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they may, with the consent of any such boy, 

 bind him out as on apprentice during his mi- 

 nor,ity, or for a shorter period, to learn such 

 trade mid employment as in their judgment 

 will tend to liis 'future benefit; and the presi- 

 dent of the board shall for such purpose have 

 power to execute and deliver on behalf of said 

 hoard indentures of apprenticeship for any such 

 boy, and sm-h indentures shall have the same 

 force and effect as other indentures of appren- 

 ticeship under the laws of the State, and be 

 filed and kept among the records of the Reform 

 School, and it shall not be necessary to record 

 or file them elsewhere. 



Another act provides that upon the receipt 

 of any money by the State Treasurer from the 

 United States, in payment of the claims of the 

 State, for which State bonds have been issued, 

 it shall be the duty of the State Treasurer to 

 place the amount or amounts so received to 

 the credit of the sinking fund, for the final re- 

 demption of the State bonds so issued, save and 

 except such sum as may be appropriated for the 

 payment of Price raid claims. 



A n act to provide revenue for the fiscal years 

 ending June 30, 1882, and June 30, 1883, de- 

 clares that for the purpose of raising revenue 

 to defray current expenses of the State govern- 

 ment and to pay the interest on bonds of the 

 State, and create a sinking fund for the redemp- 

 tion of bonds, there is hereby levied, and the 

 proper officers shall collect a tax, upon all 

 property in the State subject to taxation, as 

 follows: For current expenses for the fiscal 

 year ending June 30, 1882, four mills, and for 

 the fiscal year ending June 30, 1883, three and 

 a half mills ; for continuance of work on State- 

 House, one half of one mill on the dollar each 

 year ; for the payment of interest, four tenths 

 of one mill on the dollar each year; for the 

 sinking fund, one tenth of one mill on the dollar 

 for each year. 



An act was also passed creating the county 

 of St. John, and defining the boundary thereof ; 

 and defining the boundaries of the counties of 

 Sheridan, Thomas, Gove, Wallace, Lane, and 

 Gray. 



Another act establishes a State road from the 

 penitentiary, in Leavenworth County, to Rose- 

 dale, in Wyandotte County. 



Several bills were introduced, designed to en- 

 force the prohibitory amendment to the Con- 

 stitution. They resulted in the passage of an 

 act to prohibit the manufacture and sale of in- 

 toxicating liquors, except for medical, scien- 

 tific, and mechanical purposes, and to regulate 

 the manufacture and sale thereof for such ex- 

 cepted purposes, the principal provisions of 

 which are as follows: 



SECTION 1. Any person or persons who shall manu- 

 facture, sell, or barter any spirituous, malt, vinous, 

 fermented, or other intoxicating liquors, shall DC guilty 

 pf misdemeanor, and punished as hereinafter provided : 

 Provided, hoicerer, That such liquors may be sold for 

 medical, scientific, and mechanical purposes, as pro- 

 vided in this act. 



SEC. 2. It shall be unlawful for any person or per- 



sons to sell or barter, for medical, scientific, or me- 

 tlwnienl purposes, any inult, vinous, spirituous, fer- 

 mented, or other intoxicating liquors, without first 

 having procured a druggist's permit therefor from 

 the probate judge of the county wherein such druggist 

 may at the time be doing business ; and such probate 

 judge is hereby authorized, in his discretion, to grant 

 a druggist's permit, for the period of one year, to any 

 person of good moral character who is lawfully and 

 in good faith engaged in the business of a druggist 

 in his county, and who, in his judgment, can be in- 

 trusted with the responsibility of selling said liquors 

 for the purposes aforesaid, in the manner hereinafter 

 provided. In order to obtain a druggist's permit un- 

 der this act. the applicant therefor shall present to the 

 probate judge of the county wherein such person is 

 engaged in business, a petition, signed by at least 

 twelve citizens of the township or eity wherein such 

 business is located, certifying that the applicant is a 

 person of good moral character, and lawfully engaged 

 in the business of a druggist. He shall also file with 

 such petition a good and sufficient bond to the State 

 of Kansas. . . . 



SEC. 3. Any physician, who is regularly engaged 

 in the practice of his profession as a business, and 

 who, in cases of actual sickness, shall deem any of the 

 liquors mentioned in the first section of this act nec- 

 essary for the health of his patient, may give such pa- 

 tient a written or printed prescription therefor. But 

 no such prescription shall DC made or given, except in 

 case of actual sickness, and when, in the judgment of 

 such physician, the use of intoxicating liquor is nec- 

 essary as a remedy. Whenever, in the treatment of 

 a minor, it shall be necessary to use intoxicating liq- 

 uor as a remedy, the same shall be procured by his 

 parent, or guardian, or some other person of full age, 

 to whom such physician may deliver a prescription 

 for that purpose. Every physician, before making 

 any prescription for intoxicating liquor, shall make 

 and file with the probate judge of the county wherein 

 he may practice his profession, an affidavit before 

 some officer of the county, authorized to administer 

 oaths, in substance as follows : 



STATE OF KANSAS, COUNTY OF , ss. 



I, A B , do solemnly swear that I am a prac- 

 ticing physician of the State of Kansas, residing in 

 the county of , in said State, and I do further sol- 

 emnly swear that I will not prescribe intoxicating 

 liquors of any kind for any person or persons whom- 

 soever, unless in case of actual sickness, and when 

 the same is necessary for the health of the patient : 

 that I will in all things faithfully keep, observe, and 

 perform all the requirements and conditions of the 

 laws of Kansas regulating the sale and use of intoxi- 

 cating liquors. So help me God. 



(Signed) . 



Sworn to before me. and subscribed in my presence, 

 this day of , A. D. 18 . 



And such affidavit shall be renewed and filed at the 

 expiration of each five years of said physician's prac- 

 tice. . . . 



SEC. 4. Any druggist having a permit to sell intoxi- 

 cating liquors under the provisions of this act may 

 sell for medical purposes only upon the written or 

 printed prescription of a practicing physician, duly 

 signed by such physician, and who has made and 

 filed the affidavit mentioned in the preceding sec- 

 tion ; and for scientific and mechanical purposes only 

 upon a written or printed application, which shall be 

 dated, and shall set forth the name of the applicant, 

 his residence and occupation, the quantity and _kind 

 of liquor required, and the purpose for which it is re- 

 quired, and shall have appended thereto an affidavit 

 by the applicant, made betore some officer authorized 

 to administer oaths in his county, that the statements 

 contained in such application are true ; and all such 

 applications shall be retained by the druggist selling 

 thereon, and at the end of every thirty days, or sooner, 

 shall be by him filed in the probate court out of which 



