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practicing physician whose name is attached to the order, is guilty of a misde- 

 meanor. 



SEC. 403. A person whose duty it is by the last section to keep -a book for record- 

 ing the sale or gift of poisons, who willfully refuses to permit any person to inspect 

 said book upon reasonable demand, made during ordinary business hours, is punish- 

 able by a tine not exceeding fifty dollars. 



SKC. 404. (As sini'd by L 1886 ch. 390.) A person who sells, gives away, or dis- 

 poses of any poison or poisonous substance (except upon the order or prescription 

 of a regularly authorized practicing physician), without attaching to the vial, box, 

 or parcel containing such poisonous substance a label with the name and residence 

 of such person, the word ''poison," and the name of such poison, all written or 

 printed thereon in plain and legible characters; and a person who, after the first 

 day of January, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, sells, gives away, or disposes 

 of, or offers for sale any sulphate or other preparation of opium or morphine, except 

 paregoric and those preparations containing two grains or less of opium or morphine 

 to the ounce, without attaching to the bottle, vial, box, or package containing 

 such sulphate or other preparation of opium or morphine, a scarlet label lettered in 

 white letters, plainly naming the contents thereof, with the name and residence of 

 such person, is guilty of a misdemeanor. 



SEC. 405. No person employed in a drug store or apothecary's shop shall prepare 

 a medical prescription unless he has served two years' apprenticeship in such a store 

 or shop, or is a graduate of a medical college or college of pharmacy, except under 

 the direct supervision of some person possessing one of those qualifications; nor 

 shall any proprietor or other person in charge of such store or shop permit any per- 

 son not possessing such qualifications to prepare a medical prescription in his store 

 or shop, except under such supervision. A person violating any provision of this 

 section is guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine not exceeding one hundred 

 dollars, or by imprisonment not exceeding six months; and in case of death ensuing 

 from such violation, the person offending is guilty of a felony, punishable by a fine 

 not less than one thousand dollars nor more than five thousand dollars, or by impris- 

 onment not less than two years nor more than four years, or by both such fine and 

 imprisonment. 



CHAPTER 636 OF THE LAWS OF 1887. 



AN ACT to regulate the sale of morphine hy druggists and apothecaries in this State. 



Passed June 21, 1887; three-fifths being present. 



The people of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as 

 follows : 



SECTION 1. From and after the passage of this act no pharmacist, druggist, 

 apothecary, or other person shall refill, more than once, prescriptions containing 

 opium or morphine or preparations of either in which the dose of opium shall exceed 

 one-fourth grain or morphine one-twentieth grain, except with the verbal or written 

 order of a physician. 



SEC. 2. Any person violating the provisions of section one of this act shall be 

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

 less than ten dollars nor more than twenty-five dollars, in the discretion of the 

 court, for each and every such offense. 



SEC. 3. This act shall take effect immediately. 



NORTH CAROLINA. 



Tlie General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: 



SECTION 1. That E. M. Nadal, S. J. Hinsdale, William Simpson, E. H. Meadows, T. C. 

 Smith, John S. Pescud, and such other persons as may be associated with them under 

 the provisions of this act, be and the same are hereby, made a body corporate under 

 the name and style of the North Carolina Pharmaceutical Association, and by said 



