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admits  such  sale,  it  shall  devolve  upon  him  to  show  that  he  sold  such 
intoxicating  liquor  legally  ;  and  it  shall  be  no  defense  for  the  defend- 
ant to  show  that  he  was  doing  business  under  a  merchant's  license, 
or  that  he  was  a  registered  pharmacist,  a  druggist,  or  the  proprietor  of 
a  drug  store,  unless  he  shall  show  that  such  sale,  if  made,  was  made 
in  conformity  to  the  provisions  of  the  lazv  concerning  merchants  or 
druggists. 
As  a  druggist  would  necessarily  admit  a  legal  sale  of  liquor,  he 
would  stand  prima  facie  convicted  of  crime  under  this  section,  and 
would  be  open  to  endless  blackmail  and  persecution  if  it  should 
become  a  law. 
MINNESOTA. 
The  Hillmond  Bill,  which  has  the  support  of  the  prohibition  in- 
terests, makes  it  a  misdemeanor  for  a  physician  to  prescribe  more 
than  two  "  apothecary  ounces  "  of  distilled,  vinous,  or  malt  liquors 
for  any  one  person  in  any  one  day.  If  th>s  should  become  a  law,  its 
effect  would  be  to  render  illegal  the  use  of  alcoholic  liquors  in  the 
class  of  cases  in  which  they  are  of  most  benefit,  while  it  would  have 
little  or  no  effect  upon  the  improper  use  of  liquor  by  those  who  are 
determined  to  possess  it. 
TENNESSEE. 
The  following  curiosity,  known  as  the  Wickham  Bill,  has  been 
introduced  into  the  legislature  of  the  State  of  Tennessee : 
"  Section  i.  Be  it  enacted  by  the  General  Assembly  of  the  State  of 
Tennessee,  that  it  shall  be  a  misdemeanor  for  any  person  or  persons 
to  sell  or  give  away  within  the  State  of  Tennessee,  any  morphine  or 
any  preparation  or  mixtures  containing  the  active  property  or 
principle  of  morphine,  except  on  the  written  prescription  of  a  prac- 
tising physician,  and  said  prescription  is  not  to  be  refilled,  except 
at  the  instance  of  the  physician  giving  the  prescription,  who  shall 
give  written  permission  to  the  party  to  whom  prescription  was 
given,  to  have  same  refilled  ;  provided,  that  nothing  in  this  act 
shall  apply  to  the  wholesale  dealer  in  supplying  the  retail  dealer, 
or  to  the  retail  dealer  who  may  sell  to  practising  physician. 
Sec.  2.  Be  it  further  enacted,  that  any  person  or  persons  vio- 
lating the  provisions  of  this  act  shall  be  deemed  guilty  of  a  misde- 
meanor, and  on  conviction  shall  be  fined  not  less  than  $10,  nor 
more  than  $500,  and  imprisoned  in  the  county  jail  where  the  person 
