858 CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS. [ART. 27

cocaine, eucaine or morphine or other salts, and it shall be
unlawful for any practitioner of dentistry to prescribe any of
the foregoing substances for any person not under his treat-
ment in the regular line of his profession, or for any practitioner
of veterinary medicine to prescribe any of the foregoing sub-
stances 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 such substances as he may deem necessary for
the treatment of such habit. Any person who shall knowingly
violate any of the provisions of this section shall be deemed
guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction for the first
offense shall be fined not less than twenty-five dollars nor more
than fifty dollars, and upon conviction for a second offense
shall be fined not less than fifty dollars nor more than one
hundred dollars; and upon conviction for a third offense and
all subsequent offenses shall be fined not less than one hundred
dollars nor more than two hundred dollars, and shall be
imprisoned in jail for not more than six months; it shall be
the duty of the grand jury to make presentments for violation
of this section.

Health—Spitting on Cars.

1902, ch. 581, art. 43, sec. 38 A.

238. It shall be unlawful for any person to expectorate or
spit on the floors, sides, seats or platforms of any railroad or
railway passenger cars in this State, under a penalty of three
dollars and costs, one-half of said fine to go to the informer or
party arresting and furnishing the evidence upon which the
offender is convicted. And for the purposes of this section all
railroad or railway conductors and brakemen running on pas-
senger trains are empowered to arrest such offenders and take
them before the nearest justice of the peace at the next con-
venient stop of said train within this State for trial, and such
justices are given jurisdiction in the case. In default of pay-
ment of fine and costs any party so convicted shall be sentenced
to jail for not more than five days; provided, however, that
smoking cars in which cuspidors are not placed by the com-
pany operating the same shall be exempt from the operation of
this section.