FEDERAL LAWS. 19 



ANTITOXIC SERUMS. 



Be it enacted />// tJte Senate and UoHxe of Representatives of the United States 

 of America in Congress assembled, That from and after six months after the 

 'promulgation of the regulations authorized by section four of this Act no person 

 shall sell, barter, or exchange, or offer for sale, barter, or exchange in the Dis- 

 trict of Columbia, or rend, carry, or bring for sale, barter, or exchange from any 

 State, Territory, or the District of Columbia into any State, Territory, or the 

 District of Columbia, or from any foreign country into the United States, or 

 from the United States into any foreign country, any virus, therapeutic serum, 

 toxin, antitoxin, or analogous product applicable to the prevention and cure of 

 diseases cf man, unless (a) such virus, serum, toxin, antitoxin, or product has 

 been propagated and prepared at any establishment holding an unsuspended and 

 unrevoked license, issued by the Secretary of the Treasury as hereinafter au- 

 thorized, to propagate and prepare such virus, serum, toxin, antitoxin, or prod- 

 uct for sale in the District of Columbia, or for sending, bringing, or carrying 

 from place to place aforesaid; nor (b) unless each package of such virus, 

 serum, toxin, antitoxin, or product is plainly marked with the proper name of 

 the article contained therein, the name, address, and license number of the 

 manufacturer, and the date beyond which the contents can not be expected 

 beyond reasonable doubt to yield their specific results : Provided, That the sus- 

 pension or revocation of any license shall not prevent the sale, barter, or ex- 

 change of any virus, serum, toxin, antitoxin, or product aforesaid which has 

 been sold and delivered by the licentiate prior to such suspension or revocation, 

 unless the owner or custodian of such virus, serum, toxin, antitoxin, or product 

 aforesaid has been notified by the Secretary of the Treasury not to sell, barter, 

 or exchange the same. 



2. That no person shall falsely label or mark any package or container of any 

 virus, serum, toxin, antitoxin, or product aforesaid; nor alter any label or 

 mark on any package or conftiiner of any virus, serum, toxin, antitoxin, or 

 product aforesaid so as to falsify such label or mark. 



3. That any officer, agent, or employee of the Treasury Department, duly 

 detailed by the Secretary of the Treasury for that purpose, may during all 

 reasonable hours enter and inspect any establishment for the propagation and 

 preparation of any virus, serum, toxin, antitoxin, or product aforesaid for sale, 

 barter, or exchange in the District of Columbia, or to be sent, carried, or 

 brought from any State, Territory, or the District of Columbia into any otlK-r 

 State or Territory or the District of Columbia, or from the United States into 

 any foreign country, or from any foreign country into the United States. 



4. That the Surgeon-General of the Army, the Surgeon-Gei?eral of the Navy, 

 and the supervising Surgeon-General of the Marine-Hospital Service, be, and 

 they are hereby, constituted a board with authority, subject to the approval 

 of the Secretary of the Treasury, to promulgate from time to time such rules 

 as may be necessary in the judgment of said board to govern the issue, suspen- 

 sion, and revocation of licenses for the maintenance of establishments for the 

 propagation and preparation of viruses, serums, toxins, antitoxins, and analo- 

 gous products, applicable to the prevention and cure of diseases of man, in- 

 tended for sale in the District of Columbia, or to be sent, carried or brought 

 for sale from any State, Territory, or the District of Columbia, into any other 

 State, Territory, or the District of Columbia, or from the United States into 

 any foreign country, or from any foreign country into the United States : 

 Provided, That all licenses issued for the maintenance of establishments for 

 the propagation and preparation in any foreign country of any virus, serum, 

 toxin, antitoxin, or product aforesaid, for sale, barter, or exchange ill the United 



