examine, either by a schedule of questions, to be answered and subscribed to under oath, or orally, each and every person who shall desire to conduct the business of selling at retail, compounding, or dispensing drugs, medicines or chemicals for medicinal use, or compounding and dispensing physicians' prescriptions as pharmacists, and if a majority of said Commissioners shall be satisfied that said person is competent and fully qualified to conduct said business of compounding and dispensing drugs, medicines, or chemicals for medicinal use, or to compound and dispense physicians' prescriptions, they shall enter the name of such person as a registered pharmacist in the book provided for in section 4 of this act; and all graduates in pharmacy, having a diploma from an incorporated college or school of pharmacy, that requires a practical experience in pharmacy of not less than four years before granting a diploma, shall be entitled to have their names registered as pharmacists by said Commissioners of Pharmacy, without examination. SEC. 6. That the Commissioners of Pharmacy shall be entitled to demand and receive from each person whom they register and furnish a certificate as a registered pharmacist, without examination, the sum of two dollars; and from each and every person whom they examine orally, or whose answers to a schedule of questions are returned subscribed to under oath, the sum of five dollars, which shall be in full for all services. And in case the examination of said person shall prove defective and unsatisfactory, and his name not be registered, he shall be permitted to present himself for reexamination within any period not exceeding twelve months next thereafter, and no charge shall be made for such re-examination.

SEC. 7. Every registered pharmacist shall be held responsible for the quality of all drugs, chemicals, and medicines he may sell or dispense, with the exception of those sold in the original packages of the manufacturer, and also those known as "patent medicines "; and should he knowingly, intentionally, and fraudulently adulterate, or cause to be adulterated, such drugs, chemicals, or medical preparations, he shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof be liable to a penalty not exceeding one hundred dollars, and in addition thereto his name be stricken from the register.

SEC. 8. Apothecaries registered as herein provided shall have the right to keep and sell, under such restrictions as herein provided, all medicines and poisons authorized by the National, American, or United States Dispensatory and Pharmacopoeia as of recognized medicinal utility; Provided, "That all provisions of Chapter six (6), Title eleven (11), of the Code of 1873, and of any laws that may be hereafter made, amendatory or in addition thereto, regulating the sale of intoxicating liquors for mechanical, culinary, medicinal, or sacramental purposes, shall be applicable to persons selling liquor under this act, or the act to which this is amendatory; Provided, further, That any registered pharmacist who shall be convicted of any violation of said Chapter six (6), Title eleven (11), of the Code, or of Chapter 75, of the laws of the Eighteenth General Assembly, or any law hereafter made

amendatory thereto, shall have his name stricken from the register by the Commissioners of Pharmacy."

SEC. 9. It shall be unlawful for any person from and after the passage of this act, to retail any poisons enumerated in schedules "A" and "B," except as follows:

SCHEDULE A.

Arsenic and its preparations, corrosive sublimate, white precipitate, red precipitate, biniodide of mercury, cyanide of potassium, hydrocyanic acid, strychnia, and all other poisonous vegetables alkaloids, and their salts, essential oil of bitter almonds, opium and its preparations, except paregoric, and other preparations of opium containing less than two grains to the

ounce.

SCHEDULE B.

Aconite, belladonna, colchicum, conium, nux vomica, henbane, savin, ergot, cotton root, cantharides, creosote, digitals, and their pharmaceutical preparations, croton oil, chloroform, chloral hydrate, sulphate of zinc, mineral acids, carbolic acid, oxalic acid, without distinctly labeling the box, vessel or paper in which said poison is contained, and also the outside wrapper or cover, with the name of the article, the word "poison," and name and place of business of the seller. Nor shall it be lawful for any person to sell or deliver any poison enumerated in schedules "A" and "B" unless, upon due inquiry, it be found that the purchaser is aware of its poisonous character and represents that it is to be used for a legitimate purpose.

Nor shall

it be lawful for any registered pharmacist to sell any poisons included in schedule "A" without before delivering the same to the purchaser, causing an 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 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 prescriptions of practitioners of medicine. Nor shall it be lawful for any licensed or registered druggist or pharmacist to retail, or sell, or give away, any alcoholic liquors or compounds as a beverage, and any violations of the provisions of this section shall make the owner or principal of said store of pharmacy liable to a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars, nor more than one hundred dollars, to be collected in the usual manner; and, in addition thereto, for repeated violations of this section his name shall be stricken from the register.

