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visions of this section, or who when purchasing any of the articles herein named 

 shall give a false or fictitious name to the vender thereof, shall be fined not less than 

 ten nor more than one hundred dollars. 



SEC. 3131. Every person who shall sell any of the articles named in the schedule 

 accompanying this section, marked schedule A, except when prescribed by a practis- 

 ing physician, or sola at wholesale to licensed pharmacists, or for use in manufac- 

 tures or the arts, shall label the bottle, box, or wrapper containing any such article 

 with a label upon which shall be plainly written or printed the word " poison/' and 

 any person violating the provisions of this section shall be fined one dollar. 



SCHEDULE A. 



Acid carbolic, ammoniated mercury, acid muriatic, chloroform, acid nitric, tinct. 

 aconite, acid sulphuric, tiuct. belladonna, acid oxalic, tinct. digitalis, creosote, tinct. 

 opium, extract belladonna, tinct. veratrum viride, sugar of lead, morphine, croton 

 oil, nux voinica, cobalt, extract nux vomica, oil bitter almonds, opium, oil tansy, 

 coculusindicus, aqua ammonia, red oxide mercury, gelsemium, paris green, rat dyna- 

 mite, rough on rats, or any article like the three last named. 



SEC. 3132. Police courts and city courts having criminal jurisdiction where estab- 

 lished, and justices of the peace in towns where such courts do not exist, shall hear 

 and determine prosecutions for violations of the provisions of this chapter. 



DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. 



AN ACT to regulate the practice of pharmacy of the District of Columbia. 



Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of Amer- 

 ica in Congress assembled, That from and after tbe passage of this act it shall be 

 unlawful for any person not a registered pharmacist within the meaning of this 

 act, to conduct any pharmacy or store for the purpose of retailing, compounding, or 

 dispensing medicines or poisons, for medical use, in the District of Columbia, except 

 as hereinafter provided. 



SECTION 2. That it shall be unlawful for the proprietor of any store or pharmacy 

 to allow any person, except a registered pharmacist, to compound or dispense the 

 prescriptions of physicians, or to retail or dispense poisons for medical use, except 

 as an aid to, and under the immediate supervision of, a registered pharmacist. Any 

 person violating the provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misde- 

 meanor, and, on conviction thereof, shall be liable to a fine of not less than twenty- 

 five dollars nor more than one hundred dollars for each and every such offense. 



SEC. 3. That immediately after the passage of this act, and biennially thereafter 

 or as often as necessary, the Commissioners of the District of Columbia shall 

 appoint three pharmacists and two physicians, all of whom shall have been resi- 

 dents of the District of Columbia for five years, and of at least five years' practical 

 experience m their respective professions, who shall be known and styled as com- 

 missioners of pharmacy for the District of Columbia, who shall serve without com- 

 pensation, and who shall hold office for two years, and until their successors are 

 appointed and qualified. Said commissioners shall, within thirty days after the 

 notification of their appointment, each take and subscribe to an oath to impartially 

 and faithfully discharge their duties as prescribed by this act. The position of any 

 commissioner who shall fail to so qualify within the time named shall be vacant, 

 and the vacancy or vacancies so occurring, or any vacancy or vacancies that may 

 occur, shall be filled by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia. 



SEC. 4. That the commissioners of pharmacy shall keep a book of registration 

 open at some convenient place within the city of Washington, of which due notice 

 shall be given through the public press, and shall record therein the name am 

 place of business of every person registered under this act. It shall be the duty of 



