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SEC. 8. That no person shall be allowed by the proprietor or manager of any store 

 or place where prescriptions are compounded to compound or dispense the prescrip- 

 tions of physicians except under the immediate supervision of said proprietor or his 

 qualified assistant, unless holding a properly certified certificate of registration or 

 competency from the state pharmaceutical examining board as herein provided, 

 and any person violating the provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of a 

 misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine not exceeding 

 one hundred dollars. 



SEC. 9. That no person shall knowingly, willfully, or fraudulently falsify or adul- 

 terate, or cause to be falsified or adulterated, any drug or medical substance or any 

 preparation authorized or recognized by the pharmacopoeia of the United States, or 

 used or intended to be used in medicinal practice, nor mix or cause to be mixed with 

 any such drug or medicinal substance any foreign or inert substance whatsoever, for 

 the purpose of destroying or weakening its medicinal power and effect, and willfully, 

 knowingly, or fraudulently sell or cause the same to be sold for medicinal purposes. 



Any person who shall violate this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, 

 and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine not exceeding five hundred 

 dollars, and shall forfeit to the commonwealth all articles so adulterated. 



SEC. 10. Poisons. -A poison in the meaning of this act shall be any drug, chemical, 

 or preparation which, according to standard works on medicine or materia medica, 

 is liable to be destructive to adult human life in quantities of sixty grains or less. 



No person shall sell at retail any poisons except as herein provided, without affixing 

 to the bottle, box, vessel, or package containing the same, a label, printed or plainly 

 written, containing the name of the article, the word "poison," and the name and 

 place of business of the seller; nor shall he deliver poison to any person without 

 satisfying himself that such poison is to be used for legitimate purposes. 



It shall be the further duty of anyone selling or dispensing poisons, which are 

 known to be destructive to adult human life in quantities of five grains or less, 

 before delivering them to enter in a book, kept for this purpose, the name of the 

 seller, the name and residence of the buyer, the name of the article, quantity sold 

 or disposed of, and the purpose for which it is said to be intended, which book of 

 registry shall bo preserved for at least two years, and shall at all times be open to 

 the inspection of the coroner or courts of the county in which the same may be kept. 



The provisions of this section shall not apply to the dispensing of physicians' pre- 

 scriptions specifying poisonous articles, nor to the sale to agriculturists of such 

 articles as are commonly used by them as insecticides. Any person failing to com- 

 ply with the provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, 

 and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not less than five nor 

 more than fifty dollars for each and every offense. 



* SEC. 11. Repealed. 



SEC. 12. It shall be the duty of the State pharmaceutical examining board to 

 investigate all complaints and charges of noncompliance or violation of the provi- 

 sions of this act, and prosecute all persons so offending whenever there shall appear 

 to the board reasonable ground for such action. 



SEC. 13. That all acts and parts of acts, so far as they may be in conflict with 

 this, are hereby declared void and of no effect. 



Approved May 24, 1887. 



*AN ACT to repeal Sec. 11 of an act entitled " 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 Penn- 

 sylvania," approved the twenty-fourth day of May, anno Domini one thousand eight hundred 

 and eighty-seven. 



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 section 11 of an act entitled "An act to regulate the 

 practice of pharmacy and sale of poisons, and to prevent adulterations in drugs 