SEC. 10. Any itinerant vender of any drug, nostrum, ointment, or appliance of any kind, intended for the treatment of diseases or injury, who shall, by writing or printing, or any other method, publicly profess to cure or treat diseases, or injury, or deformity, by any drug, rostrum, or manipulation, or other expedient, shall pay a license of one hundred dollars per annum, to be

paid to the treasurer of the Commission of Pharmacy, whereupon the secretary of said Commission shall issue such license for one year. Any person violating this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall, upon conviction, pay a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars. All moneys received for licenses to be paid to the Auditor of State. The sum of one thousand dollars per year, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated out of the moneys so received for licenses for the expenses of said commission, all exceeding said amount to be paid into the State Treasury.

SEC. 11. That any person who shall procure, or attempt to procure, registration for himself or another under this act, by making, or causing to be made, any false representation, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall, upon conviction thereof, be liable to a penalty of not less than twenty-five, nor more than one hundred dollars, and the name of the person so fraudulently registered shall be stricken from the register. Any person not a registered pharmacist, as provided for in this act, who shall conduct a store, pharmacy, or place for retailing, compounding, or dispensing drugs, medicines or chemicals, for medicinal use, or for compounding or dispensing physicians' prescriptions, or who shall take, use, or exhibit the title of registered pharmacist, shall be deemed guily of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, shall be liable to a penalty of not less than fifty dollars, nor more than two hundred dollars.

SEC. 12. This act shall not apply to physicians putting up their own prescriptions, nor to the sale of proprietary medicines manufactured in the State, when the same are sold and distributed by agents from an established place of business.

SEC. 13. This act being deemed of immediate importance, shall take effect from and after its publication in the Iowa State Register and Iowa State Leader, newspapers published at Des Moines, Iowa.

SEC. 14. All acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act are hereby repealed.

SEC. 4046. If any person carry on, or transact any business or occupation without license therefor when such license is required by any law of this State, he shall be fined in a sum not exceeding one hundred dollars, or imprisoned in the county jail not exceeding thirty days.-Code of 1873.

TO PREVENT ABORTION.

[Code of 1873, Sec. 3863, as amended by Chap. 19, Laws of 19th General Assembly.] If any person, with intent to produce the miscarriage of any pregnant woman, willfully administer to her any drug, or substance whatever, or with such intent use any instrument, or other means whatever, unless such miscarriage shall be necessary to save her life, he shall be imprisoned in the State prison for a term not exceeding five years, and be fined in a sum not exceeding one thousand dollars.(1)

DRAINS, DITCHES AND WATER-COURSES.

SECTION 1207. The board of supervisors of any county having a population of five thousand inhabitants, as shown by the last preceding census, may locate and cause to be constructed ditches or drains, or change the direction of any water-courses in such county, whenever the same will be conducive to the public health, convenience, or welfare.-Code of 1873. [This section was amended by the Seventeenth General Assembly, so as to authorize the drains to pass through two or more counties, and the appointment of commissioners from each county. The Eighteenth General Assembly further amended the law, providing that the work should be done under the supervision of a competent engineer.]

(1) To cause death by abortion is in this State murder, independent of as well as under the statute, though there was no intent to cause the death of the woman.

The crime of attempting to produce miscarriage of a pregnant woman, is complete if the attempt is made at any time during pregnancy.

The jurisdiction is with the county in which the medicine intended to produce the miscarriage was administered, and not in that where the miscarriage took place.-Decision of the Supreme Court.

LEGISLATIVE RECOMMENDATIONS.

Another biennial period of practical experience adds still more strongly to the recommendations made in the First Biennial Report of the State Board, and to the imperative necessity for changes. and amendments to chapter 151, Laws of the Eighteenth General Assembly.

The returns made to this office, from clerks of the District Courts, and the testimony of clerks, show that physicians and those who solemnize marriages, neglect to make the proper returns to the clerk of the courts. Under the provision of section five of said chapter, the clerk is authorized to make complaint for such neglect, but he must do so at his own cost. As the fines collected go into the county treasury, the county becomes the beneficiary of the recovery. law should be so amended as to require the county or district attorney to prosecute all such cases to a final hearing in the name of the State, on complaint of the clerk, and the penalty should be a fine instead of a recovery in a civil action.

Under the provisions of the same section physicians and midwives are required to register their names with the clerk of the courts, but no penalty is provided for a neglect so to do. To secure a better compliance with the object and intent of the law, a penalty should be provided which will tend to this end.

It is evident from reports received from other States adjoining Iowa, and from various sections in Iowa, that glanders is rapidly increasing. Wisdom and safety would dictate the absolute necessity for such legislation as will protect not only the animals, but the people, from this most horrible disease. The present statutes are wholly inadequate to afford protection or relief. While it is true, local boards of health have the power to take such measures as they