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tions 241-O and 241P, and to follow immediately after Sec-
tion 241N, permitting the administering or dispensing of
said substances by physicians, dentists and veterinarians to
bona fide patients, and prescribing a penalty for the viola-
tion of the provisions of the said sub-title.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 241M of Article 43 of Flack's 1935 Sup-
plement to the Annotated Code of the Public General Laws
of Maryland, title "Health, " sub-title "Barbital and Other
Hypnotic Drugs, " be, and the same is hereby, repealed and re-
enacted with amendments so as to read as follows:

241M. For the purposes of this sub-title, the term "barbital"
shall be held to mean and include, the salts of barbituric acid,
also known as malonylurea, or any derivative or compounds
or any preparations or mixtures thereof. And the term "other
hypnotic or somnifacient drug" shall be held to mean and in-
clude, sulphonethylmethane (Trional) or sulphonmethane
(Suiphonal) or diethyl-sulphone, diethyl-methane (Tetronal),
or paraldehyde or any derivatives or compounds or any prepa-
rations or mixtures thereof and chloral or chloral hydrate, or
chlorbutanol or any compounds or mixtures thereof when
such chloral or chloral hydrate or chlorbutanol or compounds
or mixtures thereof are to be used internally.

The provisions of this Section shall apply to any of the above
mentioned drugs, or any derivatives or compounds or any
preparations or mixtures thereof, as above set forth, whatever
may be the name under or by which the same may be called or
known.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That two new sections
be, and the same are hereby, added to Article 43 of Flack's
1935 Supplement to the Annotated Code of the Public General
Laws of Maryland, title "Health, " sub-title "Barbital and
Other Hypnotic Drugs, " said sections to follow immediately
after Section 241N, to be known as Sections 241-O and 241P
and to read as follows:

241-O. Nothing in this Act shall be deemed to prohibit the
administering or dispensing of ''barbital" or "other hypnotic
or somnifacient drugs, " as defined in this sub-title, in good
faith, by duly licensed physicians, dentists or veterinarians to
bona fide patients.

241P. Any person, partnership, association or corporation
violating any of the provisions of this sub-title shall, upon
conviction, be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and fined not
more than One Hundred Dollars ($100) for each offense.