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VARIETIES. 
the purchaser is known, and who signs his name, together with his 
place of abode, to such entries, before the delivery of the Arsenic to the 
purchaser, and no person shall sell Arsenic to any person other than a per- 
son of full age. 
3. No person shall sell any Arsenic unless the same be, before the sale 
thereof, mixed with soot or indigo in the proportion of one ounce of soot or 
half an ounce of indigo at the least to one pound of the Arsenic, and so in 
proportion for any greater or less quantity : Provided always, that where 
such Arsenic is stated by the purchaser to be required, not for use in agri- 
culture, but for some other purpose for which such admixture would, accord- 
ing to the representation of the purchaser, render it unfit, such Arsenic may 
be sold without such admixture, in a quantity not less than ten pounds at 
any one time. 
4. If any person shall sell any Arsenic, save as authorized by this Act, 
or on any sale of Arsenic shall deliver the same without having made and 
signed the entries hereby required on such sale, or without having obtained 
such signature or signatures to such entries as required by this Act, or if 
any person purchasing any Arsenic shall give false information to the per- 
son selling the same in relation to the particulars which said last-mentioned 
person is hereby authorized to inquire into of such purchaser, or if any 
person shall sign his name as aforesaid as a witness to a sale of Arsenic to 
a person unknown to the person so signing as witness, every person so of- 
fending, shall for every such offence, upon a summary conviction for the 
same, before two justices of the peace in England or Ireland, or before two 
justices of the peace or the sheriff in Scotland, be liable to a penalty not 
exceeding twenty pounds. 
5. Provided, That this Act shall not extend to the sale of Arsenic when 
the same forms part of the ingredients of any medicine required to be made 
up or compounded according to the prescription of a legally qualified 
medical practitioner, or a member of the medical profession, or to the sale 
of Arsenic by wholesale to retail dealers, upon orders in writing in the or- 
dinary course of wholesale dealing. 
6. In the construction of this Act, the word " Arsenic" shall include Ar- 
senious Acid and the Arsenites, Arsenic Acid and the Arseniates, and all 
other colorless poisonous preparations of Arsenic. 
THE SCHEDULE. 
Day of Sale. 
Name and Surname 
of Purchaser. 
Purchaser'* Place 
of Abode. 
Condition oi 
Occupation. 
Quantity of 
Arsenic sold. 
Purpose 
for which 
required 
1 Septem- 
ber, 1851- 
John Thomas 
Heridon 
Elm 
Farm. 
Farm 
Laboier. 
5 pounds 
To steep 
wheat. 
{Purchaser's Signature) Witness, (Seller's Signature.) 
John Thomas. James Stone, George Wood. 
Or if purchaser cannot write, Seller Grove Farm, Hendon. 
to put here tlie words, 'cannot write.' — Lon. Pharm. Journ. July, 1851, 
