60 DRUG LEGISLATION IN THE UNITED STATES. 



on conviction thereof shall he fined not more than two hundred and fifty dollars 

 or be imprisoned at hard labor not more than two months. Laics, 1903, p. 352 

 et seq. 



Revised Laws, 1905, p. 476-477. 



SALE OF POISONS. 



1051. Conditions of sale. No person shall sell or deliver any deadly poison, 

 or any wooden vessel or container which shall have contained any deadly poison, 

 except for scientific, medicinal or mechanical purposes, nor to any person not 

 known to the vendor to be careful and well disposed ; provided that sales may 

 be made to a person not known to the vendor, if some responsible person known 

 to the vendor will certify in writing that the person desiring to purchase may 

 safely be intrusted with the same, but in all cases the vendor shall require the 

 purchaser to disclose the intended use of such poison, vessel or container, as the 

 case may be. 



1052. Record. Every person who shall sell or deliver any deadly poison, shal/ 

 keep a book in which shall be recorded the name and quantity of the poison sold 

 or delivered, the person to whom it was sold or delivered, and whether such 

 person was known to the vendor, and if not, the name of the responsible person 

 upon whose recommendation the same was sold; and the certificate of such 

 person shall be preserved. The said book of records shall at all times be open 

 to the inspection of the board of health or its agent. 



1053. Record of coulaincrx. The book required to be kept by section 1052 

 shall contain a record of the sale of any vessel or container which shall have 

 contained a deadly poison in like manner as is required with respect to the 

 sale or delivery of the poison itself. 



1054. Label on container}*. The box, phial, or other package in which any 

 deadly poison shall be sold or delivered, shall bear a label containing the word 

 "poison", in large letters, in both the English and Hawaiian languages, 

 together with some emblematic device, to be approved by the board of health, 

 which shall indicate the dangerous character of the article. 



1055. Record of prefer! i>1 ions. Every licensed physician, druggist, or apothe- 

 cary, who shall compound, sell, or deliver any prescription containing any poi- 

 sonous drug, or substance deleterious to human life, to be used as medicine, 

 shall enter upon his books said prescription written out in full, with the date 

 thereof, with his own name appended thereto, or the name of the physician 

 who prescribed the same, and the person to whom the same was delivered ; and 

 no such prescription shall be compounded, sold or delivered, unless the name of 

 the person compounding, selling, or delivering the same, or the name of the 

 physician prescribing the same, be appended to the prescription in full, and 

 every such prescription shall be preserved; and said books and prescriptions 

 shall be subject at all times to the inspection of the board of health or its agent 



1056. Penalty. Any person violating the provisions of this chapter shall for- 

 feit a sum not exceeding one thousand dollars for each offense. Laws 1868, 

 p. 25 (as amended 1872). 



Revised Laws, 1905, p. 4G3-465. 



1399. Sale of opium. The board of health may, upon the conditions to be 

 named in such authorization, authorize any duly qualified physician or surgeon, 

 or any person holding a license to sell poisonous drugs, to sell for medical 

 purposes only, opium and preparations thereof: provided, however, that no 



