The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1907-08-07
The Lexington Dispatch.
Wednesday, August ]. 1907.
Georgia Prohibition Law as
Passed BY House.

mani -Covington-Neel prohibition bill
reads as follows:
"An act to prohibit the mantfac-
ture, sale, barter, giving away to in
duce trade, or keeping or furnishing
at public places, or keeping on hand
at places of business of any alcoholic,
spirituous, malt or Intoxicating liq-
uors or Intoxicating bitters, or other
drinks, which if drunk to excess will
produce intoxication; to accept sales
of alcohol in certain cases, upon GER
tain conditions; to provide certain
rules of evidence in connection with
the enforcement hereof; to prescribe
penalties, and for other purposes.
Section 1. From and after the first
day of January next, after the pass
age of this act, it shall not be lawful
for any person within the limits Of
this State to sell or barter for consid-
Grafton, either directly or Indirectly,
or give away to induce trade at any
place of business, or keep or furnish
at any other places, or manufacture
or keep on hand at their place of bus
mess any alcoholic, spirituous, malt
or Intoxicating liquors, or intoxicat-
ing bitters, or other drinks, which, if
drunk to excess, will produce intoxi
cation, and any person so offending
shall be guilty Of misdemeanor, and
shall be punished as prescribed in
section 1899 of the penal code of Geor-
gia. Nor shall it be lawful in the linn
it's of said State for Intoxicating
liquors to be sold in dispensaries, and
the sale of intoxicating liquors in said
State shall be prohibited to private
persons and to the State, it's officers
and agents.
THE DocToR's AMENDMENT"
"ProYided, that licensed druggists
may sell and furnish pure alcohol, for
medical purposes only, upon written
prescription of regular practicing
physician of this State, in the manner
herein prescribed, to wit: Before any
physician shall issue any such pre-
scription he shall make an actual ex-
animation of the person for whom the
prescription is granted. The prescrip-
ton shall be substantially in the fol-
lowing form: Georgia. gia.............
county. I, ............, regular
practicing physician, under the laws
of said State, do hereby prescribe for
the use Of ............, a patent IN
my charge, whom I have personally
examined ........ . of pure alcohol, and
do certify in my opinion that the
same is necessary in the alleviation or
cure of illness from which said patient
is suffering. This (date.) (signed by
the physician.)' No prescription
shall be filed hereunder except upon
the day upon which it is dated and
issued, or upon the following day.
Within ten days after the same Is FILL,
ed by the druggist he shall file said
prescription for record with the or
binary of the county in which filled,
who shall cause the same to be re-
corded in his Office, and a certain
copy of the same, or the original pre-
scription showing it has been record
ed, shall be primary evidence in any
court in this State. The record con-
tanning such prescriptions shall be
open to public inspection. A record
ing fee of cents for each prescription
80 recorded shall be paid by such
druggist to the ordinary. Upon any
prosecution under this act the burden
of proving the defense that the sale
was of pure alcohol under prescription
as herein provided for, shall be upon
the defendant. Provided, further, no
druggist who is also a practicing ply
sician shall fill his own prescriptions
hereunder, nor shall they be filled at
any drug store in which said physi-
clan is financially interested, and no
prescription shall be reflled; nor shall
more than one pint be furnished on
any one prescription. The delivery
of the alcohol under such prescription
shall be made only directly to the
person for whom such prescription is
issued or to the physician; or in case
of minor, to his parent or guardian
for him; or in case of a married wo-
man, to her husband for her.
PROVISION FOR WHOLESALERS.
Provided, further, That nothing in
this act shall be so construed as to
prevent wholesale druggists from SELL
ing or furnishing alcohol in wholesale
quantities to regular licensed retail
druggists or to public or charity hos
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