if he is the owner of the premises described in such forfeited license, no license shall be issued to be exercised on said premises for the residue of the term thereof.

CHAPTER 281, ACTS OF 1906.

AN ACT RELATIVE TO THE SALE OF INTOXICATING LIQUORS BY REGISTERED PHARMACISTS.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

SECTION 1. In any city or town in which licenses for the sale of intoxicating liquors of the first five classes are not granted, registered pharmacists to whom a certificate of fitness has been issued as provided for by section two of this act, may sell intoxicating liquors upon the prescription of a registered physician practising in such city or town, provided that the prescription is dated, contains the name of the person prescribed for, and is signed by the physician. All such prescriptions shall be retained and kept on file in a separate book by the pharmacist filling the same, and shall not be filled a second time. Such prescription book shall be open at all times to the inspection provided for in section twenty-seven of chapter one hundred of the Revised Laws.

SECTION 2 (as amended by chapter 261, Acts of 1909). The board of registration in pharmacy may, upon the payment by each applicant of fee of not more than five dollars, issue to registered pharmacists certificates of fitness as provided for in section twenty-three of said chapter one hundred. Such certificates of fitness shall be subject to suspension or revocation by the board of registration in pharmacy, or by the licensing authorities of such cities and towns.

SECTION 3. Whoever violates any provision of this act shall be punished by a fine of not less than fifty nor more than five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment for not less than one month nor more than six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment.

SECTION 4. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed. Approved April 14, 1906.

CHAPTER 213, REVISED LAWS.

OF CRIMES AGAINST THE PUBLIC HEALTH.

SECTION 2. Whoever sells arsenic (arsenious acid), atropia or any of its salts, chloral hydrate, chloroform, cotton root and its fluid extract, corrosive sublimate, cyanide of potassium, Don

ovan's solution, ergot and its fluid extract, Fowler's solution, laudanum, McMunn's elixir, morphia or any of its salts, oil of pennyroyal, oil of savin, oil of tansy, opium, Paris green, Parsons' vermin exterminator, phosphorus, prussic acid, “rough on rats ", strychnia or any of its salts, tartar emetic, tincture of aconite, tincture of belladonna, tincture of digitalis, tincture of nux vomica, tincture of veratrum viride, or carbolic acid, without the written prescription of a physician, shall affix to the bottle, box or wrapper containing the article sold a label of red paper upon which shall be printed in large black letters the name and place of business of the vendor and the words Poison and Antidote, and the label shall also contain the name of an antidote, if any, for the poison sold. He shall also keep a record of the name and quantity of the article sold and of the name and residence of the person or persons to whom it was delivered, which shall be made before the article is delivered and shall at all times be open to inspection by the officers of the district police and by the police authorities and officers of cities and towns; but no sale of cocaine or its salts shall be made except upon the prescription of a physician. Whoever neglects to affix such label to such bottle, box or wrapper before delivery thereof to the purchaser or whoever neglects to keep or refuses to show to said officers such record or whoever purchases any of said poisons and gives a false or fictitious name to the vendor shall be punished by a fine of not more than fifty dollars. The provisions of this section shall not apply to sales by wholesale dealers or manufacturing chemists to retail dealers, or to a general merchant who sells Paris green, London purple or other arsenical poisons in unbroken packages containing not less than onequarter of a pound, for the sole purpose of destroying potato bugs or other insects upon plants, vines or trees, except that he shall record each sale and label each package sold, as above provided.

CHAPTER 220, ACTS OF 1905.

AN ACT RELATIVE TO WOOD ALCOHOL.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

SECTION 1. Whoever, himself or by his servant or agent, or as the servant or agent of any other person, sells, exchanges or delivers any wood alcohol, otherwise known as methyl alcohol, shall affix to the vessel containing the same and shall deliver therewith a label bearing the words "Wood Alcohol, Poison ", in black letters of uncondensed Gothic type not less than onefourth of an inch in height. Whoever violates the provisions

of this section shall pay a fine of not less than fifty dollars nor more than two hundred dollars.

SECTION 2. Whoever, himself or by his servant or agent, or as the servant or agent of any other person, sells, exchanges or delivers, or has in his possession with intent to sell, exchange or deliver, any article of food or drink, or any drug intended for internal use, containing any wood alcohol, otherwise known as methyl alcohol, shall be punished by a fine of not less than two hundred dollars or by imprisonment for not more than thirty days, or by both such fine and imprisonment.

Approved March 27, 1905.

CHAPTER 259, ACTS OF 1907.

