Pharmaceutical formulas being a supplementary volume comprising a consolidation of the Medicine-stamp Acts (with historical notes), formulas for known, admitted, and approved remedies, an Australian hospitals formulary and many other recipes.

Date:
1904
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Credit: Pharmaceutical formulas being a supplementary volume comprising a consolidation of the Medicine-stamp Acts (with historical notes), formulas for known, admitted, and approved remedies, an Australian hospitals formulary and many other recipes. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    provisions of the said recited Act and this Act, to seize the same, and send or deliver the same to the said Commissioners at the head office at Somerset Place [now House], who are hereby authorised to reward the officer or officers making any such seizure in such manner as to them shall seem fit. X. [1802. Sec. i3.]-Persons fraudulently taking off labels after the medicines are sold, or using such labels a second time, &c, shall forfeit £20 And to prevent the cover, wrapper, or label, and the mark or stamp thereon, hereby directed to be pasted, stuck, fastened, or affixed to every packet, box, bottle, pot, phial, or other inclosure containing any drug, herb, medicine, medicament, or other preparation or composition aforesaid, from being made use of again after they have been sold and disposed of, to be affixed to other packets, boxes, bottles, pots, phials, or other inclosures containing any drugs, herbs, medicines, medicaments, or other preparations or compositions aforesaid, by which practices his Majesty's revenue might be lessened or diminished ; be it therefore enacted, that if any person or persons shall, from and after the first day of September, one thousand eight hundred and two, fraudulently cut, tear, or take off any mark or stamp in respect whereof or whereby any duties are hereby payable or de- noted to be paid or payable to his Majesty on any packet, box, bottle, pot, or phial, or other inclosure containing any drug, herb, medicine, medicament, or other preparation or composition aforesaid, subject to the duties hereby im- posed, after the same shall have been sold or disposed of as aforesaid, or shall fraudulently paste, stick, fasten, or affix to any such packet, box, bottle, pot, or phial any cover, wrapper, or label so marked and stamped as aforesaid, the same having once been made use of for the purpose aforesaid, or shall utter, vend, or expose to sale any packet, box, bottle, pot, phial, or other inclosure containing any drug, herb, medicine, medicament, or other preparation or composition aforesaid, with such cover, wrapper, or label so fraudulently cut, torn, or taken off as aforesaid, and pasted, stuck, fastened, or affixed thereto, all and every person and persons so offending in any of the particulars before mentioned shall for every such offence forfeit and pay the sum of twenty pounds, to be recovered and applied as hereinafter is directed. XI. [1802. Sec. 14.]—Persons selling or buying labels for the purpose of being used a second time, or selling any packet with such a label, shall forfeit £20 And to prevent persons from fraudulently selling or buying any covers, wrappers, or labels which have been before made use of for denoting any of the duties by this Act imposed, of any packets, boxes, bottles, pots, phials, or other inclosures wherein, any drugs, herbs, medicines, medica- ments, or other preparations or compositions aforesaid shall have been contained, and sold and disposed of with such covers, wrappers, or labels pasted, stuck, fastened, or affixed thereto, be it further enacted, that if any person or persons shall, from and after the first day of September, one thousand eight hundred and two, sell or buy any such cover, wrapper, or label which hath before been made use of for the inclosing any packet, it c