Sec. 22. No license for the sale of spirituous or intoxicating liquor, except of the sixth class, shall be granted to retail druggists or apothecaries. One or more licenses of the sixth class shall be granted annually by the licensing board of cities, or by the mayor and aldermen of cities having no such board, or by the selectmen of towns, to retail druggists or apothecaries who are registered pharmacists actively engaged in business on their own account, upon presentation to the licensing board of the certificate of fitness prescribed by the following section, if it appears that the applicant is a proper person to receive such license, and is not disqualified to receive it under the provisions of sections fifty-three and fifty-four. A registered pharmacist who owns stock of the actual value of at least five hundred dollars in a corporation which has been incorporated for the purpose of carrying on the drug business, and who conducts in person the business of a store of such corporation, shall be considered as actively engaged in business on his own account and as qualified to receive a license for such store.

Sec. 23. The board of registration in pharmacy may, upon the payment by an applicant for a license of the sixth class of a fee of not more than one dollar, issue to him a certificate, which shall not be valid after one year from its date, stating that in the judgment of said board he is a proper person to be entrusted with such license and that the public good will be promoted by the granting thereof. Any registered pharmacist against whom no complaints have been made to said board may be considered a proper person to receive such certificate. If complaint is made, it shall state in writing the reason why a certificate should be withheld.

Sec. 24. A license of the sixth class shall become null and void without any process or decree, if the registered pharmacist to whom it has been granted ceases to conduct his business in person and on his own account, or upon the revocation of his certificate of registration as a pharmacist, unless the registered pharmacist has become unable to so conduct his business or has died, and his business is continued by his wife, widow, executor or administrator under another registered pharmacist.

Sec. 25. Retail druggists and apothecaries shall not sell intoxicating liquor of any kind for medicinal, mechanical or chemical purposes except upon the certificate of the purchaser, which shall state the use for which it is wanted, and which shall be immediately cancelled at the time of sale in such a manner as to show the date of cancellation. They shall not, when making such sales upon the prescription of a physician, be subject to the provisions of the second clause of section seventeen.

Sec. 26. Every retail druggist and apothecary shall keep a book in which he shall enter, at the time of every such sale, the date thereof, the name of the purchaser, the kind, quantity and price of said liquor, the purpose for which it was sold, and the residence by street and number, if there be such, of said purchaser. If such sale is made upon

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the prescription of a physician, the book shall also contain the name of the physician and shall state the use for which said liquor is prescribed and the quantity to be used for such purpose, and shall be cancelled in the manner before provided with reference to certificates. Said book shall be in form substantially as follows:

The certificate mentioned in the preceding section shall be a part of said book and shall not be detached therefrom, and shall be in form substantially as follows:

I wish to purchase

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CERTIFICATE.

and I certify that I am not a minor and that the same is to be used for * Mechanical Chemical * Medicinal purposes. [* Draw a line through the words which do not indicate the purpose of the purchase.]

O Signature,
Cancelled,

Sec. 27. The book, certificates and prescriptions provided for in the two preceding sections and the book provided for in section thirtytwo shall at all times be open to the inspection of the licensing board in cities having such boards and in all other cities and towns, to the inspection of the mayor and aldermen, selectmen, overseers of the poor, shreiffs, constables, police officers and justices of the peace.

Sec. 28. Whoever makes or issues a false or fraudulent certificate or prescription referred to in sections twenty-five and twenty-six shall be punished by a fine of ten dollars.

Sec. 29. Whoever, not being a registered pharmacist, procures a sixth class license for the sale of intoxicating liquors in the name of a registered pharmacist who is dead, or in the name of a registered pharmacist by borrowing, hiring or purchasing the use of his certificate, and who, being himself the owner or manager of the place, shall himself or by his servants sell intoxicating liquor, shall be punished by a fine of not less than fifty nor more than five hundred dollars, and by imprisonment for not less than one nor more than six months. The provisions of section ten of chapter two hundred and twenty shall not apply to such sentence.

LICENSES TO DEALERS IN PAINTS AND CHEMICALS.

Sec. 30. The licensing board, the mayor and aldermen of a city having no licensing board or the selectmen of a town may annually grant a license of the seventh class, for the sale of pure alcohol for mechanical, manufacturing or chemical purposes only, to a dealer in paints or in chemicals who applies therefor, if it appears that the applicant is a proper person to receive such license and that he is actually carrying on business as a dealer in paints or in chemicals.

Sec. 31. A license of the seventh class shall become null and void without any process or decree if the licensee ceases to carry on the business of dealing in paints or in chemicals.

Sec. 32. Every dealer in paints or in chemicals to whom such license is granted shall keep a book in which he shall enter, at the time of every sale of alcohol, the date thereof, the name and residence of the purchaser, his residence by street and number, if there be such, the quantity and price of the alcohol sold, and the purpose for which it is to be used. Said book shall be in form substantially as follows:

IMPORTATION IN ORIGINAL PACKAGE.

Sec. 33. Importers of liquor of foreign production which is imported under authority of the laws of the United States may own, possess, keep or sell such liquor in the original casks or packages in which it was imported and in quantities not less than those in which the laws of the United States require such liquor to be imported, and, when sold, it shall be as pure and unadulterated as when imported.

REGULATION OF LICENSED PLACES.

Sec. 34. The board which grants a license may require the licensee to close permanently all entrances to the licensed premises except those from the public street or streets upon which such premises are situated, and may so specify in the license. In such case, the construction or opening of any such entrance shall of itself make the license void. The board shall require the licensee to remove any screen, blind, shutter, curtain, partition, or painted, ground or stained glass window, or any other obstruction which may interfere with a view of the interior of the licensed premises. The licensee shall not place or maintain, or permit to be placed or maintained, upon any premises used by him for the sale of spirituous or intoxicating liquor under the provisions of his license, any screen, blind, shutter, curtain, partition, or painted, ground or stained glass window, or any other obstruction, nor expose in any window upon said premises any bottle, cask or other vessel containing, or purporting to contain, intoxicating liquor, in such a way as to interfere with a view of the business conducted upon the premises or with a view of the interior of said premises, and the placing or maintaining of any of said obstructions shalf of itself make the license void.

Sec. 35. No license of the first, second or third class shall be granted for the sale of intoxicating liquors in any building or place on the same street as, and within four hundred feet of, any building occupied in whole or in part by a public school; but the provisions of this