactory examination before the Department of Registration and Education. Actual time of attendance at a recognized college of pharmacy, school of pharmacy, or department of pharmacy of a university, but not to exceed two years, shall be accredited upon the required experience of four years. The remainder of the experience required must have been in compounding and dispensing drugs, medicines and poisons under the supervision of a registered pharmacist, in a drug store or pharmacy where the prescriptions of medical practitioners are compounded.

Provided, and [an] applicant for registration as a registered pharmacist who was registered by the board of pharmacy as an apprentice, assistant pharmacist or local registered pharmacist prior to July 1, 1917, shall be exempt from the requirements of graduation from a recognized college of pharmacy, school of pharmacy, or department of pharmacy of a university, but actual time of attendance at such colleges, schools, or departments, not to exceed two years, shall be accredited upon the required experience of four years.

Provided further, that a physician who holds a license issued by the State Board of Health or by the Department of Registration and Education shall not be required to furnish any proofs of drug store experience or proofs of having graduated from a recognized college of pharmacy, school of pharmacy, or department of pharmacy of a university.

The Department of Registration and Education shall make rules to establish a uniform and reasonable standard of educational requirements to be observed by colleges of pharmacy, schools of pharmacy or departments of pharmacy of universities, and may determine the reputability of such colleges, schools and departments of pharmacy by reference to their compliance with such rules.

Every applicant for registration as a registered pharmacist shall pay to the Department of Registration and Education the sum of $10.00 at the time of filing an application. The payment of said $10.00 shall entitle the applicant to take a second examination in case he failed in the first, but no more; provided, said second examination is taken within six months after the first; and upon the payment of an additional $5.00 in case the applicant passes a successful examination, the Department of Registration and Education shall issue to him a certificate as a registered pharmacist.

§ 4a. The Department of Registration and Education may, in its discretion, grant certificates of registration as registered pharmacists to such persons as shall furnish with their applications satisfactory proofs that they have been registered by examination in some other state requiring a degree of competency equal to that required of applicants in this State: Provided, that an applicant shall have filed proofs of experience in the state in which he is registered by examination which would have entitled him at that time, to take an examination for registered pharmacist in this State; and, provided, further, that such other states shall accord like privileges to applicants who hold registered pharmacist certificates issued by examination in this State.

AN ACT to amend section 14a of an Act entitled, "An Act to regulate the practice of pharmacy in the State of Illinois, to make an appropriation therefor, and to repeal certain Acts therein named," approved May 11, 1901, in force July 1, 1901, as amended by an Act approved May 13, 1903, in force July 1, 1903, as amended by Act approved June 3, 1907, in force July 1, 1907, as amended by Act approved and in force January 17, 1908, as amended by Act approved June 10, 1911, in force July 1, 1911, as amended by Act approved June 23, 1915, in force July 1, 1915.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That section 14a of an Act entitled, "An Act to regulate the practice of pharmacy in the State of Illinois, to make an appropriation therefor, and to repeal certain Acts therein named," approved May 11, 1901, in force July 1, 1901, as amended by an Act approved May 13, 1903, in force July 1, 1903, as amended by Act approved June 3, 1907, in force July 1, 1907 as amended by Act approved and in force January 17, 1908, as amended by Act approved June 10, 1911, in force July 1, 1911, as amended by Act approved June 23, 1915, in force July 1, 1915, be amended to read as follows:

§ 14a. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to sell, barter, exchange, distribute or give away any opium or coca leaves, or any compound, manufacture, salt, derivative or preparation thereof, except in pursuance of the written prescription of a licensed physician, licensed dentist or licensed veterinarian, who is registered with the United States collector of internal revenue in the district in which he resides, in accordance with the provisions of an Act of Congress entitled, "An Act to provide for the registration of, with collectors of internal. revenue, and to impose a special tax upon all persons who produce, import, manufacture, compound, deal in, dispense, sell, distribute, or give away opium or coca leaves, their salts, derivatives, or preparations, and for other purposes," approved December 17, 1914; said prescription shall

contain the name and address of the person for whom prescribed (or if prescribed by a veterinarian, shall state the kind of animal for which prescribed and the name of the owner thereof), shall be dated as of the day it is signed, and shall also be dated as of the day it is filled, shall not be altered or changed by any person except the physician, dentist or veterinarian by whom it is signed, and shall be retained on file by the person, firm or corporation by whom the same is filled for a period of not less than two years and it shall be filled but once, and of it no copy shall be made by any person except for the purpose of record by the physician, dentist or veterinarian by whom it is signed, or by the Department of Registration and Education and officers of the law, and it shall at all times be open to the inspection of the prescriber, the Department of Registration and Education and all officers of the law.

