Page:1864-65 Territory of Dakota Session Laws.pdf/139

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PENAL CODE.
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on vessels, materials or goods damaged, with the intent to avoid the provisions of the law, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

Sec. 445. Every apothecary, or druggist, and every person employed as clerk or salesman by an apothecary or druggist, or otherwise carrying on business as a dealer in drugs or medicines, who in putting up any drugs or medicines, willfully, negligently or ignorantly omits to label the same, or puts any untrue label, stamp or other designation of contents upon any box, bottle or other package containing any drugs or medicines or substitutes a different article for any article prescribed or ordered, or puts up a greater or less quantity of any article than that prescribed or ordered, or otherwise deviates from the terms of the prescription or order which ho undertakes to follow, in consequence of which human life or health is endangered, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

Sec. 446. Every apothecary or druggist, and every person employed as clerk or salesman, by any apothecary or druggist, or otherwise carrying on business as a dealer in drugs or medicines, who sells or gives any poison or poisonous substance, without first recording in a book to be kept for that purpose, the name and residence of the person receiving such poison, together with the kind and quantity of such poison received excepting upon the written order or prescription of some practising [sic] physician whose name is attached to such order, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

Sec. 447. Every person whose duty it is by the last section to keep any book for recording the sale or gift of poisons, and who willfully refuses to permit any person to inspect said book upon reasonable demand made during ordinary business hours, is punishable by fine not exceeding fifty dollars.

Sec. 448. Every person who sells, gives or disposes of any poison or poisonous substance, except upon the order or prescription of a regularly authorized practising [sic] physician, with out attaching to to the vial, box or parcel containing such poisonous substance, a label with the name of such person, the word "poison " and the name of such poison all written or printed thereon in plain and legible characters, is guilty of a misdemeanor.