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In  view  of  its  general  importance,  I  feel  justified  in  giving"  the 
text  of  the  Drug  Act.1 
AN  ACT 
Preamble. — To  prevent  the  adulteration,  alteration,  and  substi- 
tution of  drugs  and  medicinal  preparations,  and  providing  penalties 
for  violation  thereof. 
Section  i.  Be  it  enacted,  etc.,  That  No  person  shall,  within  this 
State,  manufacture  for  sale,  offer  for  sale,  or  sell  any  drug  which 
is  adulterated  within  the  meaning  of  this  Act.  The  term  drug  used 
herein  shall  include  any  medicinal  substance  or  any  preparation 
authorized  or  known  in  the  cc  Pharmacopoeia  of  the  United  States," 
or  the  "  National  Formulary,"  or  the  American  Homoeopathic  Phar- 
macopoeia, or  the  American  Homoeopathic  Dispensatory. 
A  drug  shall  be  deemed  to  be  adulterated  within  the  meaning 
of  this  Act: 
1.  If  any  substance  or  substances  have  been  mixed  with  it  so 
as  to  depreciate  and  weaken  its  strength,  purity,  or  quality. 
2.  If  any  quality,  substance,  or  ingredient  be  abstracted  so  as 
to  deteriorate  or  affect  injuriously  the  quality  or  potency  of  the 
said  drug. 
3.  If  any  inferior  or  cheaper  substance  or  substances  have  been 
substituted  in  whole  or  part  for  it. 
4.  If  it  is  an  imitation  or  is  sold  under  the  name  of  another 
drug. 
5.  If  the  drug  shall  be  so  altered  that  the  nature,  quality,  sub- 
stance, commercial  value,  or  medicinal  value  of  it  will  not  corre- 
spond to  the  recognized  formulae  or  tests  of  the  latest  edition  of 
the  "  National  Formulary,"  or  of  the  "  Pharmacopoeia  of  the  United 
States,"  or  of  the  American  Homoeopathic  Pharmacopoeia,  or  the 
American  Homoeopathic  Dispensatory,  regarding  quality  or  purity. 
On  complaint  being  entered,  the  State  Pharmaceutical  Examin- 
1  Since  the  preparation  of  this  paper  the  legislation  in  the  matter  of  the 
manufacture  and  sale  of  adulterated  drugs  has  been  revised  by  passage  of 
-the  Act  of  Assembly  of  the  8th  of  May  A.D.,  1909,  to  be  in  force  and  effect 
from  and  after  the  first  of  October  A.D.,  1909.  By  this  Act  the  method  of 
enforcement  of  the  law  is  somewhat  altered,  the  powers  conferred  on  the 
State  Board  extended,  and  while  in  some  respects  greater  liberality  is 
shown  to  the  manufacturer  and  seller,  provided  the  standard  is  correctly 
stated  on  the  label,  yet  in  other  respects  he  is  held  to  a  stricter  accountability 
in  the  manufacture  and  sale  of  pharmacal  preparations. — A.  C.  T. 
