The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1909-07-21
NOTICE CT ELECTION.
STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA,

ton will be held at Cne Young pre-
cincts prescribed by law in said county,
on Tuesday, August II, 1909, as pro-
vided in the following Act:
NO: ~.
AN ACT to prohibit the manufacture,
sale, barter, exchange. giving away
to induce trade. the furnishing at
public places or otherwise disposing
of alcohol, spirituous, vinous or malt
liquors or beverages, or other liquors
or beverages by whatsoever name
called, which if drunk to excess will
produce intoxication, except for sale
of alcohol in certain cases upon GER
tain conditions, and except the
sale of wines for sacramental pur-
poses, and to provide penalties
for the violation thereof.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the
General Assembly Of the State of
South Carolina, That all alcoholic
LIQUORS and beverages, whether manu-
factured within this State or else
where, or any mixture by whatsoever
name called, which if drunk to excess
will produce intoxication, are hereby
declared to be detrimental, and their
use and consumption to be against the
morals, good health and safety of the
State, and contraband. That it shall
be unlawful for any person, firm or
CORPORATION or association within this
State to manufacture, sell, barter, ex-
change, receive, accept, give away to
induce trade, deliver, store, keep in
possession in this State, furnish at pub
lie places or otherwise dispose of any
spirituous, malt, vinOus, fermented,
brewed or other liquors and beverages,
or any compound or mixture thereof
which contains alcohol and is used as
a beverage, and which if drunk to ex-
cess will produce intoxicatlon, except
as hereinafter provided.
Section 2. That wholesale druggists
may lawfully sell in wholesale quanti-
ties to retail druggists and to public
or charitable hospitals or to medical
or pharmaceutical college, and in no
other way, pure alcohol for medical
purposes only, or grain alcohol to be
used by chemists or bacteriologists
actually engaged in scientific work and
for such purposes only, and such
wholesale druggists shall at the end OF
each month in which any such sales
have been made, file with the clerk
of the court of the county in which
they do business, statement IN writ
ing under oath, giving the name OF
the purchaser, the price paid, the
date of sale, and the quantity and
character of the alcohol sold. That if
said wholesale druggist making such
sale is not resident Of the State OF
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shall be fled in the Office of the CLERK
of the court Of the county in which
the purchaser resides.
Section 8. That any retail druggist
whose place of business is located in
any of the incorporated towns or cities
of this State, who is himself a register.
ed or licensed pharmacist, or who
regularly employs a registered OF
or licensed pharmacist, may sell,
in the manner herein set out, upon
filing bond in the sum Of five thous'
and dollars, to be approved by the
clerk of the court, in which such drug
gist does business, conditioned for
faithful observance of the provisions
of this Act, such bond to be approved
by the clerk Of the court, pure alcohol
for medical purposes only, grain alco'
hol to chemists and psychologists ac.
tually engaged in scientific work, ano
for such purposes only and wine to be
used for sacramental or religious pur'
poses only: Provided, That nothing
herein contained shall prevent such
druggists from using alcohol in the
compounding of prescriptions or othel
medicines, the sale of which would
not subject him to the payment of q
special tax required Of liquor dealers
by the government of the United
States: Provided, further, That moth
ing herein contained shall prevent
such druggists from compounding OF
selling medicinal preparations manu-
featured in accordance with formulas
prescribed by the United States
Pharmacopaeia and National Formu
larry which contain no more alcoho
than is necessary to extract the medl'
| cinal properties of the drugs contain
ed in such preparations, and no more
| alcohol than is necessary to hold the
| medicinal agents in solution, ano
which are manufactured and sold as
medicine, and not as a beverage.
Section 4. That no sale of pure al.
cohol, for medicinal purposes, shall
be msde by any retail druggist, except
upon the prescription OF regular
practicing physician of this state, who
before writing such prescriptions,
shall make an actual examination OF
the person for whom the prescription
is issued, and the said prescription
shall be substantially in the following
form: estate of South Carolina.
......:. County. To.......;...:.
censed nss lar and practicing physician ; nnder
the laws of this State, do hereby GER
tify that have examined. ............
a patient in my charge, and do here
by prescribe for the use of said patient
.... alcohol, and I further certify,
that the use of such alcohol is, in my
judgement, absolutely necessary to
alleviate or cure the illness or disease
from which said patient is now suffer-
ing, and that I am not interested in
the drug store to which this prescrip-
ton is directed, nor in the profits on
the drugs herein prescribed. Dated
Section 5. That no prescription
shall be filed herein except upon the
day upon which it is issued or the fol-
lo1u;nu dav and no more than one