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days, or be punished by both such fine and imprisonment for the first

offense, and by a fine of one hundred dollars or imprisonment for three

months, or both such fine and imprisonment for each subsequent offense.

This section prohibits the sale of condensed skimmed milk although the

same was not known when the act of 1900, ch. 532, was passed, and

although section 247 authorizes the sale of skimmed milk as such. Object

of section 246, et seq. Eeiter v. State, 109 Md. 236.

1904, art. 27, sec. 236. 1902, ch. 488, sec. 162A.

250. No person or persons shall hereafter, without the consent of
the owner or shipper, use, sell, dispose of, buy or traffic in any milk
cans, cream cans or cases belonging to any dealer or shipper of milk or
cream residing in the State of Maryland or elsewhere who may ship
milk or cream to any city, town or place within this State, having the
name or initials of the owners, dealers or shippers stamped, marked or
fastened on such cans, or wilfully change by re-marking or otherwise
said name or initials of any such owner, dealer or shipper so stamped,
marked or fastened upon such cans; nor shall any person, without the
consent of the owner, use such cans for any other purpose than for milk
or cream; nor shall any person or persons, without the consent of the
owner, place in any such cans any substance or product other than milk
or cream. Any person who shall violate any of the provisions of this
section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction
before a justice of the peace of the city or county wherein the offense
was committed, or in a court of competent jurisdiction, shall be fined
not more than fifty dollars and cost of prosecution; one-half of all fines
imposed shall be paid to the informer, and the other half of said fine
shall be paid to the board of school commissioners of the county or city
of Baltimore in which the offense shall be committed; and in default in
the payment of said fine shall be confined in the jail for a period not
less than thirty days nor more than sixty days.

Health—Narcotic Drugs.

Ibid. sec. 237. 1904, ch. 607, secs. 1-3. 1906, ch. 523. 1912, ch. 473.

251. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to fur-
nish, 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 good stand-
ing in his profession, not of intemperate habits or addicted to the use
of any drugs, and any person violating any of the provisions of this
section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof
shall be fined not more than one thousand dollars or be imprisoned in
the penitentiary of this State for not less than one year nor more than
five years or both in the discretion of the Court for each offense. Pro-
vided, that the above provisions shall not apply to paregoric, laudanum
or to bona fide proprietary medicines containing codeine of not more