Every registered pharmacist engaged in the active practice of his profession shall annually, during the time he continues in such active practice, pay to the State Board of Pharmacy a renewal fee, to be fixed by said board, but which shall in no case exceed $1.50 if paid between the first day of January and the first day of March of each year, nor $3.00 if paid between the first day of March and the first day of April of each year, nor $5.00 if paid between the first day of April and the first day of May of each year. The payment of such renewal fee shall entitle him to a renewal of his certificate.

Every assistant pharmacist engaged in the active practice of his profession shall annually, during the time he continues in such active. practice, pay to the State Board of Pharmacy a renewal fee, to be fixed by said board, but which shall in no case exceed $1.00 if paid between the first day of January and the first day of March of each year, nor $2.00 if paid between the first day of March and the first day of April of each year, nor $4.00 if paid between the first day of April and the first day of May of each year. The payment of such renewal fee shall entitle him to a renewal of his certificate. If the renewal fee for any certificate the holder of which is actively engaged in the practice of his profession be not paid by the first day of May of each year, such certificate is hereby declared null and void and the holder thereof may be reinstated as a registered pharmacist or assistant pharmacist only by passing a successful examination before the State Board of Pharmacy: Provided, that actual retirement from the profession of any registered pharmacist or assistant pharmacist for a period not exceeding five years, shall not deprive him of the right to renew his registration upon the payment of all lapsed fees.

The Board of Pharmacy may refuse registration, or renewal of certificates to, or may suspend the certificates of registered pharmacists, or assistant pharmacists, who are proven to be so addicted to the excessive use of stimulants or narcotics as to render them unsafe to handle or sell drugs, medicines and poisons, or who are proven not to be of good moral character.

If the holder of every certificate of pharmacy granted under the provisions of this Act shall refuse or neglect to conspicuously display the same in the drug store, pharmacy or department to which it applies, or if the registered pharmacist who conducts the drug store, pharmacy or department shall neglect or refuse to conspicuously display his name over the door or department, he shall be liable on conviction thereof to pay a penalty of not less than twenty dollars nor more than fifty dollars.

§ 14. No druggist or other person shall manufacture, compound, sell or offer for sale or cause to be manufactured, compounded, sold or offered for sale any medicine or preparation under or by a name recognized in the United States Pharmacopoeia or National Formulary for internal or external use, which differs from the standard of strength, quality or purity, as determined by the test laid down in the United States Pharmacopoeia or National Formulary official at the time of such manufacture, compounding, sale or offering for sale. Nor

shall any druggist or other person manufacture, compound, sell or offer for sale or cause to be manufactured, compounded, sold or offered for sale, any drug, medicine, chemical or pharmaceutical preparation, the strength or purity of which shall fall below the professed standard of strength or purity under which it is sold. Nor shall any druggist or other person being requested by means of a prescription, or in any manner, to sell, furnish or compound any drug, medicine, chemical or pharmaceutical preparation, substitute or cause to be substituted therefor, without notification to the purchaser, any other drug, medicine, chemical or pharmaceutical preparation. Any person violating any provision of this section upon conviction shall be liable to all the costs of the action and all the expenses incurred by the State Board of Pharmacy in connection therewith, and for the first offense shall be fined not less than ten dollars nor more than one hundred dollars, and for each subsequent offense shall be fined not less than seventy-five dollars nor more than one hundred and fifty dollars. The State Board of Pharmacy is hereby empowered to employ an analyst or chemist expert, whose duty it shall be to examine into any claimed adulteration, substitution or alteration, or other violation hereof, and report upon the result of his investigation, and, if such report justify such action, the board shall cause the offender to be prosecuted.

AN ACT relating to nurses and providing for their registration.

[SECTION 1.] Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: SECTION 1. A board to consist of five (5) graduate nurses, and to be known as the State Board of Examiners of Registered Nurses, is hereby created, whose duty it shall be to carry out the purposes and enforce the provisions of this Act. The members of the board shall be appointed by the Governor. At the time of their appointment they must be actual residents of the State. They shall be selected from nurses engaged in active work, who shall have been graduated for at least a period of five years from a reputable training school and who, during their course of training, shall have served for two (2) years in a general hospital, and who (except those appointed as the first members of the board) shall have been registered

under the provisions of this Act. Three (3) members of the board shall be selected from nurses who have had at least two (2) years' experience in educational work among nurses. The members of the board shall be appointed to hold office as follows: One (1) for one (1) year; two (2) for two (2) years; and two (2) for three (3) years from July 1, 1907. Upon the expiration of the term of office of a member, the Governor shall appoint a successor whose term of office shall be three (3) years, and shall fill each vacancy for the unexpired term. Each member of the board shall hold office until a successor is duly appointed.

The members of the board shall, as soon as organized, and annually thereafter, elect from their number a president and a secretary who shall also be the treasurer. The treasurer, before entering upon the duties of the office, shall file with the Secretary of State a bond payable to the People of the State of Illinois in a sum to be fixed from time to time, and with sureties to be approved by the Governor, conditioned for the faithful discharge if the duties of the office. The board shall adopt rules not inconsistent with this Act to govern its proceedings. It shall adopt a seal and the secretary shall have the care and custody thereof. The secretary shall keep a record of all proceedings of the board, including a register of the names and addresses of all nurses duly registered under this Act, which shall be open at all reasonable times to public scrutiny. The board shall cause the prosecution of all persons violating any of the provisions of this Act and may incur necessary expenses in that behalf. The secretary of the board shall receive a salary which shall be fixed by the board. Each member of the board shall receive a compensation of ten dollars ($10.00) for each day or fraction of a day in which such member is actually engaged in attendance upon the meetings of the board and in going to and coming from the place of meeting and all legitimate and necessary expenses incurred in attending such meetings. All expenses of the board, including such salary and compensation, shall be paid from fees received by the board and no part of the same shall be paid out of the State treasury. All moneys received in excess of the expenditures of the board shall be held by the treasurer as a special fund for meeting the expenses of the board and the cost of the annual reports of its proceedings. Such report shall be made to the Governor by December 15th in each year and shall contain a true account of all moneys received and disbursed by the board.

