The Port Gibson reveille. [volume] (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-current, 1908-02-13
PROHIBITION BILL
Passed by the House of Repre-
sentatiyes Friday.

Legislature of the State of Missis-
sippi. That it shall be unlawful
for any person, firm, corporation
or association within this State to
manufacture, to sell, or barter, or
give away TO induce trade, or keep
for sale or barter, or to be given
away to induce trade, any vinous,
alcoholic, malt, intoxicating or
spurious liquors or Intoxicating
bitters or other drinks, which, II
drunk to excess, will produce IN
toxication, except as hereinafter
provided. But this section shall
not be construed to prohibit the
making of homemade wine for
domestic or household uses only.
Sec. 2. That any licensed retail
druggist in this State may sell IN
the manner herein set out pure al
cohol for medicinal purposes only;
grain alcohol to chemists and bac-
terlogists actually engaged in SCI
entifc work and for the purpose
of being used only in such work;
and wine to be used for sacramen-
Il
tai purposes only; provided that
wholesale druggists domiciled and
doing business In this State may
sell pure alcohol in quantities not
less than one gallon to licensed re-
tail druggist, and to licensed and
practicing physicians, and to pub
lie or charity hospitals, and to
medical or pharmaceutical col
leges; but all wholesale druggists
shall make and preserve for two
years after such sales a complete
record of sales of alcohol which
shall at all times be open for in
spection to any conservator of the
peace of the county; and provided
further, that nothing in this act
shall be construed to prohibit the
manufacture or sale of wood and
denatured alcohol for art, scientific
and mechanical purposes. A per
son shall not be deemed a licensed
druggist within the meaning of this
act by reason of being a licensed
physician or pharmacist.
Sec. 3. That no sale of pure al
cohol for medicinal purposes shall
be made except upon the written
prescription of a licensed and prac-
ticing physician of this State, who
before writing such prescription
shall have made an uctual exami-
nation of the patient for whom the
prescription is issued, which pre-
scriptiou shall be dated and signed
by the physician and shall be in
substantially the following form:
State of Mississippi, i,--county
l, , regular licensed and
practicing physician under the
laws of this State, do hereby GER
tify that l have examined -,
a patient in my charge, and here
by prescribe for the use of said
patient of pure alcohol,
and l certify that the use thereof
is necessary to alleviate or cure the
illness or disease from which such
patient is suffering. Dated -,
-, M. D. No prescription
shall be filled hereunder except
upon the day upon which it is is
sued or the following day, and no
more than half a pint of alcohol
shall be furnished on any one pre-
scription, and when each Prescrip-
ton is filled it shall not be rehlled
but shall be delivered to the drug
gist filling the same, and at the
end of the month in which the
same is filled shall be filed by such
druggist in the Office of the circuit
clerk of the county. In towns
having a population of 1000 or
more the physicians prescription
shall not be filled at any drugstore
of which he is the proprietor, or
in which he has a financial inter-
est, either as partner stockholder
or otherwise. Any person Pur-
chasing alcohol for any purpose
set out inthis act, for which a pre-
scription is nor required herein
shall first sign written or printed
statement properly dated and de-
liver the same to the druggist,
stating his name, residence and oc-
cupation, and the purpose for
which he intends to use said alco-
hol.