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Editorial. 
/  Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
I       April,  1901. 
MISSOURI. 
Bills  have  been  introduced  in  the  Senate  and  House  to  amend 
the  present  law  so  that  physicians  cannot  register  upon  diplomas 
in  medicine. 
NEW  JERSEY. 
The  New  Jersey  Legislature  is  wrestling  with  a  bill  to  amend  the 
present  pharmacy  statute  by  defining  more  clearly  what  shall  con- 
stitute the  unlawful  practice  of  pharmacy,  giving  the  State  Board 
authority  to  employ  counsel,  enlarging  the  scope  of  examinations, 
and  empowering  the  Board  to  employ  inspectors  for  the  purpose  of 
detecting  violations  of  the  law. 
One  bill  makes  it  unlawful  for  any  person  in  the  State  to  refill 
any  bottle,  and  another  prohibits  the  adulteration  of  drugs. 
PENNSYLVANIA. 
In  this  State  bills  have  been  introduced  by  Senator  Snyder  and 
Representative  Stubb  to  amend  the  pharmacy  law  by  "  making 
additional  regulations  in  regard  to  the  practice  of  pharmacy,  and 
the  sale  of  medicines  and  poisons,  enlarging  and  defining  the 
powers  of  the  State  Pharmaceutical  and  Examining  Board,  and 
imposing  penalties  for  violation." 
The  bills,  if  enacted,  will  make  almost  an  entirely  new  pharmacy 
law  for  the  State. 
REPEAL  OF  THE  STAMP  TAX. 
It  is  estimated  that  the  repeal  of  the  special  tax  on  proprietary 
medicines  will  save  $4,000,000  annually  to  the  drug  trade  of  the 
United  States.  The  law  takes  effect  July  1st,  until  when  medicines 
must  bear  the  same  stamps  as  heretofore.  The  fact  that  the  repeal 
was  forced  in  the  face  of  the  most  determined  opposition  is  a  strik- 
ing evidence  of  the  force  which  the  pharmaceutical  profession  of 
the  United  States  is  capable  of  exerting  when  working  with  any 
approach  to  unanimity. 
EDITORIAL. 
PHARMACEUTICAL  JURISPRUDENCE. 
At  the  Montreal  meeting  of  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Asso- 
ciation, Joseph  Jacobs  proposed  (see  Proc,  1896,  p.  347)  that  measures 