AN ACT RELATIVE TO THE LABELLING OF CERTAIN PATENT OR PROPRIETARY DRUGS AND FOODS.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

SECTION 1. Chapter three hundred and eighty-six of the acts of the year nineteen hundred and six is hereby amended by striking out section one and inserting in place thereof the following:-Section 1. Upon every package, bottle or other receptacle holding any proprietary or patent medicine, or any proprietary or patent food preparation, which contains alcohol, morphine, codeine, opium, heroin, chloroform, cannibis indica, chloral hydrate, or acetanilid, or any derivative or preparation of any such substances, shall be marked or inscribed a statement on the label of the quantity or proportion of each of said substances contained therein. The size of type in which the names of the above substances shall be printed on the labels as above, shall not be smaller than eight point (brevier) caps: provided, that in case the size of the package will not permit the use of eight point cap type the size of the type may be reduced proportionately. The provisions of section nineteen of chapter seventy-five of the Revised Laws, so far as they are consistent herewith, shall apply to the manner and form in which such statements shall be marked or inscribed.

SECTION 2. No dealer shall be prosecuted under the provisions of this act when he can establish a guaranty signed by the wholesaler, jobber or manufacturer residing in this Commonwealth, from whom he purchased such articles, to the effect that the same is not misbranded within the meaning of this act, designating it. Such guaranty, to afford protection, shall contain the name and address of the party or parties making the sale of such articles to such dealer; and in such case said party

or parties shall be amenable to the prosecutions, fines and other penalties which would attach, in due course, to the dealer under the provisions of this act.

SECTION 3. Section two of chapter three hundred and eightysix of the acts of the year nineteen hundred and six is hereby repealed.

SECTION 4. This act shall take effect on the first day of March in the year nineteen hundred and eight.

Approved March 29, 1907.

CHAPTER 307, Acts of 1908.

AN ACT TO PROHIBIT THE MANUFACTURE AND SALE OF COCAINE AND ARTICLES CONTAINING COCAINE.

SECTION 1. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to manufacture any so-called catarrh powder or catarrh cure, or any patent or proprietary preparation containing cocaine, or any of its salts, or alpha or beta eucaine, or any of their salts, or any synthetic substitute for the aforesaid.

SECTION 2 (as amended by chapter 375, Acts of 1909). It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to sell, exchange, deliver, expose for sale, give away or have in his possession or custody with intent to sell, exchange, deliver, or give away, in any street, way, square, park or other public place, or in any hotel, restaurant, apartment house, dwelling house, liquor saloon, barroom, public hall, place of amusement, or public building any cocaine or any of its salts, or any alpha or beta eucaine, or any of their salts, or any synthetic substitute for the aforesaid, or any preparation containing any of the same.

SECTION 3. It shall be unlawful for any pharmacist or other person employed or serving in a pharmacy, drug store or apothecary shop, to the proprietor of which a written notice has been sent by registered mail by an officer or employee of the state board of health stating that any patent or proprietary medicine or article, naming the same, contains cocaine or any of its salts, or any alpha or beta eucaine, or any of their salts, or any synthetic substitute for the aforesaid, thereafter to sell any such medicine or article.

SECTION 4 (as amended by chapter 375, Acts of 1909). It shall be unlawful for any person to sell, or to expose or offer for sale, or to give or exchange any cocaine or alpha or beta eucaine or any synthetic substitute of the aforesaid, or any preparation containing the same, or any salts or compounds

thereof, except upon the written prescription of a physician, dentist or veterinary surgeon registered under the laws of the commonwealth; the original of which prescription shall be retained by the druggist filling the same and shall not again be filled, and shall at all times be open to inspection by the officers of the state board of health and by the police authorities and officers of cities and towns.

CHAPTER 43, ACTS OF 1909.

AN ACT MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE SALARIES AND
EXPENSES OF THE BOARD OF REGISTRATION IN PHARMACY.
Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

SECTION 1. The sums hereinafter mentioned are appropriated, to be paid out of the treasury of the commonwealth from the ordinary revenue, for the salaries and expenses of the board of registration in pharmacy for the fiscal year ending on the thirtieth day of November, nineteen hundred and nine, to wit: —

For the salaries of the members of the board, thirty-one hundred dollars.

For travelling and other expenses of the members of the board, a sum not exceeding seventeen hundred and twenty-five dollars. For the salary and expenses of the agent of the board, a sum not exceeding twenty-four hundred dollars.

For a stenographer, witness fees and incidental and contingent expenses of the board, the same to include the printing of the annual report, a sum not exceeding seventeen hundred dollars. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage.

Approved February 5, 1909.