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keep a record of the name and quantity of the article sold and of the name and 

 residence of the person or persons to whom it was delivered, which shall be made 

 before the article is delivered and shall at all times be open to inspection by the 

 officers of the district police and by the police authorities and officers of cities 

 and towns ; but no sale of cocaine or its salts shall be made except upon the 

 prescription of a physician. 



Whoever neglects to affix such label to such bottle, box or wrapper before 

 delivery thereof to the purchaser or whoever neglects to keep or refuses to 

 show to said officers such records or whoever purchases any of said poisons and 

 gives a false or fictitious name to the vendor shall be punished by a fine of not 

 more than fifty dollars. The provisions of this section shall not apply to sales 

 by wholesale dealers or manufacturing chemists to retail dealers, or to a 

 general merchant who sells Paris green, London purple or other arsenical 

 poisons in unbroken packages containing not less than one-quarter of a pound, 

 for the sole purpose of destroying potato bugs or other insects upon plants, 

 vines or trees, except that he shall record each sale and label each package 

 sold, as above provided. 



Revised Laws, 1902, vol. 2, p. 1802. 



1. Wood alcohol must be labeled as a poison. Whoever, himself or by his serv- 

 ant or agent, or as the servant or agent of any other person, sells, exchanges or 

 delivers any wood alcohol, otherwise known as methyl alcohol, shall affix to the 

 vessel containing the same and shall deliver therewith a label bearing the words 

 " Wood Alcohol, Poison ", in black letters of uncondensed Gothic type not less 

 than one fourth of an inch in height. Whoever violates the provisions of this 

 section shajl pay a fine of not less than fifty dollars nor more than two hundred 

 dollars. 



2. Wood alcohol prohibited in drugs for internal use. Whoever, himself or by 

 his servant or agent, or as the servant or agent of any other person, sells, 

 exchanges or delivers, or has in his possession with intent to sell, exchange or 

 deliver, any article of food or drink, or any drug intended for internal use, 

 containing any wood alcohol, otherwise known as methyl alcohol, shall be pun- 

 ished by a fine of not less than two hundred dollars or by imprisonment for not 

 more than thirty days, or by both such fine and imprisonment. 



Acts 1905, p. 149. 



PATENT MEDICINES AND COCAINE. 



1. Per cent of alcohol when excessive must be specified. Upon every pack- 

 age, bottle or other receptacle holding any proprietary or patent medicine, or 

 any proprietary or patent food preparation, which contains alcohol to an 

 amount in excess of the amount shown to be necessary by the United States 

 Pharmacopoeia or the National Formulary as a solvent or preservative of the 

 active constituents of the drugs contained therein, shall be marked or inscribed 

 a statement of the percentage of alcohol by volume contained therein ; and the 

 provisions of section nineteen of chapter seventy-five of the Revised Laws shall 

 apply to the manner and form in which such statements shall be marked or 

 inscribed. 



2. Labeling of proprietaries containing habit-forming drugs. Every package, 

 bottle or other receptacle holding any proprietary or patent medicine or any 

 proprietary or patent food preparation shall bear a label containing a state- 

 ment of the quantity of any opium, morphine, heroin or chloral-hydrate con- 

 tained therein, provided that the package contains more than two grains of 



