continuing in business, shall fail or neglect to procure his annual regis tration, or any person who shall willfully make any false representation to procure registration for himself or any other person, shall, for every such offense, be liable to a penalty of fifty dollars: Provided, that nothing in this act shall apply to, nor in any manner interfere with the business of any physician, or prevent him from supplying to his patients such articles as may seem to him proper, nor with the making or vending of patent or proprietary medicines, or medicines placed in sealed packages with the name of the contents and of the pharmacist or physician by whom prepared or compounded, nor with the sale of the usual domestic remedies by retail dealers, nor with the exclusively wholesale business of any dealers, except as hereinafter provided: and, provided, further that no part of this section shall be so construed as to give the right to any physician to furnish any intoxicating liquor as a beverage, on pre scription or otherwise. *13. Penalty for adulteration. 13. No person shall add to or remove from any drug, medicine, chemical or pharmaceutical preparation, any ingredient or material for the purpose of adulteration or substitution, or which shall deteriorate the quality, commercial value or medicinal effect, or which shall alter the nature or composition of such drug, medicine, chemical or pharmaceutical preparation, so that it will not correspond to the recognized tests of identity or purity. Any person who shall thus willfully adulterate or alter, or cause to be adulterated or altered, or shall sell or offer for sale any such adulterated or altered drug, medicine, chemical or pharmaceutical preparation, or any person who shall substitute or cause to be substituted one material for another, with the intention to defraud or deceive the purchaser, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and be liable to prosecution under this act. If convicted, he shall be liable to all the costs of the action and all expenses incurred by the board of pharmacy, in connection therewith, and, for the first offense, be liable to a fine of not less than fifty dollars nor more than one hundred dollars; and, for each subsequent offense, a fine of not less than seventy-five, nor more than one hundred and fifty dollars. On complaint being entered, the board of pharmacy is hereby empowered to employ an analyst or chemist expert, whose duty it shall be to examine into the socalled adulteration, substitution or alteration, and report upon the result of his investigation; and if said report justify such action, the board shall duly cause the prosecution of the offender, as provided in this law. *14. Selling poison without marking--penalty. §14. No person shall sell at retail any poisons, commonly recognized as such, and especially aconite, arsenic, belladonna, biniodide of mercury, carbolic acid, chlora hydrate, chloroform, conium, corrosive sublimate, creosote, croton oil, cyanide of potassium, digitalis, hydrocyanic acid, laudanum, morphine, nux vomica, oil of bitter almonds, opium, oxalic acid, strych nine sugar of lead, sulphate of zinc, white precipitate, red precipitate, without affixing to the box, bottle, vessel, or package containing the same, and to the wrapper or cover thereof, a label bearing the name of the article, and the word "poison" distinctly shown, with the name and place of business of the seller: who shall not deliver any of said poisons to any person under the age of fifteen years; nor shall he deliver any of said poisons to any person, without satisfying himself that such poison is to be used for a legitimate purpose: Provided, that nothing herein contained shall apply to the dispensing of physicians' prescriptions of any of the poisons or articles aforesaid. Any person failing to comply with the re. quirements of this section shall be liable to a penalty of five dollars for each and every such offense. *15. Suits--how brought-penalty-proceeds. § 15. All suits for the recovery of the several penalties prescribed in this act shall be prosecuted in the name of the "People of the State of Illinois.” in any court having jurisdiction; and it shall be the duty of the State's at torney of the county where such offense is committed to prosecute all persons violating the provisions of this act, upon proper complaint being made. All penalties, collected under the provisions of this act shall inure one-half to the board of pharmacy, and the remainder to the school fund of the county in which the suit was prosecuted and judgment obtained. AN ACT to revise the law in relation to plats. [Approved March 21, 1874. In force July 1, 1874.] 