OF PHYSICIANS. CHAP. 47. CHAP. 36, VOL. 18. Pharmaceutical Board of Powers of June, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, recommend to the Governor the names of at Duty of the least six graduates of a college of pharmacy of good standing and four graduates of Society. medicine, and it shall be the duty of the Governor on or before the day and year Governor to aforesaid to appoint, in writing, three of the former and two of the latter to constitute appoint State the State Board of Pharmacy. The said board shall have authority to act from and Pharmacy. after the first day of July aforesaid. The members so appointed shall hold their office the State Boa d. for five years ;] [ provided, that the term of office for the first five appointed shall be Term of office, arranged by lot, so that the time of one shall expire on the first day of July of each Chap. 549, vol.18. year, and the vacancies so created, as well as all vacancies occurring, shall with recommendatation aforesaid be filled by appointment by the Governor of a person or persons possessing like qualifications as his or their predecessor in office.] The person or persons so appointed to hold office during the remainder of the term Board to be for which his or their predecessor or predecessors were appointed. Before entering Members of the upon the discharge of their official duties the members of said board shall be duly sworn. sworn or affirmed for the faithful and impartial performance of their duties as such members. Any three members shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of busi- Quorum, ness. The said board shall meet at least once in every three months, and it shall be Time of meeting. its duty to examine into the qualification of all applicants and register them accordingly, keeping correct record of all official transactions, and to report annually to the Gov- Duty of Board. emor prior to the first day of July of each year. SEC. 6. The members of said board shall receive no compensation but may pay the Compensation. expenses incurred by them in the discharge of official duty out of any money coming to The said board before issuing a certificate said board under the provisions of this act. of registration to any pharmacist or assistant shall, if the applicant be entitled to be reg- Fees. SEC. 7. Any person not being a registered pharmacist, or having in his employ one Unregistered meanor, Penalty. demeanor. SEC. 8. Any person who shall violate any of the provisions of this act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof in the Court of General this act a misSessions of the Peace and Jail Delivery shall be fined according to the amount specified after the section violated, for each day whereon such violation occurs or is continued. One-half of the fine imposed to go to the State Board of Pharmacy and the balance to the county in which such violation occurs. SEC. 9. Nothing in this act contained shall be taken to render unlawful the compounding by any physician of prescriptions to be used by him in his own practice. SEC. 10. Penalty. Physician may compound prescriptions. SEC. 11. Provided, also that nothing in this act shall prohibit the sale of standard pro- Sale of standard prietary medicines by general stores. Passed at Dover, April 14, 1887. proprietary medicines by stores not prohibited. Practicing stores shall have persons violat- Age of assistants. Applies to OF PHYSICIANS. CHAP. 47. CHAP. 640, VOL. 19. CHAPTER 640, VOL. 19, LAWS OF DELAWARE. A SUPPLEMENT TO AN ACT ENTITLED 'ACT TO REGULATE THE PRACTICE OF PHARMACY IN THE STATE OF DELAWARE." SECTION 1. That all physicians keeping drug stores and engaged in the active prac tice of medicine outsideof their drug stores shall have at least one qualified assistant with a certificate of examination from said State Board of Pharmacy unless he (the assistant) be a graduate of pharmacy. It shall be the duty of the State Board of Pharmacy to give notice in writing to any person violating the provisions of this section, and after such notice as aforesaid any person continuing to violate the same shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be fined not exceeding the sum of ten dollars ($10) for each day of such violation with costs. SEC. 2. All qualified assistants under the general law must be at least eighteen years of age. SEC. 3. This law shall take effect on and after July 1st, 1893, providing that the Wilmington only provisions of this act shall apply to the city of Wilmington and to no other section of the State. Passed at Dover April 12, 1893. CONCERNING ALMS-HOUSES AND THE POOR. CHAPTER 48. TITLE SEVENTH. OF THE POOR; THE INSANE; DEAF AND DUMB, AND THE BLIND. CHAPTER 48. Concerning alms-houses and the poor. Chap. 374, vol. 15. Any two trustees may dismiss a pau- Overseers to keep a record of pau- To employ the paupers; discipline; Custody of the insane; penalty for al- His salary; other officers; rules. 9. The board may bind certain paupers Mode of binding; effect; recording; 10. Marriage of, or dealing with, paupers, 11. Out-door relief; burial charges. Phy- Contracts in Sussex far out-door sup- 12. Place of a persons legal settlement. 13. Removal of unsettled paupers; indem nity. Order for removal; pauper not to be Liability as between the counties, 14. Liability of relations for pauper's sup port. Order of liability; how enforced. 15. Husband or parent is bound to sup- Proceedings in case of apprehended Any justice may have such husband, 16. Indemnity against unsettled paupers. 