Fred. B. McGuire, Marshall Brown, D. C. Forney, William H. Phillip, Richard Smith, I. N. Burritt, A. C. Buell, S. L. Phelps, J. F. Eunis, J. G. Berret, E. F. Riggs, T. L. Hume, J. M. Mason, T. E. Roessle, L. B. Cutler, W. B. Todd, H. H. Blackburn, R. K. Elliott, R. W. Tyler, Levi Woodbury, J. W. Boteler, William G. Moore, Thomas O. Hills, J. L. Barbour, S. II. Kauffman, Thomas Russell, J. W. Thompson, William Thompsou, H. W. Hamilton, W. B. Reed, W. H. Clagett, W. R. Smith, A. Middleton, S. C. McDowell, L. G. Hine, L. A. Gobright, C. M. Alexander, and their associates and assigns, be, and they are hereby, created a body corporate under the name of the National Fair May hold real Grounds Association, with authority to purchase and hold in fee-simple not exceeding two hundred acres of land anywhere in the District of Columbia, without the limits of the cities of Washington and Georgetown, and to erect suitable buildings and make suitable improvements thereon, for the care, preservation, improvement, and exhibition of products of the soil, of domestic animals, and of the products of mechanical, scientific, and artistic skill, ingenuity, and invention. estate. Capital stock. Subscriptions for stock. Proceedings organize. SEC. 2. That the capital stock of said corporation shall be not less than twenty-five thousand dollars nor more than two hundred thousand dollars, divided into shares of one hundred dollars each. SEC. 3. The persons herein before named, or a majority of them, shall, within ten days after the approval of this act, open books and receive subscriptions for such capital stock at such time or times and place or places as they shall deem proper; and may appoint persons to superintend the receiving of subscriptions and to receive money payable thereon; to may call a meeting of subscribers at such time and place and with such notice as they shall deem proper, after the minimum amount of capital aforesaid shall be subscribed; and may do all other acts necessary and proper to constitute and organize the said corporation until the first board of directors shall be elected, including the power in person, or through persons appointed by them, or a majority of them, to superintend, conduct, and certify that election. First board of directors. ers, etc. SEC. 4. That at the meeting of subscribers to be called as aforesaid, or at any meeting called by adjournment thereof from time to time, there shall be elected a board of five directors; and from the time of such election the said corporation shall be completely organized and constiCorporate pow- tuted, with all the faculties, rights, and privileges which lawfully belong to corporations generally, so far as the same shall be necessary for the purposes of its incorporation, including perpetual succession; the right to have and use a common seal, and to change the same at pleasure; the power to purchase, receive, acquire, hold, lease, dispose of, and manage real estate in the District of Columbia outside the limits of the cities of Washington and Georgetown not exceeding two hundred acres, and personal property not exceeding two hundred thousand dollars in value; the right to sue and be sued, and to transact its business in the said corporate name; the power to appoint officers, agents, and servants; the power to make contracts, and to make all by-laws, rules, and regu lations which may be deemed expedient and not contrary to law; and to prescribe the sources from which revenue may be derived, not inconTerm of direct- sistent with law. The board of directors shall hold their offices for one year and until their successors shall be elected by the stockholders in general meeting. A majority of said board shall be a quorum, and all shall be stockholders of the corporation. They shall elect one of their number president and another vice president, and a secretary, whose Stockholders' terms of oflice shall be the same as the board of directors. The board may call a general meeting of the stockholders at any time, or the same may be done by persons holding one-third of the stock of the corporaRemoval of offi- tion, and any officer of the corporation may be removed on vote of a majority of the stock thereof represented at such meeting, and his successor elected to fill his place. One week's notice in some newspaper of general circulation in said District shall be required to call said meeting. ors. Quorum. meetings. cers. SEC. 5. That the said shares of stock shall be personal property to all intents. Certificates thereof may be issued in such form as the board of directors shall prescribe, and may be transferred in such manner as the by-laws may prescribe, but no share shall be transferred until all calls or assessments previously made thereon shall have been paid up. There shall be on each share of stock not less than five dollars at the time of subscribing, and the residue shall be paid from time to time whenever assessed or called for by the board of directors. Upon default in the payment of any sum due on any subscription, the stock may be forfeited and sold for the payment thereof, with interest and expenses, under such regulations as the by-laws may prescribe, or the corporation may, by suit, recover the same from the holder of the stock at the time of the assessment thereof, or at any subsequent time. SEC. 6. That this act may be amended or repealed at any time, and shall take effect from the date of its approval. Approved, June 15, 1878. Shares of stock. Form. Payment. Repeal. June 15, 1878. Persons not reg. CHAP. 215.