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valid in any other village than the one for which it is granted, and shall cease 

 and determine when the population of the village for which such permit was 

 granted shall hecome greater than two hundred: And Proridcd /.vo, That this 

 act shall not apply to dealers in general merchandise in the city or rural dis- 

 trict where there is no person licensed as a pharmacist or assistant pharmacist. 

 That all such drugs and remedies authorized to he sold by general merchandise 

 stores shall be sold in original packages, properly labeled over the name of a 

 registered pharmacist of this or some other State. Within the meaning of this 

 act, rural districts are places of not more than one hundred inhabitants. 



Session Laws 1905, p. 319. 



SALE OF POISONS. 



13. Restriction*; liibclx; record; c.rcinptions. It shall be unlawful for any 

 person to sell or deliver to any minor under sixteen years of age, except upon 

 the written order of an adult, or to sell to or to deliver to any person any of 

 the following described substances, or any poisonous compounds or prepara- 

 tions thereof, to wit : Arsenic, corrosive sublimate, hydro-cyanic acid, opium, 

 morphine, strychnine, cocaine, or aconites except in the manner following: It 

 shall first be learned, by due inquiry, that the person to whom delivery is 

 made is aware of the poisonous character of the substance, and that it is 

 desired for a lawful purpose, and the box, bottle or other package shall be 

 plainly labeled with the name of the substance, the word " poison ", the name of 

 the person or firm dispensing the substance, and before a delivery shall be 

 made of any of the foregoing substances there shall be recorded in a book 

 kept for that purpose the name of the article, the quantity delivered, the pur- 

 pose for which it is alleged to be used, the date of delivery, the name and 

 address of the purchaser and the name of the dispenser, which book shall be 

 preserved for at least one year and shall at all times be open to inspection by 

 the proper ollicers of the law: Provided, Jnnrcrcr, That the foregoing provision 

 shall not apply to articles dispensed upon the order of persons believed by the 

 dispenser to be lawfully authorized practitioners of medicine or dentistry: 

 And, Provided, also, That the record of sale and delivery above mentioned 

 shall not be required of manufacturers and wholesalers who shall sell any of 

 the foregoing substances at wholesale; but the box, bottle or other package con- 

 taining such substance when sold at wholesale shall be properly labeled with 

 the name of the substance, the word " poison " and the name and address of 

 the manufacturer or wholesaler. 



Session Laws 1905, p. 324. 



16. Penalties. Whoever, not being licensed as a pharmacist, shall conduct or 

 manage any drug store, pharmacy or other place of business for the compound- 

 ing, dispensing, or sale at retail of any drugs, medicines or poisons, or for the 

 compounding of physicians' prescriptions, contrary to the provisions of section 

 1 of this act, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction 

 thereof, shall be fined not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than one hun- 

 dred dollars ; and each week such drug store of pharmacy or other place Of 

 business is so unlawfully conducted shall be held to constitute a separate and 

 distinct offense. 



Whoever, not being licensed as a pharmacist or assistant pharmacist, shall 

 compound, dispense or sell at retail, any drug, medicine, poison, or pharma- 

 ceutical preparation, either upon a physician's prescription or otherwise, and 



a So in Laws. 



