BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1900-04-30
General Orders.
No. Sc

w hlCs, OaH Juan, April 1OCn, IJUU.
Upon the recommendation of the
Judicial Board, the following is he
reby ordered:
l. Paragraph XXXII Of General
Orders, No. 16O, series of 1899, the.
Sc Headquarters, shall be unders-
teOd as amplifled in the following
manner
"When, in consequence of death,
resignation or any other cause, the
Office of Municipal Judge, or that
of Substitute Municipal Judge, shall
become vacant, the Judicial Board
shall notify the Alcalde of the vac
ancy, and at the first meeting of the
Council after the receipt of the not
ificatiOn. a new appointment shall
be made in which only the Mayor
and a Majority of the respective
town council shall take part. The
person elected as Municipal Judge,
or as Substitute for the same office,
must have the qualifications preScri-
bed in Paragraph Nv ef this Order.
mo. 16O, series OF 1899, these head.
quarters.p
III. "The reasons for which Mum
icipal Judges and their substitutes
may resign THEN offices, shall be the
following
L. A sickness which would pro-
baby disable them for the discharge
of their duties during a period OF
more than SIX months.
2 A bona.fide change OF residen.
ce to another Municipality, which
must be duly supported by evidence.
No. 81.
Upon the recommendation of the
Superior Board of sHealth para
graphs 10, IL, and IL of General
Orders, No. 151, series of 1899,
Headquarters Department of Porto
Rico, are hereby revoked, and the
following substituted therefor
10. Paragraph 8, of Article IL,
of the Spanish tariff law in force
Immediately prior to the American
occupation of Puerto Rico prOhibi
ted the importation of "pharmaceu-
tical preparations or secret remedies
of unknown composition, or the for
mulas of which have not been pu-
blished"'- Aranceles de Aduanas,
Disposition Und6cima, Articulc 81.
with view to carrying ..out the
provisions of this former law, fit it is
hereby ordered that on and after
July 1st, 1900, all proprietary, pa
tent, or secret remedies sold in
Porto Rico, shall bear upon the
bottle, box, or package, a number
which shall correspond with.the mum
Der on duly attested formula, sta,
ting the constituents of the medici
ne or remedy, which formula must
be deposited in the archives of the
Superior Board of Health of Porto
Rico. A fee of twenty five 25 90
dollars shall be paid to the Superior
Board of Health of Porto Rico for
the registration of each formula de-
posted under the provisions of this
paragraph; which money, after de,
ducting the necessary expenses of
registration, will be turned into the
treasury and applied toward the sup
port of the laboratory of the Superior
Board of Health.
III. No pharmacist, not legally
qualified physician, shall prescribe
for the sick. Every bottle, box, or
package containing any medicine or
drug, must, when dispensed be la
belled with the name of the same, or
if dispensed on prescription, with
number of the prescription and the
name Of the physician who wrote it,
as well as that of the pharmacist who
compounded it. Pharmacists will
file all prescriptions dispensed by
them, and must not sell arsenic,
stryctnine, or their compounds, or
other drugs, commonly known as
deadly poisons. Before such sale
is made, the name of the drug and
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