-An act to regulate the practice of pharmacy in the District of Columbia. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assemb ed, That from and after the pas sage of this act, it shall be unlawful for any person, not a registered istered pharmapharmacist within the meaning of this act, to conduct any pharmacy cists not to conduct or store for the purpose of retailing, compounding, or dispensing medi. pharmacies. cines or poisons, for medical use, in the District of Columbia, except as hereinafter provided. SEC. 2. That it shall be unlawful for the proprietor of any store or Proprietors to alpharmacy to allow any person, except a registered pharmacist, to com- low only registered pound or dispense the prescriptions of physicians, or to retail or dis- pharmacists to pense poisons for medical use, except as an aid to, and under the imme- compound, etc. diate supervision of, a registered pharmacist. Any person violating the provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on conviction thereof, shall be liable to a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than one hundred dollars for each and every such offense. Penalty. Commissioners Term. SEC. 3. That immediately after the passage of this act, and biennially thereafter, or as often as necessary, the Commissioners of the of pharmacy. District of Columbia shall appoint three pharmacists and two physicians, all of whom shall have been residents of the District of Columbia for five years and of at least five years' practical experience in their respective professions, who shall be known and styled as Commissioners of Pharmacy for the District of Columbia, who shall serve without compensation, and who shall hold office for two years, and until their successors are appointed and qualified. Said commissioners shall, within thirty days after the notification of their appointment, each take and subscribe to an oath to impartially and faithfully discharge their duties as prescribed by this act. The position of any commissioner who shall fail to so qualify within the time named shall be vacant, and the vacancy or vacancies so occurring, or any vacancy or vacancies that may occur, shall be filled by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia. Oath Register of phar Who to be regis SEC. 4. That the commissioners of pharmacy shall keep a book of registration open at some convenient place within the city of Washing macists. ton, of which due notice shall be given through the public press, and shall record therein the name and place of business of every person registered under this act. It shall be the duty of said commissioners of pharmacy to register, without examination, as registered pharmacists, tered without exall pharmacists and druggists who are engaged in business in the Dis. amination. trict of Columbia at the passage of this act as owners or principals of stores of pharmacies for selling at retail, compounding, or dispensing drugs, medicines, or chemicals for medicinal use, or for compounding Proviso. Examinations. Registry. Age and service of applicant. Graduates in pharmacy. Registry fees. and dispensing physicians' prescriptions, and all assistant pharmacists, twenty-one years of age, engaged in said stores or pharmacies in the District of Columbia at the passage of this act, and who have been engaged as such in some store or pharmacy where physicians, prescriptions were compounded and dispensed for not less than five years prior to the passage of this act: Provided, however, That in case of failure or neglect on the part of any such person or persons to present themselves for registration within sixty days after said public notice, they shall undergo an examination such as is provided for in section five of this act. SEC. 5. That the said commissioners of pharmacy shall, upon applica tion and at such time and place as they may determine, examine each and every person who shall desire to conduct the business of selling at retail, compounding, or dispensing drugs, medicines, or chemicals for medicinal use, or compounding and dispensing physicians' prescriptions within the District of Columbia as pharmacists; and if a majority of said commissioners shall be satisfied that said person is competent and fully qualified to conduct said business of compounding or dispensing drugs, medicines, or chemicals for medicinal use, or to compound and dispense physicians' prescriptions, they shall enter the name of such person as a registered pharmacist in the book provided for in section four of this act. SEC. 6. That no person shall be entitled to an examination by said commissioners of pharmacy for registration as pharmacist unless he present satisfactory evidence of being twenty-one years of age, and having served not less than four years in a store or pharmacy where physicians' prescriptions