672 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [Ch. 473]

terms to be secured by the detention of the offender or by
recognizance entered into by or on his or her behalf, as said
magistrate of said Court may adjudge.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That all acts and parts of acts
inconsistent with this act be and they are hereby repealed.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect on
and after the first day of May, A. D. 1912.

Approved April 8, 1912.

CHAPTER 4Y2.

AN ACT to limit and fix the charges for telephone service in

Allegany county.

(Vetoed.)

CHAPTER 473.

AN ACT to repeal Chapter 607 of the Acts of the General
Assembly of Maryland of 1904; the same having been codi-
fied in the Code of 1904, as section 237 of Article 27, and to
re-enact the same with amendments, so as form four sec-
tions of said Article 27 of said Code, to be headed "Health,
Narcotic Drugs," and to be numbered 237, 237A, 237B and
237C, and to read as follows:

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Chapter 607 of the Acts of the General Assembly of
Maryland of 1904, the same having been codified in the Code
of 1904, as section 237 of Article 27, be and the same is hereby
repealed and re-enacted with amendments, so as to form four
sections of said Article 27, to be headed "Health-Narcotic
Drugs," and to be numbered 237, 237A, 237B, 237C, so as to
read as follows:

Health-Narcotic Drugs.

237. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corpora-
tion to furnish, sell, give away or otherwise dispense any
cocaine, encaine, opium, morphine, hereoine, chloral hydrate,
or any salts or compounds of any of the foregoing substances or
any preparation or compound containing any of the foregoing
substances or their salts or their compounds, except upon the
original written order or prescription of a lawfully authorized
practitioner of medicine, dentistry or veterinary medicine of