The Somerset reporter., 1899-03-23

Section ~. NO 1o1tDtD400 opoI1oc0xy
shall suffer or permit ths - u his name
or certificate Of resistratlon In the conduct
of business of pharmacy when he himself
Is not actively engaged In such business In
the store where his certificate Is displayed
Section IL. 1t shall not be lawful for
any store to be kept open for the sale OF
medicines OF poisons, for compromising
physicians prescriptions, nor shall drugs
or medicines be exposed displayed for
sale In any store, except as otherwise pro-
vided herein, unless the same Is placed and
kept under the personal control and SUI
pervison of a registered apothecary or
qualified assistant, but such store may be
under the charge Of a qualified assistant
during the temporary absence Of such reg
istered apothecary.
Section IL. II any person hereafter en-
gage in or be found In charge or carrying
on business, or displays any drugs medi
cInes, drug store fittings or furnishings, or
any sign recognized as peculiar to drug
store to give the appearance of an apothe-
cary store, or claim to be or represent MIN
self to be an apothecary, contrary to the
provisions of this act, he shall upon In
dictment and conviction be subject
to penalty of fifty dollars per month
for the first ofense, and one hundred
dollars per month for each and every sub
sequent offense, whether for continuance in
said business or for engaging anew therein
In violation of the provisions of this act
The county attorney In each county upon
complaint made by any one of said commits
sioners shall prosecute all violations OF the
provisions of this act.
Section 13. The provisions Of this act
shall apply in the cases of women who shall
hereafter enter upon and carry on the bust
ness of apothecaries. This act shall not
apply In the case of physicians who prepare
and dispense their own medicines, nor to
the sale of non poisonous domestic remedies
and patent or proprietary preparations
usually sold by grocers and Others.
Section IA. Any person may enter upon
the business OF an apothecary without the
certificate required by tho foregoing act !;
provided, he does not personally do the du-
ties of an apothecary, but employs q duly
registered apothecary who has sole charge
of compouding, putting up and dispensing
medicines and drugs under the provisions
of this act.
| Section is. II any person engaged In
the business of an apothecary knowingly
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or compounding a written prescription Of
any physician different from those named
In the prescription, he shall upon convic-
ton thereof be fined not less than five dol
| lars nor more than one hundred dollars.
Section 16. Whoever fraudulently adul-
terates, for the purpose of sale. any drug
or medicine, sells any fraudulently
| adulterated drug or medicine, knowing the
same to be adulterated, shall be punished by
Imprisonment In a jail not exceeding one
year, or by a fine not exceeding four hun
bred dollars and such aduiterated drugs
and medicine shall be forfeited, and de-
stroyed under the direction of the court.
Section IT. Whoever CELLS arsenic. ar
senlous acid, atropIa or any of its salts,
choral hydrate, chloroforIn. cotton root and
| Its fluid extract, Fowler's solution. corrosive
sublimate, cyanide of potassium, Donoyan's
solution, ergot and Its fluid extract, lauda-
mum, NcMunn's elixir, morphia or any OF
its salts, sugar OF lead, oil of savin, oil OF
tansy, opium, Parsons yermin e1termina-
| tor phosphorus, prussic acid, rough on rats,
strychnia or any of Its salts, tartar emetic.
tircture of aconite, tincture Of belladonna,
| tincture of dlgitalis, tincture of nux voml-
ca, tlncture of veratrum vIride, crystals OF
carbollc acid or a strong eolution or car
bolic acid, without the written prescription
OF a physician, shall keep a record of such
sale, the name and quantity of the article
sold and the name aud residence of the per-
son or persons to whom 1t was delivered,
which record shall be made before the arti-
Gle is delivered and shall at all times be
open to inspection by the police authorities
and officers of cities and towns but no sale
of cocaine or It's salts shall be made except
to dentists or on the prescription Of ply
siclan. Whoever neglects to keep or re-
fuses to show to said officers such record
shall be punished by fine not exceeding fifty
dollars. Whoever sells any of the poison
GUS articles named In this section without
the written prescription of a physician,
shall afix to the bottle, box or wrapper
containing the article sold a label of red
paper, upon which shall be printed in large
letters the word poison and also the word
antidote,' and the name and place Of busl
ness of the yender. The name Of an anti
dote II there be any, for the poison sold,
Shall also be upon the label. Every neglect to
aflx such label to such poisonous article
sold before the delivery thereof to the pur-
chaser shall be punished by Gne not ex-
cceding fifty dollars Whoever purchases
poisons as aforesaid and gives a false or
! fictitious name to the vendor shall be pun
shed by n fine not exceeding fifty dollars
But nothing In this section shall be con-
strued TO apply 10 wholesale dealers or to
manufacturing chemists In their sales to
retail trade, nor to the general merchant
nor to a firm or corporation In trade, who
may sell In unbroken packages prepared by
the manufacturers Paris green, London pur
pie or other poisonous preparations or com
pounds used for the destruction OF bugs
beetles, insects, slugs. grubs. eaterpllars or
worms. Upon each and every package so
sold shall be printed in large letters the
word poison Every neglect to aflix such
label with the word poison thereon to such
poisonous article before the delivery there
Of to the purchaser shall be punished by fine
not exceeding fifty dollars
Section 10. All acts and parts of acts
inconsistent herewith, are hereby repealed
lApproyed Mar. 1G.l