1196 ARTICLE 27

Manufacturers and wholesalers shall keep records of all narcotic drugs
compounded, mixed, cultivated, grown, or by any other process produced
or prepared, and of all narcotic drugs received and disposed of by them,
in accordance with the provisions of this sub-title.

Pharmacists and pharmacy owners shall keep such records of narcotic
drugs as the Federal Government now requires, or may hereafter require.

The keeping of a record required by or under the Federal Narcotic
Law, shall constitute the only record required to be kept by every person
who purchases for resale or who sells narcotic drugs.

1935, ch. 59, sec. 285J.

340. Whenever a manufacturer sells or dispenses a narcotic drug and
whenever a wholesaler sells and dispenses a narcotic drug in a package
prepared by him, he shall securely affix to each package in which that
drug is contained a label showing in legible English the name and address
of the vendor and the quantity, kind and form of narcotic drug contained
therein. No person except a pharmacist for the purpose of filling a pre-
scription under this sub-title, shall alter, deface or remove any label so
affixed.

Whenever a pharmacist sells or dispenses any narcotic drug or¹ prescrip-
tion issued by a physician, dentist, or veterinarian, he shall affix to the
container in which such drug is sold or dispensed, a label showing his
own name, address, and registry number, or the name, address, and regis-
try number of the pharmacist or pharmacy owner for whom he is lawfully
acting; the name and address of the patient, or, if the patient is an animal,
the name and address of the owner of the animal and the species of the
animal; the name, address and registry number of the physician, dentist,
or veterinarian, by whom the prescription was written; and such direc-
tions as may be stated on the prescription. No person shall alter, deface
or remove any label so affixed as long as any of the original contents
remain.

1935, ch. 59, sec. 285K.

341. A person to whom or for whose use any narcotic drug has been
prescribed, sold or dispensed, by a physician, dentist, pharmacist or other
person authorized under the provisions of this sub-title; the owner of any
animal for which any such drug has been prescribed, sold, or dispensed
by a veterinarian may lawfully possess it only in the container in which
it was delivered to him by the person selling or dispensing the same.

1935, ch. 59, sec. 285L.

342. The provisions of this sub-title restricting the possession and
control of narcotic drugs shall not apply to common carriers or to ware-
housemen while engaged in lawfully transporting or storing such drugs, or
to any employee of the same acting within the scope of his employment;
or to public officers or employees in the performance of their official duties
requiring possession or control of narcotic drugs; or to temporary inci-
dental possession by employees or agents of persons lawfully entitled to
possession, or by persons whose possession is for the purpose of aiding
public officers in performing their official duties.

¹ Evidently a typographical error.