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 52 STAT.] 75rH CONG. , 3D SESS.-CH. 532-JUNE 20, 1938 (r) "Registry number" means the number assigned to each person registered under the Federal narcotic laws. (s) "Board of Pharmacy" means the Board of Pharmacy of the District of Columbia as provided by Act of Congress approved May 7, 1906, as amended (D. C . Code of 1929, title 20, part. 3, sec. 198). AcTs PROHIBITED SEC. 2. It shall be unlawful for any person to manufacture, possess, have under his control, sell, prescribe, administer, dispense, or com- pound any narcotic drug, except as authorized in this Act. MANUFACTURERS AND WHOLESATFMRS SEC. 3. No person shall manufacture, compound, mix, cultivate, grow, or by any other process produce or prepare narcotic drugs, and no person as a wholesaler shall supply the same, without having first obtained a license so to do from the Board of Pharmacy. Licenses shall be issued for a period of one year and may be renewed for a like period. A fee of $10 shall be paid to the Board of Pharmacy for any license so issued or renewed. The said Board of Pharmacy is authorized to have printed such licenses as may be necessary and to be paid for out of the money collected by it for the issuance of licenses. At the close of each fiscal year any funds unexpended in excess of the sum of $100 shall be paid into the Treasury of the United States to the credit of the District of Columbia. QUALIFICATIONS FOR LICENSES SEC. 4. No license shall be issued under the foregoing section unless and until the applicant therefor has furnished proof satisfactory to the Board of Pharmacy of the following: (a) That the applicant is of good moral character or, if the appli- cant be an association or corporation, that the managing officers are of good moral character. (b) That the applicant is equipped as to land, buildings, and para- phernalia properly to carry on the business described in his application. No license shall be granted to any person who has been convicted of a willful violation of any law of the United States, or of any State, relating to opium, coca leaves, cannabis, or other narcotic drugs, or to any person who is a narcotic-drug addict. The Board of Pharmacy may suspend or revoke any license issued by said Board under the provisions of this Act for cause. USE OF OFFICIAL WmrITEN ORDERS SEC. 5. An official written order for any narcotic drug shall be signed in duplicate by the person giving said order or by his duly authorized agent. The original shall be presented to the person who sells or dispenses the narcotic drug or drugs named therein. In event of the acceptance of such order by said person, each party to the transaction shall preserve his copy of such order for a period of two years in such a way as to be readily accessible for inspection by any public officer or employee engaged in the enforcement of this act. It shall be unlawful for a manufacturer or wholesaler to sell, barter, exchange, or give away any preparation or remedy described in sec- tion 6 of the Act of Congress approved December 17, 1914, entitled "An Act to provide for the registration of, with collectors of inter- nal revenue, and to impose a special tax upon all persons who pro- duce, import, manufacture, compound, deal in, dispense, sell, dis- tribute, or give away opium or coca leaves, their salts, derivatives, 787 " Registry num- ber. " "Board of Phar- macy." 34 Stat. 177,1005. 20 D. C. Code §198. Acts prohibited. Manufacturers and wholesalers. Licenses. Fee. Deposit of unex- pended balances. Qualifications for li- censes. Suspension or revo- cation of license. Use of official writ- ten orders. Duplicate order forms. Preservation of or- ders. Sale, etc., except on prescribed written or- der, unlawful. 38 Stat. 789.

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