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or used or intended to be used in medical practice; or shall mix or cause to be 

 mixed with any such drug or medicinal substance any foreign or inert sub- 

 stance whatsoever for the purpose of destroying or weakening its medicinal 

 power and effect, or of lessening its cost, and shall wilfully and knowingly 

 or fraudulently sell or cause the same to be sold for medicinal purposes, shall 

 be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall pay a 

 penalty not exceeding five hundred dollars, and shall forfeit to the State of 

 South Dakota all articles so adulterated. (Lair* /NX?, p. 302.) 



282. Penalty for -neglect of duty by member of board of pharmacy. Any mem- 

 ber of the board of pharmacy or officer therein provided for, who shall wil- 

 fully neglect any of the duties provided for in this article or who sha.ll aid or 

 abet any person in the evasion or violation of this article shall be deemed 

 guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not less 

 than fifty dollars for each and every offense and any person violating any 

 provision of this article shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and fined not less 

 than fifty dollars, unless otherwise provided in this article. (Laws 1893, p. 

 221.) 



284. Disposition of penalties. All penalties collected under the provisions of 

 this article shall inure to the South Dakota Pharmaceutical Association. 

 (Laws 1893, p. 222.) 



Revised Codes, 1903, p. 52-53. 



278. Adulteration of drills prohibited. No person shall add to or remove 

 from any drug, medicine, chemical or pharmaceutical preparation any ingredient 

 or material for the purpose of adulteration or substitution, which will alter 

 the nature or composition of such drugs or other preparation. Any person 

 who shall thus wilfully adulterate or alter, or shall sell or offer for sale any 

 such adulterated or altered preparation or cause to be substituted one material 

 for another with the intention to defraud or deceive the purchaser, shall be 

 deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and be liable to prosecution under this article. 

 (Laws 1893, p. 220.) 



467. Manufacture or sale of adulterated article* a misdemeanor. Every per- 

 son who adulterates or dilutes any* article of food, drink, drug, medicine, strong, 

 spirituous or malt liquor, cr wine, or any article useful in compounding either 

 of them, whether one useful for mankind or for animals, with a fraudulent 

 intent to offer the same, or cause or permit it to be offered for sale as una- 

 dulterated or undiluted, and every person who fraudulently sells or keeps or 

 offers for sale the same as unadulterated or undiluted, knowing it to have 

 been adulterated or diluted, is guilty of a misdemeanor. 



468. Sale of tainted or unicholesoine articles a misdemeanor. Every person 

 who knowingly sells, or keeps or offers for sale, or otherwise disposes of any 

 article of food, drink, drug or medicine, knowing that the same has become 

 tainted, decayed, spoiled or otherwise unwholesome or unfit to be eaten or 

 drank, with intent to permit the same to be eaten or drank by any person or 

 animal, is guilty of a misdemeanor. 



Revised Codes, 1903, p. 1149-1150. 



14. Penalty for misdemeanor. Except in cases where a different punishment 

 is prescribed by this code, or by some existing provisions of law, every offense 

 declared to be a misdemeanor is punishable by imprisonment in a county jail 

 not exceeding one year, or by a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, or by 

 both such fine and imprisonment. 



Revised Codes, 1903, p. 1099. 