were compounded and dispensed, or is a graduate of some respectable medical college or university. SEC. 7. That all graduates in pharmacy having a diploma from an incorporated college or school of pharmacy that requires a practical experience in pharmacy of not less than four years before granting a diploma shall be entitled to have their names registered as pharmacists by said commissioners of pharmacy. SEC. 8. That the commissioners of pharmacy shall be entitled to demand and receive from each person whom they register as pharmacists, without examination, the sum of three dollars, and from each person Re-examination. whom they examine the sum of ten dollars. And in case the examination of said person should prove defective and unsatisfactory, and his name not be registered, he shall be permitted to present himself for re examination within any period not exceeding twelve months next Application of thereafter, and no charge shall be made for such re-examination. The money received under the provisions of this section shall be applied to payment of such expenses as the commissioners may incur in executing the provisions of this act. fees. Responsibility of pharmacists. Adulteration. Penalty. Precautions in SEC. 9. Every registered pharmacist shall be held responsible for the quality of all drugs, chemicals, and medicines he may sell or dispense, with the exception of those sold in the original packages of the manu. facturer, and also those known as "patent medicines"; and should he knowingly, intentionally, and fraudulently adulterate, or cause to be adulterated, such drugs, chemicals, or medical preparations, he shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, be liable to a penalty not exceeding one hundred dollars, and, in addition thereto, his name shall be stricken from the register. SEC. 10. It shall be unlawful for any person, from and after the passage selling certain of this act, to retail any poisons enumerated in Schedules A and B, as poisons. follows, to wit: SCHEDULE A. Arsenic and its preparations, corrosive sublimate, white precipitate, red precipitate, biniodide of mercury, cyanide of potassium, bydrocyanic acid, strychnia and all other poisonous vegetable alkaloids, and their salts, essential oil of bitter almonds, opium and its preparations, except paragoric and other preparations of opium containing less than two grains to the ounce; SCHEDULE B. Aconite, belladonna, colchicum, conium, nux vomica, henbane, savin, ergot, cotton-root, cantharides, creosote, digitalis, and their pharmaceu tical preparations, croton-oil, chloroform, chloral hydrate, sulphate of zinc, mineral acids, carbolic acid, and oxalic acid, without distinctly labeling the box, vessel, or paper in which the said poison is contained, and also the outside wrapper or cover, with the name of the article, the word "poison", and the name and place of business of the seller. Nor shall it be lawful for any person to sell or deliver any poisons enumerated in Schedules A and B, unless, upon due inquiry, it be found that the purchaser is aware of its poisonous character, and represents that it is to be used for a legitimate purpose. Nor shall it be lawful for any registered pharmacist to sell any poisons included in Schedule A without, before delivering the same to the purchaser, causing au entry to be made, in a book kept for that purpose, stating the date of sale, the name and address of the purchaser, the name and quality of the poison sold, the purpose for which it is represented by the purchaser to be required, and the name of the dispenser; such book to be always open for inspection by the proper authorities, and to be preserved for reference for at least five years. The provisions of this section shall not apply to the dispensing of poisons, in not unusual quantities or doses, upon the prescriptions of practitioners of medicine. Nor shall it be lawful for any Selling alcoholio licensed or registered druggist or pharmacist in the District of Colum- liquors as beverbia to retail, or sell, or give away any alcoholic liquors or compounds, ages. as a beverage, to be drunk or consumed upon the premises. And any violation of the provisions of this section shall make the owner or principal of said store or pharmacy liable to a fine of not less than twentyfive and not more than one hundred dollars, to be collected in the usual manner. Penalty. Itinerant vend SEC. 11. Any itinerant vender of any drug, nostrum, ointment, or appliance of any kind, intended for the treatment of diseases or injury, ors. or who shall, by writing, or printing, or any other method, publicly profess to care or treat diseases, injury, or deformity, by any drug, nostrum, manipulation, or other expedient, shall pay a license of two hundred dollars per annum into the treasury of the District of Columbia, to be collected in the usual way. License. False representations. SEC. 12. That any person who shall procure or attempt to procure registration for himself or for another under this act, by making or causing to be made any false representation, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall, upon conviction thereof, be liable to a penalty Penalty. of