Chapter 51. To amend the Narcotic Act of Congress, approved December 17, 1914, as amended, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 51.— An Act To amend the Narcotic Act of Congress, approved December 17, 1914, as amended, and for other purposes.January 22, 1927.[[S. 4537](/us/bill/69/s/4537)][[Public, No. 564](/us/pl/69/564).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Narcotic Act, 1914.Sales, etc. That section 2 of the Narcotic Act of Congress, approved December 17, 1914, as amended, be further amended as follows: " Sec. 2. After the last sentence of section 2 add the following:Application of Act to Virgin Islands.Vol. 38, p. 787, amended.
“ The President is further authorized and directed to issue such Executive orders as will permit those persons in the Virgin Islands of the United States lawfully entitled to sell, deal in, dispense, prescribe, and distribute the aforesaid drugs, to obtain said drugs from persons registered under this Act within the continental United States for legitimate medical purposes, without regard to the order forms described in this section.” " Approved, January 22, 1927.