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charge of the same a registered pharmacist, and that nothing herein contained shall apply to or in any manner interfere with the practice of any physician or prevent him from supplying to his patients such articles as may seem to him proper, or with the exclusive wholesale business of any wholesale druggist: Provided, further, that nothing contained in this Act shall apply to the sale of patent or proprietary preparations and remedies which do not contain opium or coca leaves, or any compound, manufacture, salt, derivative or preparations thereof when sold in original and unbroken packages only.

§ 12. No person shall sell at retail any drug, medicine or poison without affixing to the box, bottle, vessel, or package containing the same a label bearing the name of the article distinctly shown, with the name and place of business of the registered pharmacist from whom the article was obtained: Provided, that nothing contained in this section shall apply to the sale of patent or proprietary preparations and remedies which do not contain opium or coca leaves, or any compound, manufacture, salt, derivative or preparation thereof, when sold in original and unbroken packages only, or to the dispensing of prescriptions of licensed physicians, licensed dentists, or licensed veterinarians, or with the sale of paris green or lead arsenate, or other poisonous substances or mixtures of poisonous substances, in unbroken packages, for use in the arts or for insecticide purposes: Provided, they bear a label with the name, or names, of such poisonous substances and the word "poison" printed thereon in prominent type and the names of at least two readily obtainable antidotes with directions for their administration.

Every proprietor or manager of a drug store or pharmacy shall keep in his place of business a suitable book or file, in which shall be preserved for a period of not less than two years, the original of every prescription compounded or dispensed at such store or pharmacy, numbering, dating and filing them in the order in which they were compounded, and shall produce the same in court or before any grand jury whenever thereto lawfully required. Said book or file of original prescriptions shall at all times be open for inspection by the prescriber, the Board of Pharmacy and all officers of the law. Any person failing to comply with the requirements of this section shall be liable to a penalty of twenty dollars for every such violation.

§ 13. Any person who shall wilfully make any false representation to procure registration for himself or any other person, or who shall make false representation as to his registration as an apprentice, assistant pharmacist or registered pharmacist, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction shall be fined not less than fifty dollars or more than one hundred dollars for every such offense.

§ 14a. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to sell, barter, exchange, distribute or give away any opium or coca leaves, or any compound, manufacture, salt, derivative or preparation thereof, excepting in pursuance of the written prescription of a licensed physician, licensed dentist or licensed veterinarian who is registered with the United States Collector of Internal Revenue in the district in which he resides, in accordance with the provisions of an Act of Congress entitled: "An Act to provide for the registration of, with collectors of internal revenue, and to impose a special tax upon all persons who produce,

import, manufacture, compound, deal in, dispense, sell, distribute, or give away opium or coca leaves, their salts, derivatives, or preparations, and for other purposes," approved December 17, 1914; said prescription shall contain the name and address of the person for whom prescribed (or if prescribed by a veterinarian, shall state the kind of animal for which prescribed and the name of the owner thereof), shall be dated as of the day it is signed, and shall also be dated as of the day it is filled, shall not be altered or changed by any person except the physician, dentist or veterinarian by whom it is signed, and shall be retained on file by the person, firm or corporation by whom the same is filled for a period of not less than two years and it shall be filled but once, and of it no copy shall be made by any person except for the purpose of record by the physician, dentist or veterinarian by whom it is signed, or by the Board of Pharmacy and officers of the law, and it shall at all times be open to the inspection of the prescriber, the Board of Pharmacy and all officers of the law.

Nothing contained in this section shall apply:

(a) To the dispensing or distribution of any of the substances mentioned in this section to a patient by a licensed physician, licensed dentist, or licensed veterinarian, who is registered under the Act of Congress herein mentioned, in the course of his professional practice only: Provided, that such physician, dentist or veterinarian shall keep a record of all such drugs dispensed or distributed, showing the amount dispensed or distributed, the date, and the name and address of the patient to whom such substances are dispensed or distributed (if a veterinarian, the kind of animal for which such substances are dispensed or distributed and the name of the owner thereof), except such as may be dispensed or distributed to a patient upon whom such physician, dentist or veterinarian shall personally attend; and such record shall be kept for a period of two years from the date of dispensing or distributing such substances, subject to inspection by the Board of Pharmacy and all officers of the law. The making of any record required by any other law of this State, or of the United States, which record shall set forth the facts above required to be stated shall be deemed sufficient compliance with the provisions of this section.

(b) To sales made by a manufacturer of any of the drugs mentioned, or a wholesale dealer in drugs, or a retail druggist, to other such manufacturers, wholesale dealers in drugs, or retail druggists; or to sales made to manufacturers of medicinal preparations for use in such preparations only, or to sales made to hospitals, colleges, scientific or public institutions, or to licensed physicians, licensed dentists or licensed veterinarians, in accordance with the provisions of the Act of Congress herein mentioned.

(c) To the sale, distribution, giving away or dispensing by persons registered under the provisions of the Act of Congress herein mentioned, of preparations and remedies which do not contain more than two grains of opium, or more than one-fourth grain of morphine, or more. than one-eighth grain of heroin, or more than one grain of codeine, or any salt or derivative of any of them in one fluid ounce, or if a solid or semi-solid preparation in one avoirdupois ounce; or to liniments, ointments or other preparations which are prepared for external use only,

except liniments, ointments and other preparations which contain cocaine or any of its salts, or alpha or beta eucaine, or any of their salts: Provided, that all such preparations shall contain other active drugs in sufficient proportions to confer upon them other and additional medicinal properties than those possessed by the unmixed drugs, salts or alkaloids specified in this section: And Provided, further, that all such drugs, preparations or mixtures are sold, dispensed or distributed for use as medicines, and not for the purpose of evading the intentions of this section.

