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distribute, deliver or have in their possession with intent to sell or expose for sale, give away, distribute or deliver any mixture, compound or other substance intended to be used in the preservation of any article of food or drink for human consumption, is hereby required to furnish to the Board of Health on its demand a sample of said mixture. compound or other substance intended to be used in the preservation of any article of food or drink for human consumption.

Sec. 2. Any person, company or corporation violating any of the provisions of this Ordinance shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined a sum not exceeding one hundred ($100) dollars nor less than twenty-five ($25) dollars, or by imprisonment in the County Jail for a term not exceeding one hundred (100) days nor less than thirty (30) days, or by both such fine and imprisonment.

Sec. 3. This Ordinance shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

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ORDINANCE NO. 637.

(Approved January 28, 1903.)

Prohibiting the Delivery or Depositing of Drugs,
Medicines, Antiseptics, Disinfectants and Cos-
metics, either for Internal or External Use,
Upon the Doorstep or Premises of Another.

Be it ordained by the People of the City and
County of San Francisco as follows:

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Section 1.

No person, firm or corporation, by him or themselves, his or their servant or agent, or as the servant or agent of any person, firm or corporation, shall leave, throw or deposit upon the doorstep or premises owned or occupied by another, or deliver to any child under fourteen years of age, any patent or proprietary medicine, or any preparation, pill, tablet, powder, cosmetic, disinfectant or antiseptic, or any drug or medicine that contains poison, or any ingredient that is deleterious to health, as a sample, or in any quantity whatever for the purpose of advertising.

Sec. 2. The term drug, medicine, patent or proprietary medicine, pill, tablet, powder, cosmetic, disinfectant or antiseptic used in this Ordinance shall include all remedies for internal or external use, either in package or bulk, simple, mixed or compounded.

Sec. 3. Any person, firm or corporation violating any of the provisions of this Ordinance shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined a sum not exceeding one hundred ($100) dollars, nor less than twentyfive ($25) dollars, or by imprisonment in the County Jail for a term not exceeding one hundred (100) days, nor less than thirty (30) days, or by both such fine and imprisonment.

Sec. 4.

This Ordinance shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

ORDINANCE NO. 797.

(Approved June 11, 1903.)

Prohibiting the Transportation on Public Streets of Uncovered Carcasses of Animals to be Used for Food.

Be it ordained by the People of the City and County of San Francisco as follows:

Section 1. It shall be unlawful for any person to transport any beef, mutton, veal, pork, or the carcass of any animal used for food, along any public street, unless it be so covered, or unless the vehicle in which it is transported be so constructed, as to entirely protect the meat from dust and dirt, and so that the same may not be exposed to view.

Sec. 2. Any person who shall violate any of the provisions of this Ordinance shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon the conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine not to exceed five hundred ($500) dollars, or by imprisonment in the County Jail for not more than six (6) months, or by both such fine and imprisonment.

Sec. 3. This Ordinance shall take effect and be in force immediately.

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ORDINANCE NO. 24.

(New Series.)

(Approved June 30, 1906.)

An Ordinance to Provide Against the Evils Resulting from the Traffic in Certain Narcotic Drugs, and to Regulate the Sale Thereof; Providing for the Enforcement Thereof; and Penalties for the Violation Thereof.

Be it ordained by the People of the City and County of San Francisco:

Section 1. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, association or corporation to sell, furnish or give away any cocaine, alpha or beta-eucaine, opium, morphine, herion, chloral hydrate or any salt or compound of any of the foregoing substances or any preparation or compound containing any of the foregoing substances, or their salts or compounds, except upon the original written order or prescription of a person duly authorized by law to practice medicine, dentistry or veterinary medicine within the State of California, which order or prescription shall be dated and shall contain the name of the person for whom prescribed, or if ordered by a practitioner of veterinary medicine shall state the kind of animal for which ordered, and shall be signed by the person giving the prescription or order. Such written order or prescription shall be permanently retained on file by the person, firm or corporation which shall compound or dispense the articles ordered or prescribed, and it shall not be again compounded or dispensed, except upon the written order of the

original prescriber for each and every subsequent compounding or dispensing. No copy or duplicate of such written order or prescription shall be made or delivered to any person, but the original shall at all times be open to inspection by the prescriber and properly authorized officers of the law.

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Provided, however, that shall not apply to preparations the above provisions more than two grains of opium or not more than containing not one-fourth grain of morphine, or not more than one-fourth grain of herion, or not more than oneeighth grain of cocaine, or not more than oneeighth grain of alphamore than ten grains of chloral hydrate, in one or beta-eucaine, or not fluid ounce, or if a solid preparation, in one avoirdupois ounce. visions shall not apply to liniments or ointments Provided, also, that the above prowhen plainly labeled "for external use only." And provided, further, that the above provisions shall not apply to sales at wholesale by jobbers, wholesalers and manufacturers to retail druggists or certified physicians, or to each other, nor to sales at retail by retail druggists to certified practitioners of medicine, dentistry or veterinary medicine, nor to sales made to or by manufacturers of proprietary or pharmaceutical preparations or to dealers for re-sale or for use in the manufacture of such preparations, nor to sales scientific or public institutions. to hospitals, colleges,

Sec. 2.

It shall be unlawful for any practitioner of medicine, dentistry or veterinary medicine to furnish or to prescribe for the use of any habitual user of the same any cocaine, heroin, alpha- or

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