not less than twenty-five nor more than one hundred dollars, and the name of the person so fraudulently registered shall be stricken from the register. Any person, not a registered pharmacist as provided for in this act, who shall conduct a store, pharmacy, or place for retailing, pharmacy without compounding, or dispensing drugs, medicines, or chemicals, for medic- registry. inal use, or for compounding or dispensing physicians' prescriptions, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, Penalty. shall be liable to a penalty of not less than fifty dollars. SEC. 13. That all fines and penalties under this act shall be collected Conducting Collection of in the same manner that other fines and penalties are collected in the fines, etc. of this act. SEC. 14. That all acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act be, Repeals. and the same are hereby, repealed. Approved, June 15, 1878. June 15, 1878. Barataria ShipCanal Company. Right of way, etc. Proviso. Proviso. Rates of toll. Proviso. Proviso. June 17, 1878. CHAP. 216.-An act to authorize the Barataria Ship Canal Company to construct and operate a ship canal from New Orleans to the Gulf of Mexico, through the lands and waters of the United States, and to grant to said company the right of way for that purpose. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Barataria Ship Canal Company, a body corporate of the State of Louisiana, created by an act of the legislature of said State, approved April twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, be, and the same is hereby, granted the right of way through the lands and waters of the United States, to enable said company to construct and operate a ship canal from a point at or near the city of New Orleans to the Gulf of Mexico, through the Barataria Bay, in the State of Louisiana, with power and authority to construct and maintain all necessary harbors, locks, dams, dikes, levees, and piers: Provided, The same shall in no manner interfere with or affect the usual and ordinary navigation of said waters where they are not confined either by piers or canal-banks constructed by said company, and necessary for the use and operation of said canal: And provided further, That Bayou Villars shall not be closed by said canal company. SEC. 2. That in the transportation of military or naval stores, troops, or munitions of war of the United States, such rates of toll only shall be charged as may be prescribed by the Secretary of War; and that the tolls or tonnage charges of said company shall not exceed one dollar per ton on the tonnage measurement of any vessel for the round trip through said canal, or half said sum for less than the round trip; and not exceeding twenty-five cents for each passenger through said canal either way: Provided, That vessels of five tons burden and less shall be exempt from tolls for the use of said canal when they do not pass through the locks: And provided further, That no tolls shall be charged on any boats or vessels navigating any of the waters on the line of said canal, which could have been navigated by such vessels had such canal not been built Approved, June 15, 1878. CHAP. 259. An act making appropriations for the service of the Post-Office Department for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Appropriations. States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, and Postal service. the same are hereby, appropriated for the service of the Post-Office Department for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, out of any money in the Treasury arising from the revenues of said department, in conformity to the act of July second, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, as follows: Mail depredations. agents. R. S. 4017, p. 780. OFFICE OF THE POSTMASTER-GENERAL.-For mail depredatious and special agents, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars; and not exceeding seven thousand five hundred dollars of this amount may be expended for fees to United States attorneys, marshals, clerks of courts, and counsel necessarily employed by special agents of the Post-Office DepartPay of special ment, subject to approval by the Attorney-General: Provided, That hereafter the per diem pay of all special agents appointed under section forty hundred and seventeen, Revised Statutes, shall only be allowed for their actual and necessary expenses not exceeding five dollars per diem when they are actually engaged in traveling on the business of the department Salaries of ten except such, not exceeding ten in number, as are appointed by the Postagents and nine as- master-General to duty at such important points as he may designate, sistant superintendents of railway and nine assistant superintendents of railway mail service, who may be detailed to act as superintendents of division of railway mail service who shall each receive a salary of two thousand five hundred dollars, per annum and no more: And provided further, That twenty thousand dollars of this appropriation, or so much thereof as shall be necessary, may be used in paying rewards for apprehension of mail robbers. service. 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