42 DRUG LEGISLATION IN THE UNITED STATES. 



upon the written order of the original prescribe!- ; provided, however, that the 

 provisions of this act shall not apply to sales at wholesale by jobbers, whole- 

 salers, and manufacturers to retail druggists, nor to sales at retail by retail 

 druggists to regular practitioners of medicine, dentistry, or veterinary medicine, 

 nor to sales to hospitals, colleges, or scientific or public institutions. 



2. Penalty. Every person who shall knowingly violate any of the provisions 

 of this act shall be fined not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than fifty 

 dollars. City, police, town, and borough courts, having criminal jurisdiction 

 where established, and justices of the peace in towns where. such courts do not 

 exist shall have jurisdiction to hear and determine prosecutions for violations 

 of the provisions of this act and to impose penalties therefor. (Approved, June 

 7, IDOS.) 



Public Acts, 1005, p. 33G. 



1216. J 7 nJairful exposure of poison. Every person who shall, negligently or 

 maliciously, place any poison, or poisoned food, in any public place, or on 

 premises not exclusively occupied by himself, shall be fined not more than 

 fifty dollars, or imprisoned not more than three mouths, or both. (Laics I860, 

 p. 30.) 



General Statutes, 1902, p. 360. 



ADULTERATION OF DRUGS. 



4732. Penalty. Every person who shall knowingly adulterate, or cause any 

 foreign or inert substance to be mixed with, any drug or medicinal substance 

 or preparation recogni/ed by any pharmacopoeia, or employed in medicinal or 

 medical practice, so as to weaken or destroy its medicinal effect, or shall sell 

 any such drug, compound, or preparation, knowing it to be so adulterated or 

 mixed, shall be fined not less than ten nor more than one hundred dollars, 

 and upon conviction all such adulterated or mixed articles in his possession 

 may be seized upon a warrant issued by the court in which such conviction is 

 had, and destroyed by the officer by whom such seizure shall be made. (Laws 

 1881, p. 73.) 



General Statutes, 1902, p. 1131. 



4731. Commissioner $ of pharmacy to enforec law. Said commissioners may 

 examine into all cases of alleged abuse, fraud, and incompetence; cause the 

 prosecution of all persons not complying with the provisions of this chapter, 

 and suspend and revoke the registration of any person convicted of violating 

 the same. 



General Statutes, 1902, p. 1131. 