1. Laying out towns, etc. SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: Whenever the owner of lands shall wish to subdivide the same into two or more parts for the purpose of laying out a town, or making any addition to any city, village or town, or of re-subdividing any lots or blocks therein, he shall cause the same to be surveyed and a plat thereof to be made by the county surveyor or some other competent surveyor, which plat shall particularly describe and set forth all the streets, alleys, common or public grounds, and all the in and out lots or fractional lots or blocks within, adjoining or adjacent to the land so divided, giving the names, widths, courses and extent of all such streets and alleys, and numbering all lots and blocks by progressive numbers, giving their precise length and width. Reference shall also be made upon the plat to some known and permanent monument from which future surveys may be made, or, if no such monument shall exist within convenient distance, the surveyor shall, at the time of making his survey, plant, and fix in such manner that the same shall not be moved by frost, at the corner of some public ground, or, if there be none, then at the corner of some lot or block most convenient for reference, a good and sufficient stone, to be furnished by the person for whom the survey is made, and designate upon the plat the point where the same may be found. [R, S. 1845, p. 115, 88 17, 18, 19; Lull v. City of Chicago, 68 Ill. 518; Gebhardt v. Reeves, 75 Ill. 301; Deery v. Cray, 10 Wall. (U. S.) 263; Zearing v. Řaber, 74 Ill. 409; I. C. R. R. Co. v. I. & I. C. Ry. Co., 85 Ill. 212. 2. Certificate of surveyor-acknowledgment-record. §2. The plat having been completed, shall be certified by the surveyor and acknowledged by the owner of the land, or his attorney duly authorized, in the same manner as deeds of land are required to be acknowledged. The certificate of the surveyor and of acknowledgment, together with the plat, shall be recorded in the recorder's office of the county in which the land is situated, and such acknowledgment and record shall have like effect and certified copies thereof and of such plat or of any plat heretofore acknowledged and certified according to law, may be used in evidence to the same extent and with like effect, as in case of deeds. [R. S. 1845, p. 115, § 20. 3. Dedication-effect of. 3. The acknowledgment and recording of such plat shall be held in law and in equity to be a conveyance in fee simple of such portions of the premises platted as are marked or noted on such plat as donated or granted to the public, or any person, religious society, corporation or body politic, and as a general warranty [*772] against the donor, his heirs and representatives to such donee or grantee for their use or for the use and purposes therein named or intended, and for no other use or purpose. And the premises intended for any street, alley, way, common or other public use in any city, village or town, or addition thereto, shall be held in the corporate name thereof in trust to and for the uses and purposes set forth or in tended. [R. S. 1845, p. 115, § 21; Town of Princeton v. Templeton, 71 Ill. 68; City of Chicago v. Wright, 69 Ill. 318 Village of Princeville v. Auten, 77 Ill. 325; C. R 1.& P. R. R. Co. v. City of Joliet, 79 Ill. 25; Zearing v. Raber, 74 Ill. 409: Trustees v Havens, 11 Ill. 554; Hunter v Middleton, 13 Ill. 50: Manly v. Gibson, 3, Ill. 308; Leech v Waugh, 24 Ill. 229; Stephani v. Brown, 40 Ill. 428; I. B. & W. R. Co. v. Hartley, 67 Ill. 439; St. John v. Quitzow, 72 Ill. 334; Gebhardt'v. Reeves, 75 111.301; Chicago v. McGinn, 51 Ill. 272; McWilliams v. Morgan, 61 l. 89; Belleville v. Stookey, 23 Ill. 441; Godfrey v. City of Alton, 12 Ill. 29; Marcy v. Taylor, 19 111.634; Kelly v. Chicago, 48 II 388; McIntyre v. Storey, 80 ill. 127; Waugh v. Leech. 28 Ill. 488; Jacksonville v. J. Ry. Co., 67 Ill. 540; Moses v. P. & F. W. & C. R. R. Co.. 21 Ill. 516; Murphy v. Chicago, 29 Ill. 279 Kellinger v. R. R. Co., 50 N. Y. 206; Gridley v. Hopkins, 84 Ill. 528; I. C. R. R. Co v. I. & I. C. Ry. Co., 85 Ill. 212. 