17. License for landing immigrants; tax; 18. Trustees to pay constable for his ser SECTION 1. There shall be trustees of the poor for the several Number. counties, to-wit: For New Castle county, [Four] in Wilmington Chap. 56, vol. 15. hundred] (two in Appoquinimink hundred, one of whom shall re- Chap. 317,vol,12, side in the Northern District of the hundred, and the other in the Chap. 412, vol. 14: Southern District thereof) one in each of the other hundreds of said county; for Kent county, two in Dover hundred, two in Murderkill hundred, and one in each of the other hundreds of said county; and for Sussex county, one in each hundred of said county. Each trustee shall hold his office for the term of three years from the date of his appointment; but vacancies shall be filled, only for CONCERNING ALMS-HOUSES AND THE POOR. CHAPTER 48. Term; vacancies the residue of the term, by the commissioners of the levy court of the hundred where the vacancy happens. Residence, Appointment. No person shall be a trustee of the poor in a hundred who is not a resident of such hundred. The trustees now in office shall continue in office for the respective terms for which they were appointed. SEC. 2. The levy court in each county shall appoint the trustees. of the poor for such county, as provided by chapter 8. Each trustee shall be sworn (or affirmed) diligently, faithfully and impartially to Chap. 74, vol. 17. perform the duties of his office. ["The said oath or affirmation may Oath, by whom be administered by the president of said board of trustees or any member thereof duly qualified." administered. Obligations to serve. Re-incorporated. Powers. If any person appointed to be a trustee of the poor shall neglect to take the oath of office and serve, he shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be fined thirty dollars; but the levy court may accept resignations, and no person shall, without his consent, be required to serve two terms in succession. SEC. 3. The trustees of the poor for each county, and their successors, are continued and established a corporation, by the name of "The Trustees of the Poor of--County (inserting the name of the county). The said corporations shall severally have all the franchises and powers incident to a corporation, and shall have capacity to take by devise, bequest, grant, contract, or otherwise, and to hold and transfer property, real and personal, rights and credits, and all the property Chap. 377, vol. 16, and rights belonging to them, respectively, are hereby confirmed; and it is declared that said corporations were created by law on the twenty-ninth of January, in the year 1791, and they shall be regarded as existing from that time. They shall have no banking powers. Duties. Property. SEC. 4. The said corporations shall each have the superintendency of the almshouse, and the charge of the poor in their county, and the regulation of all matters relating to the supporting, employing Chap. 377,vol.16. and keeping said poor, subject to law: ["and all the property of said corporation now held or which may hereafter be held by them, shall be held and applied according to law for the support and accommodation of the poor; and any conveyance, sale, lease, transfer or purchase of such property by said corporations, or mortgage executed thereon by them, or other obligations whatsoever incurred by them for the making, executing and doing of which this act shall be construed to be sufficient authority, and said corporations are hereby authorized and empowered so to do, shall be for the benefit of and in behalf of the support and accommodation of the poor."] Conveyance. To meet quarterly. MEETINGS. SEC. 5. The trustees of the poor for each county shall meet at their almshouse four times each year, to wit: In Kent county, on Chap. 17, vol. 13. the first [Wednesday] of January, April, July and October; in Sussex county, on the first Wednesday, and in New Castle county, on the last Wednesday of the said months. A majority shall be a CONCERNING ALMS-HOUSES AND THE POOR. CHAPTER 48. board to do business; but any number may adjourn. They shall Quorum. keep a record of their transactions. They shall, in April every Records. year, appoint a chairman, a clerk and a treasurer,* the first two of Officers. whom must be trustees of the poor. They may, at any time, remove either of said officers, or fill va- Vacancies. cancies in such offices, or appoint a chairman, or clerk, for the time vol. 11. being in their absence. [The chairman of said trustees of the Chap. 317, vol. 16. poor [or any five of the said trustees] may, at any time, call oc- Chap. 447, sec, 2, casional meetings of the said trustees, who, when so met and assembled, shall have all the rights and powers as are vested in them at their stated quarterly meeting.] SEC. 6. The treasurer before entering on his office, shall give Treasurer to bond, as required by chapter 14. give bond. SEC. 7. The trustees of the poor for each county shall appoint an Overseer. overseer of their alms-house, whom they may remove at pleasure. He shall give security to the corporation by joint and several obligation, with sureties to be approved by the board, in the penal sum of one thousand dollars with this condition: "The condition of the above written obligation is such, that if His bond. the above namedwho is overseer of the alms-house county, shall behave himself well, and shall diligently and faithfully perform the duties incumbent upon him as such overseer, then the said obligation shall be void. in To this obligation shall be subjoined a warrant of attorney to confess judgment thereon. admission of paupers, VOL. II. SEC. 8. The overseer shall not receive any person into the alms- Order for the house, (except as hereinafter provided) without the written order (one trustee) of the poor, one of whom must be a resident of the Chap. 447, sec. 3, same hundred with the pauper. If there be no trustee for that hundred, or if the pauper have no residence in the county, any two trustees may give the order. Any two trustees may dismiss a pauper. The overseer shall keep a list of the paupers in the alms- Dismissal. house; the date of admission; by whose order; and date of discharge. He shall keep an account of the furniture, and of all materials and provisions consumed in the house, and of the produce of the pauper's labor, and of all experses and income of the establishment, to be laid before the board. Accounts. He shall employ the paupers according to their ability, and the Labor of paupers orders of the board; and he may enforce obedience to lawful com- Discipline. mands, and restrain disorderly behavior, according to such orders: but corporal punishment shall not be inflicted. He may, under the Punishment. direction of the trustees, keep any person, committed to his charge in close confinement, if it be unsafe to allow such person to go at liberty. He shall receive and safely keep all insane persons committed to Custody of the *NOTE -The office of Treasurer of the Poor for New Castle County is abolished by Chap. 33, Vol. 19, and for Sussex County, by Chap. 643, Vol. 19, Laws of Delaware. insane. |