§ 3. Three (3) members of the board shall constitute a quorum. Special meetings of the board shall be called by the secretary upon written request of any two (2) members. The board shall from time to time adopt rules for the examination of applicants for registration in accordance with the provisions of this Act and shall from time to time adopt rules by which to establish a uniform and reasonable standard of instruction and training to be observed by training schools, and shall determine the reputability of such schools by reference to their compliance with such rules and in like manner may from time to time amend, modify and repeal such rules. The board shall, immediately upon the election of an officer, file with the Secretary of State a certi

ficate thereof, giving the name and address of such officer and immediately upon the adoption of any rule shall file with the Secretary of State a certificate thereof setting out therein a copy of such rule, or in case of the repeal of a rule setting out fully such fact, and shall immediately publish such certificate in at least one journal devoted to the interests of professional nursing and mail a copy of such certificate to every applicant at the address appearing upon the records of the board and to every reputable training school in Illinois.

§ 4. It shall be the duty of the board to meet for the purpose of holding examinations not less frequently than twice a year. Notice of such meetings shall be given to the public press and to at least one journal devoted to the interest of professional nursing and by mail to every applicant and every reputable training school in Illinois at least thirty days prior to the meeting. At such meetings it shall be the duty of the board to examine all such applicants for registration under this Act as are required to be examined, and issue to each duly qualified applicant who shall have complied with the pertinent provisions of this Act the certificate provided for in this Act. Any person to whom a certificate of registration shall be issued shall within ninety (90) days thereafter cause the same to be recorded with the county clerk of the county in which such person resided at the time of application. Such person shall be prepared whenever requested to exhibit such certificate of registration or a certified copy thereof. The county clerk shall charge twenty-five cents for recording such certificate and for each certified copy thereof.

§ 5. Every applicant for registration shall be at least twenty-three (23) years old, of good moral character, and shall possess such further qualifications as may be prescribed from time to time by the board by rule: Provided, that no such rule shall be inconsistent with the provisions of this Act relating to those who shall make application prior to July 1, 1910. Every applicant shall make such proof of the necessary qualifications as shall satisfy the board thereof. Every application shall be made in writing in the true name of the applicant, in such form as may from time to time be prescribed by the board, and shall state the place of residence of and be signed by the applicant. The fee for acting on an application shall be ten dollars ($10) and shall accompany the application, but every subsequent application of the same person shall be acted on without fee.

§ 6. Upon compliance with the pertinent provisions of this Act, nurses otherwise qualified shall be entitled to registration, as follows: First. Without examination, provided they make application prior to July 1, 1910; (a) nurses who shall have graduated before said date and after January 1, 1897, from a reputable training school, connected with a general or special hospital, who at the time of graduation shall have received a course of at least two (2) years' training in such training school; (b) nurses who shall have graduated on or prior to January 1, 1897, from a reputable training school connected with a general hospital, who at the time of graduation shall have received a

course of one (1) year's training in such training school and who at the time of application shall have been engaged in nursing for five (5) years since their graduation; (c) nurses now in training in a reputable training school, connected with a general hospital, which now gives a course of at least two (2) years' training and who shall graduate therefrom.

Second. Nurses who at the time of application shall have been engaged in the actual practice of nursing for three (3) years, provided they pass an examination in practical nursing and provided they make application prior to July 1, 1910.

Third. Nurses who shall make application on or after July 1, 1910, and who at the time of application shall have graduated from a reputable training school, connected with a general hospital, requiring a systematic course of at least three years' training.

Fourth. Nurses who shall make application on or after July 1, 1910, and who at the time of application shall have graduated from a reputable training school, connected with a special hospital, requiring a systematic course of at least two years' training and who at the time of application shall have obtained in a reputable general hospital one (1) year's additional training in subjects not adequately taught in the training school from which they graduated, and shall pass an examination to determine their fitness and ability to give efficient care to the sick.

§ 7. It shall be unlawful hereafter for any person to practice or attempt to practice in this State as a registered nurse without a certificate from the board. Any person who has received such a certificate shall be styled and known as a registered nurse and shall be entitled to append the letters R. N. to the name of such person. No other person shall assume or use such title or the abbreviation R. N. or any other words, letters or figures to indicate that such person is a registered nurse.

§ 8. This Act shall not be construed to affect or apply to the gratuitous nursing of the sick by friends or members of the family, nor to any person nursing the sick for hire who does not in any way assume or pretend to be a registered nurse, and this Act shall not be construed to interfere in any way with members of religious communities or orders which have charge of hospitals or take care of the sick in their own homes, provided such members do not in any way assume to be registered nurses.

The board upon written application and upon the payment of ten dollars ($10.00) as a registration fee may issue a certificate without examination to those who shall have been registered as registered nurses under the law of another state having requirements equivalent to those of Illinois.

§ 10. Any person violating any provision of this Act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall upon conviction be fined for each offense in a sum not less than ten dollars ($10.00) nor more than two hundred dollars ($200.00) for the first offense, and not less than one hundred dollars ($100.00) nor more than five hundred dollars ($500.00) for each subsequent offense. Any person who shall wilfully make any