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or delivered to any person, but the original shall at all times be open to
inspection by the prescriber, the State's Attorney for the county or Balti-
more City or committee of the Grand Jury of the county or of Baltimore
City in which said prescription was filled. Any person violating any of
the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon
conviction thereof shall be fined not less than twenty-five dollars nor more
than five hundred dollars, and may, in the discretion of the Court, be con-
fined in the county or city jail in addition to the said fine for a period of
not exceeding one year.

An. Code, sec. 254. 1904, sec. 237. 1904, ch. 607, secs. 1-3. 1906, ch. 523. 1912, ch. 473.

1922, ch. 495, sec. 254.

286. It shall be the duty under this Act of all judges of courts having
criminal jurisdiction in this State at every regular term thereof to charge
all regularly impannelled juries to diligently inquire into and investigate
all cases of the violation of the provisions of this sub-title, and to make a
true presentment of all' persons guilty of such violations. It shall be the
duty of the State Board of Health, as well as all prosecuting officers, to
cause the prosecution of all persons violating the provisions of this sub-
title.

All criminal proceedings pending or which may be hereafter instituted
for offenses already, committed shall be instituted, proceeded with and
prosecuted to final determination and judgment as if this Act had not
been passed.

An. Code, sec. 254A. 1916, ch. 411. 1916, ch. 593.

287. It shall not be unlawful to manufacture, buy, sell or deal in,
any medicinal, pharmaceutical, scientific, sacramental, mechanical, culi-
nary or toilet preparations which may contain such percentage of alcohol
as may be necessary to hold the constituents in solution, preserve the prep-
aration or keep it from freezing; provided, however, that no such prep-
aration shall be manufactured, bought, sold or dealt in, for use as a beverage
or intoxicant.1

See art. 43, secs. 183 and 240.

An. Code, sec. 255. 1914, ch. 794.

288. All tablets made of bichloride of mercury in sufficient quantity
to render said tablets strong enough for antiseptic purposes, each tablet
shall be triangular, diamond, square, oblong, or other irregular shape, and
the color of each and every one of said tablets shall be blue, green or pur-
ple, with the word " Poison " impressed or embossed upon it.

An. Code, sec. 256. 1914, ch. 794.

289. It shall be unlawful for any person or persons to sell, dispense or
give away bichloride of mercury in tablet form if said tablets contain more
than one-tenth of a grain of the said bichloride of mercury, unless tablets
are of the color and shape and marked as described in Section 288.

1 Sec. 2 of ch. 593 of the act of 1916 provides for the repeal of all laws in conflict with
said act, to extent of such conflict.
Chs. 411 and 593 of the acts of 1916 are identical.