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it is of good standard quality and is free from any adulteration prohibited in 

 the Pharmacopoeia of the United States or by the laws relative to the adultera- 

 tion of drugs and food, for either a food or a drug. If it is marked, labelled or 

 represented as being the product of any foreign country, it shall also be of the 

 standard quality required for its legal sale for domestic use in the country of 

 its reputed production. All such liquors which are sold, exchanged or delivered, 

 or which are exposed or kept for sale, exchange or delivery, under a license of 

 the sixth class, shall be of the quality required for their sale as drugs under the 

 provisions of the laws relative to the adulteration of drugs and food." (Laws 

 1896, p. 211.} 



Revised Laws, 1902, vol. 1, p. 840. 



1. Adulteration of liquor with drufjs, penalty. Whoever, for the purpose of 

 sale, adulterates any liquor used or intended for drink with Indian cockle, 

 vitriol, grains of paradise, opium, alum, cochineal, capsicum, copperas, laurel 

 water, logwood, Brazil wood, sugar of lead or any other substance which is 

 poisonous or injurious to health, and whoever knowingly sells any such liquor 

 so adulterated shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for not 

 more than three years, and the articles so adulterated shall be forfeited. (Laws 

 1855, p. 75.}.) 



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

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