172 DRUG LEGISLATION IN THE UNITED STATES. 



1. Inspectors of saleratus, bicarbonate of soda and cream of tartar. The city 

 council of Providence shall, and the town councils of the several towns may, 

 appoint an inspector of saleratus, bicarbonate of soda and cream of tartar, 

 for said city and towns respectively. 



2. Duties of inspectors. Every inspector shall, whenever requested, test any 

 of such articles which shall be presented to him for inspection, and shall give 

 his certificate to any person applying therefor, whether said article be impure 

 or adulterated, and for every such certificate he shall be entitled to the sum of 

 two dollars. 



3. Provisions as to analysis. Every inspector shall, whenever requested, make 

 an analysis of any such article which may be presented to him for that purpose, 

 and shall give his certificate to any person who shall apply therefor, of the 

 result of such analysis, for which certificate he shall be entitled to the sum of 

 ten dollars. 



4. Penalty for selling an impure article. Every person who shall sell salera- 

 tus, bicarbonate of soda or cream of tartar, which has been adulterated and 

 thereby rendered an impure article, shall be fined twenty dollars, together with 

 the cost of testing and analyzing such impure article; one-half of said fine to 

 the use of the city or town where such sale shall be made, and one-half thereof, 

 together with the cost of testing and analyzing such impure article, to the use 

 of the person who shall sue for the same. 



General Laws, 1890, p. 443. 



1. Certificate may l)e revoked for violation of law. Every certificate of regis- 

 tration hereafter granted under the provisions of this chapter (152) shall be 

 granted upon the condition that the person registered will not violate or permit 

 to be violated, upon the premises occupied by him thereunder, any of the pro- 

 visions of this chapter or of chapters 92 or 102 of the General Laws, and every 

 such certificate hereafter granted shall contain such condition written or printed 

 upon the face thereof, and such certificate and the registration of the person 

 named therein shall become and be null and void upon conviction of such per- 

 son of any offence, under either of said chapters, committed upon the premises 

 occupied by such registered person. 



2. Board of pharmacy to enforce laic. It shall be the duty of the board of 

 registration in pharmacy to investigate all complaints of disregard, non-com- 

 pliance with, or violation of the provisions of this chapter or of the provisions 

 of Chapter 102 of the General Laws relating to druggists and persons licensed 

 to sell medicines and poisons, and to bring all such cases to the notice of the 

 proper prosecuting officers. 



Public Laws, 1900-1, p. 2G2. 



