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An Act to be entitled An Act to prohibit the employment of Slaves and Free Persons of Colour from compounding or dispensing of medicines in Druggists and Apothecaries' stores, and to compel Druggists and Apothecaries to keep arsenic and other dangerous poisons under lock and key, etc. 1835 268 (1835)

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State-in violation of this law, and be liable and subject to
the pains and penalties herein prescribed.
JOSEPH DAY,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
ROBERT M. ECHOLS,
President of the Senate.
Assented to, 26th Dec. 1835.
WILLIAM SCHLEY, Governor.
AN ACT to be entitled An Act to prohibit the employment
of Slaves and Free Persons of Colour from compound-
ing or dispensing of medicines in Druggists and Apothe-
caries' stores, and to compel Druggists and Apothecaries
to keep arsenic and other dangerous poisons under lock
and key, &c.
SEc. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House ofRe-
presentatives of the State of Georgia in General .dssem
bly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the
same, That from and after the first day of January next,
any person or persons having in his, her or their employ-
ment any slave or free person of colour in any apothecary
shop or druggist store in this State, in the apothecary branch
of their business, in putting up, compounding or dispensing,
purchasing or vending'any drug or drugs,. medicines of any
description, kihd or sort whatsoever, shall be guilty of a
high misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof in any court
having cognizance of the same, shall be fined the sum of
one hundred dollars for the first offence, and for every sub-
sequent offence shall be fined in the sum of five hundred

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