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^>r neglect to procure his annual registration, or any person who shall willfully make 

 x any false representation to procure registration for himself or any other person, 

 V shall, f or every offense, be liable to a penalty of fifty dollars: Provided, That iioth- 

 jng in this act shall apply to nor in any way interfere with the business of any 

 physician or prevent him from supplying to his patients such articles as may seem 

 to him proper, nor with the making or vending of patent or proprietary inedicfties, 

 or medicines placed in sealed packages, with the name of the contents and of the 

 pharmacist or physician by whom prepared or compounded, nor with the sale of the 

 usual domestic remedies by retail dealers, nor with the exclusively wholesale busi- 

 ness of any dealers, as hereinafter provided: And provided, further, That no part of 

 this section shall be so construed as to give the right to any physician to furnish 

 any intoxicating liquors as a beverage, on prescription or otherwise. 



SEC. 12. No person shall add to or remove from any drug, medicine, chemical, or 

 pharmaceutical preparation any ingredient or material for the purpose of adultera- 

 tion or substitution, or which shall deteriorate the quality, commercial or medicinal 

 effect, or which shall alter the nature or composition of such drug, medicine, chem- 

 ical, or pharmaceutical preparation so that ifc will not correspond to the recognized 

 test of identity or purity. Any person who shall thus willfully adulterate or alter, 

 or cause to be adulterated or altered, or shall sell or offer for sale any such adulter- 

 ated or altered drug, medicine, chemical, or pharmaceutical preparation, or any 

 person who shall substitute, or cause to be substituted, one material for another 

 with the intention to defraud or deceive the purchaser, shall be guilty of a misde- 

 meanor and be liable to prosecution under this act. If convicted he shall be liable 

 to all the costs of the action and all expenses incurred by the commissioners of 

 pharmacy in connection therewith, and for the first offense be liable to a fine of not 

 less than fifty dollars nor more than one hundred dollars, and for each subsequent 

 offense a fine of not less than seventy-five nor more than one hundred and fifty dol- 

 lars. 



On complaint being entered the commissioners of pharmacy are hereby empowered 

 to employ an analyst or chemical expert, whose duty it shall be to examine into the 

 so-claimed adulteration, substitution, or alteration and report upon the result of his 

 investigation; and if said report justify such action the commission shall duly 

 cause the prosecution of the offender, as provided in this law. 



SEC. 13. No person shall sell at retail any poisons commonly recognized as such, 

 and especially aconite, arsenic, belladonna, biuiodide of mercury, carbolic acid, 

 chloral hydrate, chloroform, coniuin, corrosive sublimate, creosote, croton oil, 

 cyanide of potassium, digitalis, hydrocyanic acid, laudanum, morphine, uux vomica, 

 oil of bitter almonds, opium, oxalic acid, strychnine, sugar of lead, sulphate of zinc, 

 white precipitate, red precipitate, without affixing to the box, bottle, vessel, or 

 package containing the same, and the wrapper or cover thereof, a label bearing the 

 name of the article and the word " poison" distinctly shown, with the name and 

 place of business of the seller; who shall not deliver any of said poisons to any per- 

 son under the age of fifteen years, nor shall he deliver any of said poisons to any person 

 without satisfying himself that such poison is to be used for a legitimate purpose : 

 Provided, That nothing herein contained shall apply to the dispensing of physicians' 

 prescriptions of any of the poisons or articles aforesaid. It shall be the duty of the 

 person vending any of the poioons aforesaid, before delivering the same to the pur- 

 chaser, to cause an entry to be made in a book kept for that purpose, stating the 

 date of sale, the name and address of the purchaser, the name and quantity of the 

 poison sold, and the name of the dispenser; and such book shall always be open for 

 inspection by the proper authorities and shall be preserved for reference for at least 

 two years. Any person failing to comply with the requirements of this section shall 

 be liable to a penalty often dollars for each and every offense. 



SEC. 14. All suits for the recovery of the several penalties prescribed in this act 

 shall be prosecuted in the name of the Territory of Wyoming, in any court having 



