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all other poisonous vegetable alkaloids and their salts, essential oil of bitter 

 almonds, opium and its preparations, except paregoric and other preparations of 

 opium containing less than two grains to the ounce. 



SCHEDULE B. 



Aconite, belladona, colchicum, coniuni, nux vomica, henbane, savin, ergot 

 cotton-root, cantharides, creosote, digitalis, and their pharmaceutical preparations, 

 crotoii-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, and also the outside wrapper or cover, 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 poisons 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 legiti- 

 mate purpose. Nor shall it be lawful for any registered pharmacist to sell any 

 poisons included in schedule A without, before delivering the same to the pur- 

 chaser, 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 and quality of the 

 poison sold, the purpose for which it is represented by the purchaser 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 reference for at least five years. The 

 provisions of this section shall not apply to the dispensing of poisons, in not 

 unusual quantities or doses, upon the prescriptions of practitioners of medicine. 

 Nor shall it be lawful for any licensed or registered druggist or pharmacist in the 

 District of Columbia to retail or sell or give away any alcoholic liquors or com- 

 pounds as a beverage, to be drunk or consumed upon the premises. And any viola- 

 tion of the provisions of this section 'shall make the owner or principal of said 

 store or pharmacy liable to a fine of not less than twenty-five and not more than 

 one hundred dollars, to be collected in the usual manner. 



SEC. 11. Any itinerant vender of any drug, nostrum, ointment, or appliance of any 

 kind, intended for the treatment of diseases or injury, or who shall by writing, or 

 printing, or any other method, publicly professed to cure or treat diseases, injury or 

 deformity, by any drug, nostrum, manipulation, or oilier expedient, shall pay a 

 license of two hundred dollars per annum into the treasury of the District of 

 Columbia, to be collected in the usual way. 



SEC. 12. That any person who shall procure or attempt to procure registration for 

 himself or for another under this act, by making or causing to be made any false 

 representation, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall, upon conviction 

 thereof, be liable to a penalty of not less than twenty-live nor more than one hundred 

 dollars, and the name of the person so fraudulently registered shall be stricken from 

 the register. Any person not a registered pharmacist as provided for in this act, 

 who shall conduct a store, pharmacy, or place for retailing, compounding or dispens- 

 ing drugs, medicines, or chemicals for medicinal use, or for compounding, or dispens- 

 ing physicians' prescriptions, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upou 

 conviction thereof, shall be liable to a penalty of not less than fifty dollars. 



SEC. 13. That all fines and penalties under this act shall be collected in the same 

 manner that other fines and penalties are collected in the District of Columbia ; and 

 it shall be the duty of the United States district attorney for the District of Columbia 

 to prosecute all violations of this act. 



SEC. 14. That all acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act be, and the same 

 are hereby, repealed. 



Approved June 15, 1878. 



