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of the territory, of all moneys received and expended by said board during 

 each year, and he shall also report upon the general condition of pharmacy 

 throughout the territory. (Laws 1888-9, p. 118 et seq.) 



Compiled Laws, 1897, p. 916. 



SALE OF POISONS. 



1259. Labels; penalty. Every apothecary, druggist, or other person, who 

 shall sell and deliver any arsenic, corrosive sublimate, prussic acid, or any other 

 violent poison, without having the word poison, and the true name written 

 thereof, written or printed in Spanish and English, upon a label put on the 

 phial, box, or package that contains the same, shall be punished by a fine not 

 exceeding one hundred dollars. (Laivs, 1853-Jf, p. 136.) 



1260. Records; schedules. That hereafter it shall be unlawful for any per- 

 son, not a registered pharmacist, to sell or dispense any poisons enumerated in 

 schedules A and B, except as provided by section fourteen of the New Mexico 

 pharmacy law, approved February 15, 1889. 



SCHEDULE A. 



Arsenic, mercury, strychnia, and their preparations and salts, acetate of lead, 

 tartar emetic, cyanide of potassium, hydrocyanic acid, and all other poisonous 

 vegetable alkaloids and their salts, essential oil of bitter almonds, opium and 

 its preparations, except paregoric and such other preparations of opium con- 

 taining less than two grains to the ounce. 



SCHEDULE B. 



Aconite, belladonna, coca, colchicum, conium, nux vomica, henbane, savin, 

 ergot, cotton root, cantharides, creosote, digitalis, and their pharmaceutical 

 preparations and alkaloids, croton oil, chloroform, chloral hydrate, sulphate of 

 zinc, mineral acids, carbolic acid, and oxalic acid, without distinctly labeling 

 the box, vessel or paper in which the said poison is contained, with the name of 

 the article, the word poison, and the name and place of business of the seller; 

 nor shall it be lawful for any person to sell or deliver any poison enumerated 

 in schedules A and B unless, upon due inquiry, it be found that the purchaser 

 is aware of its poisonous character, and represents that it is to be used for a 

 legitimate purpose ; nor shall it be lawful for any registered pharmacist to sell 

 or dispense any poisons enumerated in schedules A and B without, before deliv- 

 ering the same to the purchaser, causing an entry to be made in a book kept for 

 that purpose, stating the date of sale, the name and address of the purchaser, 

 the name of the poison sold, the purpose for which it is represented by the pur- 

 chaser to be required, and the name of the dispenser; such book to be always 

 open for inspection by the proper authorities, and to be preserved for at least 

 four years. The provisions of this section shall not apply to the dispensing of 

 poisons, in not unusual quantities or doses, upon the prescriptions of practi- 

 tioners of medicine: Provided, Nothing in this act shall be so construed as to 

 prevent the sale of such poisonous articles as are directly used in mining or for 

 the reduction or concentration of ores. 



1261. Penalty. Any person violating the provisions of this act shall be 

 deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be fined in a sum 

 not exceeding one hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail for not 

 more than six months, or both in the discretion of the court. Laws 1897, p. 

 138-139. 



Compiled Laws, 1897, p. 374-377. 



