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prescribed,  and  such  sale  and  delivery  shall  be  in  strict  compliance  with  such 
order  or  prescription,  which  shall  be  retained  by  such  druggist  or  apothecary 
and  by  him  safely  kept.  But  no  such  order  or  prescription  shall  be  honored 
by  any  druggist  or  apothecary  longer  than  one  week  after  it  bears  date  and 
shall  be  only  filled  once.  Any  practitioner  of  medicine,  surgery  or  obstetrics 
legally  authorized  to  practice  as  aforesaid,  may  sell  or  administer  to  or  prescribe 
for  any  person  such  opium,  morphine,  codeine,  cocaine  or  their  various  salts  or 
chloral  when,  and  as  and  only  when  and  as  in  his  judgment  actually  conducive 
to  such  person's  physical  welfare,  but  all  prescriptions  or  orders  which  he  shall 
issue  for  procuring  the  same  from  a  druggist  or  apothecary  shall  bear  the  date 
on  which  the  same  shall  be  by  him  signed.  Any  person  may  administer  to 
himself  or  others  any  opium,  morphine,  codeine,  cocaine  or  their  various  salts, 
or  chloral  under  and  subject  to  and  in  accordance  with  the  order  and  directions 
of  any  such  practitioner  of  medicine,  surgery  or  obstetrics,  but  not  otherwise. 
Sec.  2.  No  person  except  as  above  set  forth  shall  sell,  give  away,  deliver  or 
cause  to  be  sold,  given  away  or  delivered  to  any  one  or  administer  or  cause  to 
be  administered  to  himself  or  any  other  person,  or  use  or  cause  to  be  used 
in  any  manner  any  opium,  morphine,  codeine,  cocaine  or  their  various  salts  or 
chloral;  and  any  person  so  doing  and  any  person  violating  any  of  the  pro- 
visions or  requirements  of  this  act  shall  be  deemed  guilty  of  a  misdemeanor, 
and  upon  conviction  shall  be  sentenced  to  pay  a  fine  not  exceeding  $500 
and  undergo  an  imprisonment  not  exceeding  one  year  or  either  or  both  in 
the  discretion  of  the  court. 
PHILADELPHIA  ASSOCIATION  OF  RETAIL 
DRUGGISTS. 
More  than  usual  interest  was  taken  in  our  meeting  of  March  3d,  a  larger 
number  being  present  than  at  any  previous  meeting.  The  bond  of  Treas- 
urer B.  R.  Smiley  for  $1, 000  was  approved,  and  the  West  Philadelphia  Title 
and  Trust  Company  named  as  the  bank  for  depositing  the  funds  of  the  Asso- 
ciation. 
Mr.  W.  Iv.  Cliffe  called  the  attention  of  the  Association  to  a  bill  which  had 
been  presented  at  Harrisburg  relating  to  the  sale  of  opium  preparations,  etc. 
President  Mclntyre  appointed  Messrs.  Cliffe,  Finnerty  and  Swain  to  act  as  a 
committee,  and  draft  a  set  of  resolutions  protesting  against  the  passage  of  such 
an  act,  as  it  would  be  against  the  interest  of  every  retail  druggist  in  the  State 
of  Pennsylvania,  as  they  would  require  a  prescription  for  every  sale  of  pare- 
goric and  similar  preparations. 
President  Mclntyre  has  taken  the  resolutions  to  Harrisburg,  to  place  in  the 
hands  of  the  chairman  of  the  committee  which  has  the  obnoxious  bill  in  charge. 
The  following  is  a  copy  of  resolutions  protesting  against  passage  of  Senate 
Bill  No..  118  : 
Philadelphia,  March  3,  1899. 
To  the  Honorable,  the  Committee,  on  Public  Health  and  Sanitation  of  the  Gen- 
eral Assembly  of  the  Commonwealth  of  Pennsylvania : 
Whereas,  A  bill  (No.  118,  Senate  file)  has  been  introduced,  designed  for  the 
purpose  of  regulating  the  sale  of  opium  and  cocaine,  and  preventing  the  inju- 
