Bridgeton pioneer., 1912-02-15
STORES PROTEST
new DRUG BILL
Senate Bill No. rs Is Being
Criticized.
PHARMACY MEASURE.
Proposed Restrictions in the Patent
Medicine Trade Declared to Be
Useless Hardships.

Protests have been made by store
keepers handling patent and proprie-
tary medicines against the retention
in Senate bill No. rs of clauses that
will debar them from continuing the
sale of such articles. The bill was
introduced by Senator Colgate for the
State Board of Pharmacy for which,
he says, it was prepared.
Druggists look upon the measure as
simply regulatory. Storekeepers who
handle patent medicines profess to
see no value in the measure. They
say that the mere payment of license
fee of So will not make them any more
competent to sell medicines and that
only an additional hardship is put on
them.
The bill has been in the Senate COM
mittee on public health, of which Sen
ator Gaunt, of Gloucester County, is
chairman, since it's introduction, jan
pharmacy board will consult with
Senator Gaunt next Tuesday with the
purpose of helping him report it.
Objection is made to Section 13 and
to corollary in Section 20. The for
mer would require storekeepers to be
licensed by the State Board of Phar-
macy, and the latter defines the term
licensed storekeeper."
Section Is declares that it shall not
be lawful for any storekeeper in a
place "of more than 1000 inhabitants
or within three miles of pharmacy"
to offer or give away certain scheduled
poisons "or any patented or proprie-
tary medicine known to contain any
such ingredient"
The proprietor of any store "other
than a pharmacy who shall hereafter
sell or offer for sale any drug, medi-
cinal article. or patented or proprie-
tary remedy, must first procure from
the Board of Pharmacy of the State
of New Jersey a license as licensed
storekeeper in drugs"
The licensee must be at least twen-
ty-one years old, fgood moral char
acter, and, ''if the application is salts
factory to the board" the board may
issue license upon payment of fec
or $3."
The license shall be numbered and
dated, and in it shall be contained "a
schedule of such drugs and medicinal
preparations as shall be permitted to
be sold in original packages as put up
tered pharmacist or reputable manu-
facturer."
The license would have to be re-
newed in January of each year Auy
violation would be punishable by a
fine of $50 and costs.
Another section would require ped
dlers of any drug or medicinal prep
aration to obtain an 'itinerant ven
doris" license, at cost of $40 year
Provision is made that this shall not
apply to any agent, salesman or rep
resentative of a concern acting in the
Usual course of business.
In defining licensed storekeeper"
the bill says:
.0rrbo form, s1;nanCad Ctn-alyaoror.i
shall, for the purpose of this act,
mean person, other than pharma-
cist or assistant pharmacist, who is
licensed under this act to sell or fur
nish property medicines, iisiniectlnts
and Insecticides when sold in or:gi-
nal packages properly labelled, and
such drugs and domestic remedies and
household requisites containing drugs
as are specified in his license
Provision is made in Section % of
the bill that the act shall not apply
to the marketing of "non-poisonous
patent or proprietary incidence" nor
to the sale of simple non-poisonous
domestic remedies" by a licensed
storekeeper in drugs.
1t is pointed out that the license to
storekeepr would limit the variety
of patent medicines that could be sold
and would thus leave an effect upon
wholesalers and manufacturers.
Big department stores would not be
affected because they generally have