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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 586.

Unlawful to
retail certain
drugs with
out labeling
the word
Poison on the
box.

after the passage of this Act, to retail any of the following
poisons: Arsenic and its preparations, corrosive sublimate,
white precipitate, red precipitate, bincodide of mercury, cyanide
of potassium, hydrocyanic acid, strychnine and all other
poisonous vegetables, alkaloids and their salts, essential oil of
bitter almonds, opium and its preparations, aconite, belladonna,
colchicum, coninm nux vomica, herbane, savine, ergot, cotton-
root, cantharides, creosote, digitalis and their pharmaceutical
preparations, cotton oil, chloroform, chloral hydrate, sulphate
of zinc, mineral acids, carbolic acid and oxalic acid, without
distinctly labeling the box, vessel or paper in which the said
poison is contained, with the name of the article, the word
" Poison " and the name and the place of business of the
seller.

Name of
purchaser to
be entered
in book, etc.

SEC. 2. Nor shall it be lawful for any registered pharma-
cist, or other persons, to sell any of the poisons above
enumerated without causing any entry to be made in a book
kept for that purpose, stating the date of sale, the name and
address of the purchaser, the name of the poison sold, the
purpose for which it is represented by the purchaser to be
required, and the name of the dispenser, such a book to be
always open for inspection by the proper authorities, and to
be preserved for at least five years. The provisions of this
section shall not apply to the dispensing of poisons in not
unusual quantities or doses, upon the prescription of prac-
titioners of medicine. Any violation of the provisions of
these sections shall make the offender liable to a tine of not
less than five dollars and not more than one hundred dollars.
SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect
from the date of ite passage.
Approved April 11, 1902.

CHAPTER 587.
AN ACT to Incorporate "The East Baltimore Bank."

Body
corporate.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Richard Gwinn, Ormond Hammond, Peter
J. Campbell, James H. Preston, John Gill, Jr., John D.
Cronmiller. Stephen C. Little and Frederick Dallam, and the
subscribers to the stock of the corporation hereby created, and
their successors and assigns, be and they are hereby created a
body corporate by the name of "The East Baltimore Bank, "
and by that name shall have perpetual succession and shall be
competent to sue and be sued in any Court of Law or Equity
whatever; to have and use a common seal and to alter the
same at its pleasure; to make and adopt a constitution and