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LABEL LAW. 

 AN ACT to provide for the proper labeling of poisonous articles. 



SECTION 1. Be it enaded by the Gcnearal Assembly of the State of Ohio, That whenever 

 any pharmacist, druggist, or other dealer in poisons, chemicals, medicines, and drugs, 

 whether wholesale or retail, shall sell any drug or chemical an indiscriminate or 

 careless use of which would he destructive of human life, such dealer shall affix to 

 each bottle or package of such drug, chemical, or poison a label printed in red ink, 

 having on it the name of the article by which it is commonly known, the cautionary 

 emblem of the skull and crossbones, the words " caution" and "poison," and in 

 addition thereto at least two of the most readily obtainable effective antidotes to 

 such poisonous articles. 



SEC. 2. Whoever violates the provisions of section one (1) of this act shall, upon 

 conviction thereof before any court having competent jurisdiction, be fined in any 

 sum not exceeding one hundred dollars nor less than ten dollars. 



SEC. 3. This act shall take effect and be in force sixty days after its passage. 



POISON LAW. 



Whoever sells or gives away any quantity of arsenic less than one pound without 

 first mixing therewith soot or indigo in the proportion of one ounce of soot or half 

 an ounce of indigo to the pound of arsenic, or except upon the prescription of a 

 physician sells or gives away any quantity of any article belonging to the class 

 usually denominated poisons, to any minor, or sells or gives away any such article 

 to any person, without having first marked the word "poison" upon the label or 

 wrapper containing the same and registered, in a book to be by him kept for that 

 purpose, the day and date upon which it is sold or given away, the quantity thereof, 

 the name, age, sex, and color of person obtaining the same, the purpose for which it is 

 required, and the name and place of abode of the person for whom the same is 

 intended, shall be fined not more than two hundred nor less than twenty dollars. 



PENNSYLVANIA. 



AN ACT to regulate the practice of pharmacy and sale of poisons and to prevent adulterations in 

 drugs and medicinal preparations in the State of Pennsylvania. 



Whereas, the safety of the public is endangered by want of care in the sale of 

 poisons, whether to be used as such for such legitimate purposes or employed as 

 medicines and dispensed on the prescriptions of physicians; 



And whereas, the ability of physicians to overcome disease depends greatly on 

 their obtaining good and unadulterated drugs and properly prepared medicines; 



And whereas, the persons to whom the preparation and sale of drugs, medicines, 

 and poisons properly belong, known as apothecaries, chemists, and druggists or 

 pharmacists, should possess a practical knowledge of the business and science of 

 pharmacy in all its relations : Therefore, 



SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Common- 

 wealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority 

 of the same, That the first section of the act entitled "'An act to regulate the prac- 

 tice of pharmacy and sale of poisons and to prevent adulterations in drugs and 

 medicinal preparations in the State of Pennsylvania," approved the twenty-fourth 

 day of May, anno domini one thousand eight hundred and eighty-seven, which 

 reads as follows : 



"SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Common- 

 wealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority 

 of the same, That hereafter no person whomsoever shall open, or carry on as mana- 

 ger, in the State of Pennsylvania, any retail drug or chemical store, nor engage in 

 the business of compounding or dispensing medicines or prescriptions of physicians, 

 or of selling at retail any drugs, chemicals, poisons, or medicines, without having 



