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a fee of five dollars; but if upon such examination a license shall be refused, said fee shall be refunded to said applicant, but if any such applicant shall make a new application and a license shall again be refused, said fee shall not in that case be refunded. Said Commissioners shall account semi-annually, on the first Tuesdays of December and June, with the Treasurer of the State, for the sums received by them for licenses, and shall be paid by the State at the time of such accounting the money necessarily expended by them for stationery and printing, and a sum not exceeding two hundred dollars per annum, to be expended by said Commissioners in the purchase of the necessary material and apparatus for the examination in practical laboratory work of applicants for licenses, and one hundred dollars per annum for clerical services, and compensation for their services at the rate of three hundred dollars per annum to each Commissioner; provided, that if the amount received by said Commissioners for said licenses shall not be sufficient to pay them said sums for services in full, such amount shall be apportioned, pro rata, among said Commissioners, and their charges for expenses for stationery and printing and for services shall be audited and approved in the proportion aforesaid by the Comptroller, who shall draw his order upon the Treasurer therefor.

CASES NOT COVERED BY PRECEDING SECTIONS.

Sec. 4729. Nothing contained in the preceding sections of this chapter shall prevent a practicing physician from compounding his own prescriptions, or prevent the sale of proprietary medicines, or prevent the sale of any drugs, medicines, or poisons at wholesale either to licensed pharmacists, or for use in manufactures or the arts, or prevent any person from becoming a partner in, or the proprietor of, a pharmacy conducted by a licensed pharmacist, or prevent any keeper of a country store from keeping for sale and selling such domestic remedies as are usually kept and sold in such stores; but such keeper shall not compound medicines, and medicinal preparations so kept and recognized by the United State dispensatory, shall be compounded by a licensed pharmacist and marked by his label.

PENALTY.

Sec. 4730. Every person who shall willfully violate any provision of the preceding sections of this chapter shall forfeit five dollars for each day that he shall continue such violation, one-half to him who shall prosecute to effect, and one-half to the town in which the offense is committed.

COMMISSIONERS MAY PROSECUTE AND REVOKE LICENSES.

Sec. 4731. Said Commissioners may examine into all cases of alleged abuse, fraud, and incompetence; cause the prosecution of all per

sons not complying with the provisions of this chapter, and suspend and revoke the registration of any person convicted of violating the same.

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Sec. 4732. Every person who shall knowingly adulterate, or cause any foreign or inert substance to be mixed with any drug or medicinal substance or preparation recognized by any pharmacopoeia, or employed in medicinal or medical practice, so as to weaken or destroy its medicinal effect, or shall sell such drug, compound, or preparation, knowing it to be so adulterated or mixed, shall be fined not less than ten nor more than one hundred dollars, and upon conviction all such adulterated or mixed articles in his possession may be seized upon a warrant issued by the court in which such conviction is had, and destroyed by the officer by whom such seizure shall be made.

CHAPTER LIV.

AN ACT CONCERNING THE SALE OF POISONS.

Section 1. Section 4733 of the General Statutes is hereby amended to read as follows: Every person who shall sell arsenic, strychnine, corrosive sublimate, prussic acid, or cyanide potassium, shall affix to the package sold by him a label plainly marked with his name, date of sale, and the word "Poison," and the name of the poison sold, and shall enter at the time of such sale on a book kept by him for that purpose the name of the purchaser, date of sale, name of poison, and the quantity sold, which book shall be kept open for public inspection, carefully preserved; and when he shall close his business, or remove from the town in which such business is carried on, or when said book shall be filled with such entries, it shall be deposited by him in the office of the Town Clerk of the town in which he may conduct his business; and any person who shall violate the preceding provisions of this section, or who, when purchasing any of the articles herein named, shall give a false or fictitious name to the vendor thereof, shall be fined not less than ten nor more than one hundred dollars.

Approved April 29, 1903.

CERTAIN DRUGS TO BE MARKED "POISON."

PENALTY.

Sec. 4734. Every person who shall sell any of the articles named in the schedule accompanying this section, marked Schedule A, except when prescribed by a practicing physician, or sold at wholesale to

licensed pharmacists, or for use in manufactures or the arts, shall label the bottle, box, or wrapper containing any such article, with a label upen which shall be plainly written or printed the word "poison," and any person violating the provisions of this section shall be fined one dollar.

Schedule A.

