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2.  The  prescribing  and  dispensing  of  alcoholic  liquors  on  bona 
fide  prescriptions  in  accordance  with  the  provisions  of  this  act  shall 
be  deemed  and  is  hereby  defined  as  in  performance  of  the  professional 
duty  of  the  medical  practitioner  and  the  pharmacist,  and  the  pharma- 
cist shall  not  by  reason  of  such  professional  duty  be  classified  as  a 
dealer  in  alcoholic  beverages  nor  shall  he  be  subject  to  the  license 
fees  that  are  exacted  of  dealers  in  alcoholic  beverages,  ncr  shall  the 
dispensing  of  alcoholic  liquors  in  the  discharge  of  his  professional 
service  be  construed  as  violating  the  provisions  of  the  enactments  of 
this  State  or  of  any  political  subdivision  thereof  enacted  for  the 
purpose  of  restricting  and  controlling  the  sale  and  use  of  alcoholic 
liquors  as  beverages  and  commonly  spoken  of  as  local  option  and 
prohibition  laws;  provided,  that  nothing  in  this  act  shall  be  con- 
strued as  preventing  the  sale  and  use  of  alcohol  when  properly 
medicated  and  sold  in  accordance  with  the  regulations  of  the  Bureau 
of  Internal  Revenue  of  the  Treasury  Department  of  the  United 
States  nor  with  the  manufacture,  sale  and  use  of  denatured  alcohol, 
nor  with  manufacture,  sale  and  use  of  wines  for  sacramental  and  like 
religious  rites  in  accordance  with  the  Federal  statutes. 
3.  Any  person  violating  any  of  the  provisions  of  section  one  of 
