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SEC. 14. Every permit-holder is hereby authorized to ship to registered pharma- 

 cists and manufacturers of proprietary medicines intoxicating liquors to he used by 

 them for the purposes authorized by this act. 



And all railway transportation and express companies, and other common carriers, 

 are authorized to receive and transport the same upon presentation of a certificate 

 from the clerk of the district court of the county where the permit-holder resides 

 that such person is permitted to ship intoxicating liquors, under the provisions of 

 this act. 



SEC. 15. A permit-holder may employ one or more registered pharmacists as clerks, 

 to sell intoxicating liquors in conformity to the permit and provisions of Ihis act, 

 but in such case the acts of his clerks in conducting the business shall be deemed 

 the acts of the permit-holder, who .shall be liable therefor as if he had personally 

 done the acts, and in making returns the verification of such requests as may have 

 been received, attested, and filled by a clerk must be made by such clerk, and the 

 clerk who transacted any of the business under the permit must join in the general 

 oath required of the employer so far as relates to his own connection therewith. If 

 for any cause a registered pharmacist who holds a permit shall cease to hold a valid 

 and subsisting certificate of registration or renewal thereof his permit shall thereby 

 be forfeited and be null and void. 



SEC. 16. Any person holding a permit in force when this act takes effect may 

 continue to purchase, keep, and sell intoxicating liquors (according to law) for the 

 time provided in such permit, unless sooner revoked. But all such permits shall 

 expire not later than January 1st, 1891. 



SEC. 17. If any person shall be convicted of violating any of the provisions of 

 this act or acts regulating the practice of pharmacy <>i any acts for the suppression 

 of intemperance, or amendments thereto by reason of a prosecution by the commis- 

 sioners of pharmacy, the clear proceeds of all lines so imposed and collected shall be 

 paid into the county treasury of the proper county for the use of the school fund, 

 and the commissioners of pharmacy shall be entitled to draw from the State treasury 

 an amount not exceeding 50 per cent of the amount of the lines so collected, to be 

 used solely in prosecutions instituted by them for failure to comply with the provis- 

 ions of this act or of the acts regulating the practice of pharmacy. And the court 

 or clerk thereof before whom any prosecution is instituted and prosecuted by the 

 commissioners of pharmacy shall certify to the auditor of State all cases in which 

 they have appeared as prosecutors, either in person or by their attorney, and the 

 amount of fines imposed and collected in such cases. And the commissioners of 

 pharmacy shall have the power to revoke the certificate of registration of pharmacists 

 for repeated violations of this act. Said amount to be drawn from time to time upon 

 the warrants of the State auditor, which shall issue for the payment of expenses 

 actually incurred in said prosecution after said expenses shall have been audited by 

 the executive council. 



SEC. 18. If any person shrill make any false or fictitious signature or sign any 

 name other than his or her own to any paper required to be signed by this act or 

 make any false statement in any paper or application signed to procure liquors 

 under this act, the person so offending shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, 

 and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine of not less than twenty (20) 

 dollars nor more than one hundred (100) dollars and cost of prosecution, and shall 

 be committed until said fine and costs are paid, or be imprisoned not less than 

 ten or more than thirty days. If any permit holder or his clerk shall make false 

 oath touching any matter required to be sworn to under the provisions of this act, 

 the person so offending shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished as provided by 

 law for perjury. If any person holding a permit under this law shall purchase or 

 procure any intoxicating liquor otherwise than authorized by this act, or make any 

 false return to the county auditor, or use any request for liquors for more than one 

 sale, in any of such cases ho shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon con- 

 viction, punished accordingly. 



