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Title 21 — Food and Drugs

Chapter 7 — Practice of Pharmacy and Sale of Poisons in Consular Districts in China

§ 203. Application for license; requirements; qualifications for license

Statutory text

Every person whose permanent allegiance is due to the United States desiring to practice as a pharmacist in the consular districts in China shall file with the consul an application, duly verified under oath, setting forth the name and age of the applicant, the place or places at which he pursued and the time spent in the study of pharmacy, the experience which the applicant has had in compounding physicians’ prescriptions under the direction of a licensed pharmacist, and the name and location of the school or college of pharmacy, if any, of which he is a graduate, and shall submit evidence sufficient to show to the satisfaction of said consul that he is of good moral character and not addicted to the use of alcoholic liquors or narcotic drugs so as to render him unfit to practice pharmacy. Applicants shall be not less than twenty-one years of age and shall have had at least four years’ experience in the practice of pharmacy or shall have served three years under the instruction of a regularly licensed pharmacist, and any applicant who has been graduated from a school or college of pharmacy recognized by the proper board of his State, Territory, District of Columbia, or other possession of the United States as in good standing shall be entitled to practice upon presentation of his diploma.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

  1. Pub. L. 63–74 § 2 · 38 Stat. 371

    Enacted · 21 U.S.C. § 203

    (Mar. 3, 1915, ch. 74, § 2, 38 Stat. 818.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Mar. 3, 1915, ch. 74, § 2, 38 Stat. 818.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 2. That all official and public books, papers, plats, records, and property of every description found and remaining in the said land office ten days from and after the approval of this Act shall be delivered to the register of the said office, who shall become the custodian of the same, under the direction of the Commissioner of the General Land Office.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Editorial Notes

Codification

The words “now practicing as a pharmacist or,” which preceded “desiring to practice” in the original text of this section, were omitted as obsolete.

Credits

(Mar. 3, 1915, ch. 74, § 2, 38 Stat. 818.)

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