4. Neglect to plant corner-stone, etc. §4. Whoever shall lay out any town or make any addition to any city, village or town, or re-subdivide any lots or blocks therein, and neglect to plant any corner stone when required by this act, or shall survey the same or cause it to be surveyed in any other manner than that which is prescribed in this act, shall be fined in any sum not less than 25 nor exceeding $100. S. 1845, p. 116, § 24. [R. $ 5, 5. Penalty for selling without plat recorded, etc. Whoever shall sell or offer for sale, or lease for any time exceeding five years, any lot or block in any town, city or village, or any addition thereto, or any re-subdivision of any lot or block therein, before all the requisitions of this act have been complied with, shall be fined $25 for each lot or block or part thereof so disposed of, offered for sale of leased. [R. S. 1845, p. 116, § 25. VACATION OF PLATS. 6. Of the whole plat. $6. Any such plat may be vacated by the owner of the premises at any time before the sale of any lot therein, by a written instrument declaring the same to be vacated, executed, ac. knowledged or proved, and recorded in like manner as deeds of land; which declaration being duly recorded, shall operate to destroy the force and effect of the recording of the plat so vacated, and to divest all pub. Ilic rights in the streets, alleys and public grounds, and all dedications laid out or described in such plat. When lots have been sold, the plat may be vacated in the manner herein provided by all the owners of lots in such plat joining in the execution of such writing. [L. 1847, p. 1661. 7. Of part of plat. § 7. Any part of a plat may be vacated in the manner provided in the preceding section, and subject to the conditions therein prescribed: Provided, such vacation shall not abridge or destroy any of the rights or privileges of other proprietors in such plat : And, provided, further, that nothing contained in this section shall authorize the closing or obstructing of any public highway laid out according to law. [L. 1847, p. 167, § 3; Leech v. Waugh, 24 Ill. 230. 8. Canceling plat of record. § 8. When any plat or part thereof is vacated, the recorder in whose office the plat is recorded shall, upon the recording of such vacation, write in plain letters across the plat or part so vacated the word " vacated," and shall also make a reference on the same to the volume and page in which the instrument of vacation is recorded. PLATS TO BE RECORDED, ETC. 9. Plats of highways, etc., to be made and recorded. $9. Whenever any highway, road, street, alley, public ground, toll-road, railroad or canal is laid out, located, opened, widened or extended, or the location thereof altered, it shall be the duty of the commissioners, authorities, officers, persons or corporations, public or private, laying out, locating, opening, widening, extending or altering the same, to cause a plat thereof showing the width, courses and extent thereof, and making such reference to known and established corners or monuments that the location thereof may be ascertained, to be made, and recorded in the office of the recorder of the county in which the premises taken or used for the same, or any part thereof, are situated, within six months after such highway, road, street, alley, public ground, toll-road, railroad or canal is laid out, located, opened, widened or extended, or the location thereof altered; and when any highway, road, street, alley, public ground, toll-road, railroad or canal is vacated, the order, ordinance or other declaration vacating the same shall be in like manner recorded. This act shall not be construed to alter or affect any law specifically providing for the recording of any such plat, or to require the same to be recorded sooner than is so specifically provided; except that any requirements to record such plat in any other place than is [*773] provided herein shall not excuse the parties from complying with this act. Whoever shall refuse or neglect to comply with this section shall forfeit $25, and the like sum for every month he shall continue in such refusal or neglect after conviction therefor, to be recovered before any justice of the peace of the county, in the name of the county, one-half to the use of the county and the other half to the use of the person complaining. [R. S. 1845, p. 487, § 33. 10. Prosecuting offenders. § 10. Whenever it shall come to the knowledge of the recorder of deeds of any county that any of the pro |