(d) To the sale of decocainized coca leaves or preparations made therefrom, or to other preparations of cocoa leaves which do not contain cocaine, or to constituents or derivatives of opium or coca leaves or to synthetic substitutes therefor, which do not possess narcotic or habitforming properties. It shall be unlawful for any person to falsely assume or use the title licensed physician, licensed dentist or licensed veterinarian or to falsely assume or use any other professional title or degree or abbreviation thereof, or for any person to falsely represent himself to be a manufacturer of drugs and medicines, wholesale dealer in drugs or retail druggist, for the purpose of obtaining any of the substances specified in this section.

§ 14b. It shall be unlawful for any licensed physician or licensed dentist, or other person, to furnish or prescribe for the use of any habitual user any of the substances mentioned in section 14a of this Act, or for any licensed dentist to furnish or prescribe any of the said substances for the use of any person not under his immediate treatment as a dentist, or for any other purpose than as a part of such treatment, or for any veterinarian to prescribe or furnish any of the said substances for the use of any human being. The provisions of this section shall not be construed to prevent any licensed physician from prescribing for the use of any patient under his care for the treatment of a drug habit, or dispensing to such patient, such substances as he may deem necessary for such treatment: Provided, that such prescriptions and treatment are given in good faith, and not for the purpose of evading the intentions of this Act: And Provided, further, that such physician shall keep a record in a suitable book of all such drugs so prescribed, dispensed or given, showing in each instance the amount so prescribed, dispensed or given, the date when and the name and address of the patient for or to whom such drugs are so prescribed, dispensed or given, which record shall be preserved for a period of two years from the date of such prescribing, dispensing or giving, in such a manner as to be readily accessible to inspection by the Board of Pharmacy and all officers of the law.

§ 14c. Any person, firm or corporation violating any of the provisions of the foregoing sections 14a and 14b, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and for the first offense shall be fined not more than one thousand ($1,000) dollars, or imprisoned in the county jail not more than one year, or both, and for each succeeding offense fined not less than two hundred ($200) dollars nor more than one thousand ($1,000) dollars, or imprisoned not less than three months nor more than twelve months in the county jail, or both, and if the person so offending shall

have a license or certificate as a physician, dentist, pharmacist, or veterinarian, such license or certificate may be suspended or revoked by the board or officer of the State duly empowered to issue such license or certificate, after a fair hearing held upon a reasonable notice. Prosecutions for the violation of the foregoing sections 13, 14a and 14b shall be carried on in the same manner as for violations of the criminal code, and all fines collected in prosecutions shall inure to the Board of Pharmacy: Provided, that a person, firm or corporation authorized by law to compound and dispense physicians' prescriptions shall not be held liable for the innocent compounding and dispensing of any of the substances specified in section 14a of this Act, in consequence of a false, fraudulent or forged prescription, which he, in good faith, believed to be the prescription of a licensed physician, licensed dentist or licensed veterinarian, issued for a lawful purpose: And Provided, further, that suits for the recovery of the penalties prescribed in the other sections of this Act shall be prosecuted as provided in section 15.

APPROVED June 23d, 1915.

PRACTICE OF MEDICINE-ACT OF 1899 AMENDED.

§ 1. Amends Act of 1899 by adding section 6a.

(HOUSE BILL No. 477.

§ 6a. Power to revoke certificates. APPROVED June 23, 1915.)

AN ACT to amend an Act entitled, "An Act to regulate the practice of medicine in the State of Illinois, and to repeal an Act therein named," approved April 24, 1899, in force July 1, 1899, as amended by subsequent Acts by adding an additional section thereto to be known as section 6a.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That an Act entitled, "An Act to regulate the practice of medicine in the State of Illinois, and to repeal an Act therein named," approved April 24, 1899, in force July 1, 1899, as amended by subsequent Acts, be and the same is hereby amended by adding an additional section thereto to be known as section 6a, which said section shall read as follows:

6a. The State Board of Health shall have power to revoke, for the cause set forth in section six (6) of this Act, not only the certificates provided for in this Act, but also the certificates to practice medicine issued in pursuance of and under the provisions of "An Act to regulate the practice of medicine in the State of Illinois;" approved May 29, 1877, in force July 1, 1877, and "An Act to regulate the practice of medicine in the State of Illinois;" approved June 16, 1887, in force July 1, 1887: Provided, that no certificates shall be revoked until the holder thereof shall be given a hearing before the board.

APPROVED June 23d, 1915.

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AN ACT to amend sections 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 15, 21 and 25 of an Act entitled, "An Act to revise the laws in relation to coal mines and subjects relating thereto, and providing for the health and safety of persons employed therein," approved June 6, 1911, in force July 1, 1911, approved June 26th, 1913, in force July 1, 1913.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That sections 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 15, 21 and 25 of an Act entitled, "An Act to revise the laws in relation to coal mines and subjects relating thereto, and providing for the health and safety of persons employed therein," approved June 6, 1911, in force July 1, 1911, approved June 26, 1913, in force July 1, 1913, be and the same are hereby amended so as to read as follows:

§ 2. CREDENTIALS.] (a) An applicant for any certificate herein. provided for, before being examined, shall register his name with the

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