Nothing contained in this section shall apply:

(a) To the dispensing or distribution of any of the substances mentioned in this section to a patient by a licensed physician, licensed dentist, or licensed veterinarian, who is registered under the Act of Congress herein mentioned, in the course of his professional practice only: Provided, that such physician, dentist or veterinarian shall keep a record of all such drugs dispensed or distributed, showing the amount dispensed or distributed, the date, and the name and address of the patient to whom such substances are dispensed or distributed (if a veterinarian, the kind of animal for which such substances are dispensed or distributed and the name of the owner thereof), except such as may be dispensed or distributed to a patient upon whom such physician, dentist or veterinarian shall personally attend; and such record shall be kept for a period of two years from the date of dispensing or distributing such substances, subject to inspection by the Department of Registration and Education and all officers of the law. The making of any record required by any other law of this State, or of the United States, which record shall set forth the facts above required to be stated shall be deemed sufficient compliance with the provisions of this section.

(b) To sales made by a manufacturer of any of the drugs mentioned, or a wholesale dealer in drugs, or a retail druggist, to other such manufacturers, wholesale dealers in drugs, or retail druggists; or to sales made to manufacturers of medicinal preparations for use in such preparations only, or to sales made to hospitals, colleges, scientific or public institutions, or to licensed physicians, licensed dentists or licensed veterinarians, in accordance with the provisions of the Act of Congress herein mentioned.

(c) To the sale, distribution, giving away or dispensing by persons registered under the provisions of the Act of Congress herein mentioned, of preparations and remedies which do not contain more than two grains of opium, or more than one-fourth grain of morphine, or more than one-eighth grain of heroin, or more than one grain of codeine, or any salt or derivative of any of them in one fluid ounce, or if a solid or semi-solid preparation in one avoirdupois ounce; or to liniments, ointments or other preparations which are prepared for external use only, except liniments, ointments and other preparations which contain co

caine or any of its salts, or alpha or beta eucaine, or any of their salts: Provided, that all such preparations shall contain other active drugs in sufficient proportions to confer upon them other and additional medicinal properties than those possessed by the unmixed drugs, salts or alkaloids specified in this section: And, provided, further, that all such drugs, preparations or mixtures are sold, dispensed or distributed for use as medicines, and not for the purpose of evading the intentions of this section.

(d) To the sale of decocainized coca leaves or preparations made therefrom, or to other preparations of coca leaves which do not contain cocaine, or to constituents or derivatives of opium or coca leaves or to synthetic substitutes therefor, which do not possess narcotic or habitforming properties.

It shall be unlawful for any person to falsely assume or use the title licensed physician, licensed dentist or licensed veterinarian or to falsely assume or use any other professional title or degree or abbreviation thereof, or to counterfeit or forge the name of a licensed physician, licensed dentist or licensed veterinarian to a prescription, or order, or to falsely represent himself to be a manufacturer of drugs and medicines, wholesale dealer in drugs or retail druggist, for the purpose of obtaining any of the substances specified in this section.

APPROVED June 25, 1917.

(HOUSE BILL No. 1033. FILED JUNE 28, 1917.)

AN ACT to amend an Act entitled, 'An Act to require fire-fighting equipment and other means for the prevention and controlling of fires and the prevention of loss of life from fires in coal mines,' approved and in force March 8, 1910, as subsequently amended, by amending sections two (2) and six (6) thereof."

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That an Act entitled, "An Act to require fire-fighting equipment and other means for the prevention and controlling of fires and the prevention of loss of life from fires in coal. mines," approved and in force March 8, 1910, as subsequently amended, be and the same is hereby amended, by amending sections two (2) and six (6) thereof to read as follows:

§ 2. (a) There shall be provided a supply of water for fighting fire underground which shall have a head from a standing body in a pipe, tank or pond.

(b) Such water supply shall be conducted into the mine in an iron or steel pipe or pipes not less than two inches in diameter, which shall