Typed as spelled and written
Lena Stone Criswell
THE MARLIN DEMOCRAT
Eighteenth Year - Number 40
Marlin, Texas, Wednesday, October 9, 1907
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According to an opinion handed down by the attorney general's department at the
request of State Revenue Agent William J. McDonald, wholesale and retail
druggists can not sell intoxicating liquors without taking out a license and
paying the tax, as required by the Baskin-McGregor law.
The ruling is a sweeping nature, as it is
construed to cover every drug store where prescriptions containing alcohol are
filled or where drugs containing intoxicants are sold. In order to comply
with the new law under this ruling, the attorney general says it will be
necessary for the druggists to pay the tax demanded of a retail liquor dealer.
The question upon which this ruling was
made was raised by the Houston Drug company and submitted by Captain McDonald,
the state revenue agent, to the attorney general for construction. From
the attorney general's department a telegram was received, signed by J. T.
Sluder, the office assistant, stating that the law was construed to apply to
wholesale and retail druggists.
-Houston Post.
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