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quantity of the article sold, and the time when and the name of the person to 

 whom such sale is made, which record shall he open to all persons who may wish 

 to examine the same. 



14. Penalty. Any person who shall violate the provisions of the preceding 

 section shall be fined not exceeding one hundred dollars. 



15. Physicians' prescriptions excepted. The two preceding sections shall 

 not apply to physicians, in their prescriptions or recipes to their patients. 

 Laws 1848, ch. 736, as amended, Laws 1850, p. 966. 



Public Statutes and Session Laws, 1901, p. 814 et seq. 

 ADULTERATION OF DRUGS. 



4. State board of health to investigate quality of drugs. The state board of 

 health shall take cognizance of the interests of the public health, relating to the 

 sale of drugs and foods and the adulteration of the same, and shall make all 

 necessary investigations and inquiries in reference thereto, and for these pur- 

 poses may appoint inspectors, analysts, and chemists, who shall be subject to its 

 supervision and removal ; and said board may expend annually an amount not 

 exceeding eight hundred dollars for the purpose of carrying out the provisions 

 of this section and of the chapter relating to the adulteration and the sale of 

 unwholesome foods and of poisons. (Laivs, 1891, p. 334-) 



Public Statutes and Session Laws, 1901, p. 334. ' 



1. Sale prohibited. No person shall sell, or offer for sale, any adulterated 

 drug or substance to be used in the manner of medicine, or any adulterated 

 article of food or substance to be used in the manner of food or drink. 



2. "Adiillenilion"' defined. Tf any drug or substance used for medicine, sold 

 under a name recognized by the United States Pharmacopoeia, or in some other 

 Pharmacopoeia, or other standard work of materia medica, differs materially 

 from the standard of strength, quality, or purity laid down in such work, or 

 contains less of the active principle than is contained in the genuine article, 

 weight for weight, or falls below the professed standard under which it is 

 sold,, it shall be deemed to be adulterated within the meaning of this chapter. 



4. Penalty. Whoever fraudulently adulterates for the purpose of sale any 

 article of food or drink, drug or medicine, or knowingly sells any fraudulently 

 adulterated article of food or drink, drug or medicine, or any kind of diseased 

 or unwholesome provisions as defined in this chapter, shall be imprisoned not 

 exceeding one year, or be fined not exceeding four hundred dollars. 



5. Samples must be furnished for analysis. Every person offering or exposing 

 for sale any drug or article of food within the meaning of this chapter, shall fur- 

 nish to any analyst, or other officer duly appointed for the purpose, who shall 

 apply to him for the same and tender him its value in money, a sample sufficient 

 for the purpose of the analysis of such drug or article of food. 



7. Penult }f for lihuleriiiji iiix/icctor. Whoever hinders, obstructs, or in any 

 way interferes with any inspector, analyst, or other officer appointed hereunder, 

 in the performance of his duty., shall be fined not exceeding fifty dollars for the 

 first offense and one hundred dollars for each subsequent offense. 



8. Portion of sample to be reserved. Before commencing the analysis of a 

 sample, the analyst shall reserve a portion, which shall be sealed; and in case 

 of a complaint or indictment, part of the reserved portion of the sample alleged 

 to be adulterated shall, upon application, be delivered to the defendant or his 

 attorney, and part to the secretary of the state board of health. 



