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1089. Duel Defined-A duel is any combat with deadly weapon fought between two persons by agreement. (2354 R. L. 1910)

Jurisdiction in. See sec. 490.

1090. Punishment-Any person guilty of fighting any duel, although no death or wound ensues is punishable by imprisonment in the penitentiary not exceeding ten years. (2355 R. L. 1910)

1091. Convicted Cannot Hold Office Any person convicted of fighting a duel is thereafter incapable of holding or being elected or appointed to any office, place or post of trust or emolument, civil or military, under this State. (2356 R. L. 1910)

1092. Seconds, Aids and Surgeons-Any person who is present at the time when any duel is fought, either as second, aid or surgeon, or who advises or gives any countenance to any duel, is punishable by imprisonment in the penitentiary not exceeding seven years. (2357 R. L. 1910)

1093. Sending Challenges-Any person who challenges another to fight a duel; every person who accepts any such challenge; and every person who knowingly forwards, carries or delivers any such challenge is punishable by imprisonment in the penitentiary not exceeding seven years. (2358 R. L. 1910)

1094. Challenge Defined-Any words spoken or written or any sign uttered or made to any person, expressing or implying or intended to express or imply desire request, invitation or demand, to fight a duel, or to meet for the purpose of fighting a duel, are deemed a challenge. (2359 R. L. 1910)

1095. Attempt to Induce Challenge-Any person guilty of sending, uttering or making to another any words or signs

whatever, with intent to provoke or induce such person to give or receive any challenge to fight a duel is guilty of a misdemeanor. (2360 R. L. 1910)

1096. Posting Persons-Any person who posts or publishes another for not fighting a duel, or for not sending or accepting a challenge to fight a duel, or who uses reproachful or contemptuous language, verbal, written or printed, to or concerning another for not sending or accepting a challenge to fight a duel, or with intent to provoke a duel, is guilty of a misdemeanor. (2361 R. L. 1910)

1097. Leaving State to Evade Laws-Any person who leaves this State with intent to elude any of the provisions of this article, and to commit any act out of this State, such as is prohibited by this article, and who does any act although out of this State, which would be punishable by said provisions, if committed within this State, is punishable in the same manner as he would have been in case such act have been committed within this State. (2362 R. L. 1910)

1098. Privilege of Witness-No person shall be excused from testifying or answering any question upon any investigation or trial for a violation of any of the provisions of this article upon grounds that his testimony might tend to convict him of crime. But no evidence given upon any examination of a person so testifying shall be received against him in any criminal prosecution or proceeding except in a prosecution against him for perjury committed in giving such testimony. (2363 R. L. 1910)

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1099. Using Title of Pharmacist—Any person who shall unlawfully and without authority take, use or exhibit the title of a registered pharmacist or assistant in the State of Oklahoma shall be liable to a fine of one hundred dollars for each offense; a like penalty shall attach to any assistant pharmacist who shall, without authority, take, use or exhibit the title of a registered pharmacist in the State of Oklahoma. (6839 R. L. 1910)

1100. Language to Be Used in Prescriptions-No practicing physician or surgeon shall write or cause to be written any prescription or recipe in any characters, figures or ciphers other than in the English or Latin languages, generally in use among medical practitioners; and for every violation hereof the offender shall forfeit not less than five nor more than twenty-five dollars. (6848, R. L. 1910)

1101. Sale of Poisons-It shall be unlawful for any person to retail any of the following poisons: Arsenic and its preparations, corrosive sublimate, white precipitate, red precipitate, biniodide of mercury, cyanide potassium, hydrocyanic acid, strychnine and all other poisonous vegetable alkaloids, and their salts, essential oil of bitter almonds, opium and its preparations, except paregoric and other arations of opium containing less than two grains to the ounce, aconite, belladonna, colchicum, conium, nuxvomica, henbane, savin, ergot, cotton root, cantharides, creosote, digitalis, and their pharmaceutical preparations, croton oil, chloroform, chloral hydrate, sulphate of zinc, mineral acids, carbolic acid and oxalic acid, without distinctly labeling the box, vessel or paper in which the said poison is contained, with

the name of the article, the word "poison," and the name and the place of business of the seller. Nor shall it be lawful for any registered pharmacist, or other person, to sell any of the poisons above enumerated, without causing an entry to be made in a book kept for that purpose, before delivering the same to the purchaser stating the date of sale, the name and address of the purchaser, the name of the poison sold, the purpose for which it is represented by the purchaser to be required, and the name of the dispenser; such a book to be always open for inspection by the proper authorities, and to be preserved for at least five years. The provisions of this section shall not apply to the dispensing of poisons in not unusual quantities or doses; upon the prescription of practition-. ers of medicine. Any violation of the provisions of this section shall make the offender liable to a fine of not less than twentyfive dollars and not more than one hundred dollars, and upon conviction for the second offense, in addition to the fine, he shall have his name stricken from the register. (6842 R. L: 1910)

1102. Prescriptions Required for Certain Drugs-It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to sell, furnish or give away any cocaine, alpha or beta eucaine, opium, morphine, codeine, heroin, or any salt or compound of any of said substances, or their salts or compounds, except upon the original written order or prescription of a lawfully authorized practitioner of medicine, dentistry 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; such written order or prescription shall be permanently retained on file by the person, firm or corporation, who shall compound or dispense the article ordered or prescribed, and it shall not be again compounded or dispensed except upon the written order of the original prescriber for each and every subsequent compounding or dispensing. No copy or duplicate of such order or prescription shall be made or delivered to any person, but the original shall at all times be open to inspection by the prescriber and properly authorized officer of the law: Provided, however, that the above provisions

shall not apply to preparations containing opium, morphine, codeine, heroin, or any salt or compound of the foregoing substances, and recommended and sold in good faith; each bottle or package which is accompanied by specific directions for use, nor to powder of ipecac and opium, commonly known as Dover's powder, nor to liniments or ointments when plainly labeled "for external use only"; provided, further, that the above provisions shall not apply to the sales at wholesale by jobbers, wholesalers and manufacturers to retail druggists or qualified physicians or to each other, nor to the sales at retail by retail druggists, to regular practitioners of medicine or dentistry, nor the sales made to manufacturers of proprietary or pharmaceutical preperations for use in the manufacture of such preparations nor to sales to hospitals, colleges, scientific or public institutions; and, provided, further that all prescriptions mentioned in this act (section) must be filled by legally registered pharmacists of the State of Oklahoma. (6843 R. L. 1910)

1103. Restrictions Upon Prescriptions-It shall be unlawful for any practitioner of medicine, dentistry or veterinary medicine to prescribe for the use of any habitual user of the same any cocaine, heroin, alpha or beta, eucaine, opium, morphine, or any salt or compound of any of the foregoing substances, or any preparation containing any of the foregoing substances, or their salts or compounds; and it shall also be unlawful for any practitioner of dentistry to prescribe any of the foregoing substances for any person not under his treatment in the regular practice of his profession, or for any practitioner of veterinary medicine to prescribe any of the foregoing substances for the use of any human being: Provided, however, that the provisions of this section shall not be construed to prevent any lawfully authorized practitioner of medicine from prescribing in good faith for the use of any habitual user of narcotic drugs who is under his professional care, such substances as he may deem necessary for their treatment, when such prescriptions are not given for the purpose of evading the provisions of this act. (6844 R. L. 1910)

1104. Penalty for Violation-Any person, officer, representative, agent or employee of any firm, association or corporation violating any of the provisions of this act (sections 1102 and 1103) shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and for the

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