Acid carbolic, ammoniated mercury, acid muriatic, chloroform, acid nitric, tincture aconite, acid sulphuric, tincture belladonna, acid oxalic, tincture digitalis, creosote, tincture opium, extract belladonna, tincture veratrum viride, sugar of lead, morphine, croton oil, nux vomica, cobalt, extract nux vomica, oil bitter almonds, opium, oil tansy, cocculus indicus, aqua ammonia, red oxide mercury, gelsemium, paris green, rat dynamite, Rough on Rats, or any article similar to the last three.

JURISDICTION OF PROSECUTIONS.

Sec. 4735. Police courts and city courts having criminal jurisdiction where established, and justices of the peace in towns where such courts do not exist, shall hear and determine prosecutions for violations of the foregoing provisions of this chapter.

LICENSED PHARMACISTS EXEMPT FROM OPERATION OF LAW RELATING TO PRACTICE OF MEDICINE.

Chapter 274, General Statutes, relating to the practice of medicine, contains in Section 4719 this exception f pharmacists:

"The provisions of this chapter shall not apply to licensed pharmacists."

SALE OF COCAINE AND EUCAINE RESTRICTED.

CHAPTER CXXVII.

An Act concerning the sale of certain Narcotic Drugs.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:

Section 1. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to sell, furnish, or give away any cocaine, salts of cocaine, eucaine or its salts, or any preparation containing any cocaine, or salts of cocaine, or eucaine or its salts, except upon the original written order or prescription of a lawfully authorized practitioner of medicine or veterinary medicine, which order or prescription shall be dated, and shall contain the name of the person for whom prescribed, or, if ordered by a practitioner of veterinary medicine, shall state the kind of animal for which ordered, and shall be signed by the person giving the prescription or order; and such written order or prescription shall be permanently retained on file by the person, firm or corporation who shall compound or dispense the articles ordered or prescribed, and it shall not be recompounded or dispensed a second time except upon the written order of the

original prescriber; provided, however, that the provisions of this act shall not apply to sales at wholesale by jobbers, wholesalers, and manufacturers to retail druggists, nor to sales at retail by retail druggists to regular practitioners of medicine, dentistry, or veterinary medicine, nor to sales to hospitals, colleges, or scientific or public institutions.

Section 2. Every person who shall knowingly violate any of the provisions of this act shall be fined not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than fifty dollars. City, police, town and borough courts, having criminal jurisdiction where established, and justice of the peace, in towns where such courts do not exist shall have jurisdiction to hear and determine prosecution for violations of the provisions of this act and to impose penalties therefor.

Approved, June 7, 1905.

PURE FOOD LAW.

(Substitute for House Bill No. 746.)

CHAPTER 255.

An Act concerning the Manufacture, Sale, or Transportation of Adulterated, Misbranded, Poisonous, or Delecterious Foods, Drugs, or Liquors within this State.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened

SECTION I. It shall be unlawful for any person to manufacture, transport, sell, or offer for sale or transportation any article of food or drugs which is adulterated or misbranded within the meaning of this act. SEC. 2. The term "drug" as used in this act shall include all medicines and preparations recognized in the United States Pharmacopoeia or National Formulary for internal or external medicinal use and any substance or mixture of substances intended to be used for the cure, mitigation, or prevention of disease of either man or other animals. The term "food" as used herein shall include all articles, whether simple, mixed or compound, used for food, drink, confectionery, or condiment by man or animals.

SEC. 3. For the purposes of this act an article shall be deemed to be adulterated: In the case of drugs: First, if, when a drug is sold under or by a name recognized in the United States Pharmacopoeia or National Formulary, it differs from the standard of strength, quality or purity as determined by the test laid down in said United States Pharmacopoeia or indicated by the National Formulary official at the time of investigation; provided, that no drug defined in the United States Pharmacopoeia or National Formulary shall be deemed to be adulterated under this provision if the standard of strength, quality, or purity be plainly stated on the bottle, box, or other container thereof although the standard may differ from that determined by the test laid down in the United States Pharmacopoeia or indicated by the National Formulary: Second, if its strength or purity falls below the professed standard or quality under which it is sold. In the case of confectionery: If it contains terra alba, barytos, talc, chrome yellow, or other mineral substances or poisonous color or flavor, or other ingredients deleterious or detrimental to health, or any vinous, malt, or spirituous liquor or compound, or narcotic drugs. In the case of foods: First, if any substance has been mixed and packed with it so as to reduce or lower or injuriously affect its qualify or strength: Second, if any substance has been substituted wholly or in part for the

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