Evening journal., 1915-01-26
Enforce NEW LAW
ON SALE OF DRUGS
Special Tax is Due TO be
Paid on March
lSt
MUST REGISTER
ALL PURCHASES

All physicians and druggists OF
any other person who produces I'M
ports, manufactures, compounds,
deals in, dispenscs. sells, distributes
or gives away opium or cocaine or
any derivativc thereof, in this city
or elsewhere in the United States
win be required TO pay a special
tax of 81 a year and keep record
of every sale, according to an an
nouncement made at the local in
ternal revenue Office today. Deputy
Collector Mooney has received notice
from the treasury department; AT
Washington to the effect that the tax
will be due on March /, next, and
already a number of applications have
been received from doctors ana
pharmacists for blanks on which 10
make their returns.
There is considerable interest being
taken i'm this city relative to the act
which is intended to regulate the
sale of drugs, either for medicinal
use or to satisfy the pangs of those
oflicted with the dope" habit. No
tico will be given through the local
ceved, and thereafter every sale OF
The drugs mentioned will have to be
recorded and kept on file for the in
spectiOn of the government oflcials.
Comics OF the act. received in this
city explain the manner 10 be adopt
cd in the payment of the special
TAX and the way in which the law is
10 be carried out. Only One-third
.F Hf nil t.a on
covering the period between the pass
age of the law and that date. On the
first day of each July. thereafter, the
yearly tax of 81 will be payable at the
internal revenue Office in each dis
trict.
The procedure to be followed in
the dispensation. sale or distribution
OF the drugs, is explained in short
as follows: Upon application iol
drugs to a physician or pharmacist
the applicant will be required TO sign
an order i'm duplicate which will Dt
kept on file and easily accessible b,
the person selling the drug for {
period of two years. These record.
arc for the inspection OF the govern
ment officials, who from time to TIM,
arc expected TO go through each dis
trict. No drugs are to be allowed
TO exchange hands without such rec
ora being. kept. The order will SHOW
the amount dispensed, the date an'
the name and address of the persol
receiving same
The commission of internal revenu
viii have the blanks on which the rcgi
-tration Is to be made prepared a. soo
as possible and will place them In th
hands of deputy collectors in the vaii
Gus districts, by whom they will .
distributed to those requiring them upo
application. The price of the blank
will not be more than 81 per hundred
the act states. The act also states tha
l. shall be unlawful for any person {
secure such blanks except in the pui
suit of his lawful business in the drug
or the practice OF his profession.
a penalty of fine and imprisonmcr
is provided 10y the act fur violations ,
the condolences of the registrations 7
other words, no physician. dcntis
pharmacist or other per ious allow,
bv law TO deal in such drugs will !
permitted 20 divulec the names of PEI
sons making such purchases except
duly qualified agents of the government
and thcu only when such officials haN
proper credentials.
Tho provisions of the act do not al
ply to the sale of medicines or rom'
dies containing no more than tv
grains of opium or no more than ON
fomth of grain of codcinc. II sha
be- unlawful for any person who ia
not paid the special tax by the lin
appointed to have ia his possession al
If the drugs covered IN the act
The act provides penalty Of 500
maximum fine or imprisonment Of III
more than five years. or both AZ Il
discretion of the court. for convict io
IT violators OF this law