EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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preparation for use in the manufacture of such prepara-
tions; nor to sales to hospitals, colleges, scientific or public
institutions.
SEC. 2. It shall be unlawful for any practitioner of medi-

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cine, dentistry or veterinary medicine to furnish to or pre-
scribe for the use of any habitual user .of the same, any
cocaine, hereoin, alpha or beta eucaine, opium, morphine,
chloral hydrate, or any salt or compound of any of the
foregoing substances, or any preparation containing any of
the foregoing substances or their salts or compounds; and it
shall also be unlawful for any practitioner of dentistry to
prescribe any of the foregoing substances for any person not
under his treatment in the regular practice of his profession,
or for any practitioner of veterinary medicine to prescribe
any of the foregoing substances 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 furnishing or prescribing in
good faith for the use of any habitual user of narcotic drugs
who is under his professional care such substances as he
may deem necessary for their treatment, when such prescrip-
tions are not given or substances furnished for the purposes
of evading the provisions of this Act.
SEC. 3. Any person who shall violate any of the provisions
of this Act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon

Physicians'
prescriptions

conviction for the first offense shall be fined not less than
$25 nor more than $50, and upon conviction for a second
offense shall be fined not less than $50 nor more than $100,
and upon conviction of a subsequent offense shall be fined
not less $100 nor more than $200, and shall be imprisoned
in jail for not more than six months, and if a licensed phar-
macist, physician, dentist or veterinary surgeon his license
shall be revoked; half of the fines to go the Maryland Board
of Pharmacy for prosecuting this law. It shall be the duty
under this Act of all judges of the courts having criminal
jurisdiction in this State, at every regular term thereof, to
charge all regularly impaneled grand juries to diligently
inquire into and investigate all cases of the violations of the
provisions of this Act and to make a true presentment of all
persons guilty of such violations. It shall be the duty of
the Maryland Board of Pharmacy to cause the prosecution
of all persons violating the provisions of this Act. No

Penalty for
knowingly
violating the
law.