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address of the purchaser, the name and quantity of the poison sold, the purpose 

 for which it is stated by the purchaser to be required, and the name of the dispenser; 

 aaid book to always be open for inspection by the proper authorities, and to be 

 preserved for at least five years. The provisions of this section shall not apply to 

 the dispensing of poisons when prescribed by practitioners of medicine, nor to the 

 sale of poisons, if a single bottle or package does not contain more than an ordinary 

 dose. Dealers shall affix to every bottle, box, parcel or other inclosure of an original 

 package containing any of the articles named in schedules "A." and "B"of this 

 act, a suitable label or brand with the word " Poison," but they are hereby 

 exempted from the registration of the sale of such articles when sold at wholesale, or 

 to a registered pharmacist or physician. Any person failing to comply with the 

 requirements of this section shall be guilty of misdemeanor, and upon conviction 

 shall be liable to a fine not exceeding fifty dollars. 



SEC. 11. Any person who shall attempt to procure registration for himself, or for 

 any other person under this act, by making, or causing to be made, any false rep- 

 resentations, or who shall fraudulently represent himself to be registered, shall be 

 deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall, upon conviction thereof, be fined in a 

 sum not exceeding two hundred dollars. Any registered pharmacist who shall per- 

 mit the compounding and dispensing of prescriptions of medical practitioners in 

 his store by persons not registered, except by junior assistants under the direct 

 supervision of registered persons, or any person not registered who shall retail medi- 

 cines or poisons, except in a pharmacy under the supervision of a registered pharma- 

 cist or a registered assistant pharmacist, and any registered person who shall fail 

 to comply with the regulations of this act, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and 

 upon conviction thereof be fined not exceeding fifty dollars. Nothing in this act 

 shall apply to or interfere with the business of any practitioner of medicine who 

 does not keep a pharmacy or open shop for the retailing of medicines or poisons, 

 nor with the exclusive wholesale business of any dealer, except that portion of sec- 

 tion ten which relates to marking or labeling certain poisons mentioned in this Act. 

 Nor shall general dealers come under the provisions of this act, in so far as it relates 

 to the keeping for sale of proprietary medicines in original packages of drugs and 

 medicines; but in no case shall they compound or prepare any pharmaceutical 

 preparations or prescriptions. 



SEC. 12. All persons registered under this act shall be exempt and free from jury 



duty. 



SCHEDULE "A." 



Arsenic, corrosive sublimate, cynanide of potassium, hydrocyanic acid, strichnia, 

 cocaine, and all other poisonous vegetable alkaloids and their salts, opium, and all 

 its preparations, excepting those which contain less than two grains to the ounce. 



SCHEDULE "B." 



Aconite, belladonna, colchicum, conium, nux vomica, savin, cantharides, phos- 

 phorus, digitalis, and their pharmaceutical preparations, croton oil, chloroform, 

 chloral, sulphate of zinc, sugar of lead, mineral acids, carbolic acid, and oxalic 

 acid, white precipitate, red precipitate, biniodide of mercury, essential oil of almonds. 



All acts or parts of acts which conflict with this are hereby repealed. 



Approved, March 11, 1891. 



CHAPTER LVII. 



AN ACT to amend an act entitled "An aet to regulate the practice of pharmacy and sale of poisons 



in the State of California," approved March 11, 1891. 

 The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as 



folloivs : 



SECTION 1. Section six of said act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: 

 SEC. 6. Within thirty days after the passage of this act, and every fourth year 



thereafter, the governor shall appoint seven competent pharmacists, residing in dif- 



